Digital Archive Collections: World

An online finding aid and scholarly community in the field of eighteenth-century literary and historical studies. Resources are peer-reviewed and cataloged to make them accessible.

Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Documents include pre-18th century - 20th century.

Sponsored by the University of Alicante, this site is the largest open access repository of Spanish language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world.

Includes full-text editions of primary sources, such as the journals of the Houses of Parliament. Most documents are from between 1500 and 1850.

Offers access to 30,000 images from various medieval books and selected exhibition items. Also includes the facility to "turn the pages" of many important works, including the Magna Carta and Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks.

A digital library that assembles early Chinese texts, many of which have English translations.

A project to gather, archive and produce materials related to the Cold War.

A growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.

This site provides links to other primary source archives that primarily include documents from European history. The site is searchable by country, language, period, subject, and the type of source.

A multi-lingual online collection of millions of digital items, Europeana includes treasures from European museums, libraries, archives, and multi-media collections. Among the institutions represented are the British Library, the Louvre, and the Rijksmuseum.

The digital collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France include 120,000 scanned items; 65,000 full-text volumes; 1,000 audio recordings; and 110,000 images from French history.

A set of collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts, maps, and articles on a wide variety of historical areas. Organized by geographical area and time period, the site includes links to primary sources from not only the Western world, but Africa and the Islamic and Eastern world as well.

Contains 18th and 19th digital versions of several well known English journals, including Notes and Queries, Annual Register, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Contains primary and secondary sources in the public domain.

Sponsored by Harvard University, the IHP includes more than 600 Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts.

A database of all known people of Scotland between 1093 and 1314 mentioned in over 8600 contemporary documents.

Currently includes almost 35,000 places, mostly in the Ancient Greek or Roman worlds. Ancient Near East and medieval places are planned to be included in the future. Pleiades allows the user to find sites by name or by using a zoomable map.

Images from the collection of the New York Public Library.

A project of the Library of Congress, UNESCO, and various institutions from around the world, this site provides digital access to rare and unique documents from a wide variety of cultures. Formats included are books, journals, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, films, and sound recordings.