Repositories & archives

This list is in progress. Please feel free to suggest further links in the comments.

See also C18th, Manuscripts and Images, Digital Humanities Projects, and Open Access Repositories.

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Archives
Online, open-access repositories

Archives:

• ArchiveGrid: “over 5 million records describing archival materials [from] over 1,000 different archival institutions”
• Archives Hub: “descriptions of archives, including links to digital content, held at over 300 institutions across the UK”
• National Archives: “find an archive in the UK and beyond“

Online, open-access repositories:

• Digital Book Index: “90,000 eTexts”
• Google Books
• HathiTrust Digital Library: “millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world”
• Internet Archive: “a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more”
  • Internet Archive eBooks and Texts: “The Internet Archive offers over 15,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account”
  • Open Library
• The Online Books Page: “listing over 2 million free books on the web”
• Open Culture: “the best cultural and educational media on the web”
• Project Gutenberg: also comes in Canadian
• Representative Poetry Online (RPO): University of Toronto
• Wikimedia Commons: “a collection of 43,939,668 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute”
• World Digital Library, Library of Congress: “19,147 items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000”

[Linking image on main page: Card catalogue, UBC library, Paul Joseph, 2009, Wikimedia Commons.]