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.
This page:
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.]
