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Liberty Fund

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Liberty Fund is a private educational foundation established to enrich the understanding and appreciation of the complex nature of a society of free and responsible individuals.

Liberty Fund publishes insightful books, conducts engaging conferences, and offers thought-provoking online resources. These programs focus on the intellectual heritage of individual liberty from ancient times through our own. Liberty Fund does not engage in political activity or advocacy, nor in policy making. Learn More

Through the online sources, you can explore Smith’s life and works with access to a wide variety of educational materials that help you learn about and teach concepts central to Adam Smith; Econlib is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty through a combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought; Law & Liberty focuses on the classical liberal tradition of law and political thought and how it shapes a society of free and responsible individuals; The Online Library of Liberty (OLL) offers one of the world’s most extensive digital libraries of scholarly works focused on individual liberty.

Free to view pages on the British Newspaper Archive

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The British Library and the British Newspaper Archive are committed to making historical resources available to more and more people, and the introduction of free to view pages marks a significant milestone in this commitment. Following this link, you will find how to access and search through the free to view pages.

Now, with one million pages made free to view today, consisting of 150 titles and spanning the years 1720-1880 more and more people will be able to search the unparalleled resource which is offered by the British Newspaper Archive, in partnership with the British Library.

Over the next three years, we will see a total of 3.7 million free to view pages being added to The Archive, with the aim of shedding light on the diverse content held by the British Library. Learn more.

Biblissima

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Biblissima is an online digital library, which provides easy and coordinated access to documentation on manuscripts and early printed books, the texts contained therein, their circulation and their readers, from the 8th to 18th centuries (digitisations of early documents, documentary databases, editions, as well as tools to understand these documents and to produce new data). It is equipment for research, learning and diffusion, meant both for scholars and for a wider audience.

The Biblissima Portal provides unified access to a set of digital data on medieval manuscripts, incunabula and early printed books produced by the partners of the Biblissima consortium.

The IIIF collections search engine (a prototype application) allows you to search across IIIF-compliant manuscripts and rare books dated before 1800 coming from many digital libraries in the world. It is a work in progress, the platform is updated and enriched on a regular basis.
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Svenska dagstidningar

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Svenska dagstidningar offers a collection of around 27 million pages from different swedish newspapers, including but not limited to Aftonbladet, Dagens industri, Dagens nyheter and Expressen. This collection and resouce is maintained by the National Library of Sweden. Due to copyright, only material older than 115 years is acessible online. Learn more

Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks Project (IHSP)

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The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. The project is maintained by Fordham University in New York. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a “western civilization” approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women’s history and LGBT studies.

The project however does not contain images of the actual text and therefore should not be used as a primary source for research. It can be useful as a place to browse historical documents before finding better versions of them.

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