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This page lists resources for digitized historical primary sources. Resources containing books, archives/manuscripts and mixed collections are included. Databases for particular primary source types, newspapers, periodicals, personal writings, images, films, etc., are listed on their own pages in this guide. A list of primary sources types with links is given at Outline of Primary Sources for History. We have a list of digital collections, both Harvard subscription databases and free Web collections at Online Primary Source Collections for History. It is still in an early stage of development.
HathiTrust Digital Library, Internet Archive, Google Book Search offer books and periodicals digitized from numerous libraries. Each of these three digital libraries allows searching full text over their entire collections.
HathiTrust Digital Library is a huge collection of digitized books and periodicals. Each full text item is linked to a standard library catalog record, thus providing good metadata and subject terms. Most items pre-1925 will be full text viewable. After 1925, a much smaller number will be full text viewable. You can search within non-full text viewable works and obtain the pages numbers where your search terms occur. Most US, and some state, government documents will be full text viewable.
In the first (Full Text) Advanced Full Text Search field, you can put terms for a full text search. Phrases and proper names work best (exact phrase). If you search two or more separate keywords, when you search within particular volumes, those pages containing all the keywords will sort first.
Full Text Search Options. You can search Internet Archive for texts bearing a specified Subject term, Title, or Author (Creator). Shift from Search metadata to Search text contents.
By no means are all periodical issues and other items included in collections. In these cases periodical titles can be full text searched using the title:American Machinist AND "Spring breakage has been eliminated" method.
In Advanced search you can search say Description: "South Asia", and at the top left of the results page choose Media type: Collection. When on a Collection page, you can search within by metadata or full text
The Making of the Modern World offers full text searching of works on economics and business published from 1450-1914 from the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School and the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library. Includes material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, public health, trade and transport. A great deal of more recently acquired material in the Kress Collection is not included in The Making of the Modern World.
The Online Books Page arranges electronic texts by Library of Congress call numbers and is searchable (but not full text searchable). Includes books not in Google Books, HathiTrust, or Internet Archive. Has many other useful features.
There is no one way to find digitized primary sources on the Internet. The following offers methods for finding online historical resources which are more focused than a simple Google search. Most find items within digital collections. A few search the full text.
The Digital Public Library of America offers textual, visual, and sound resources contributed by numerous libraries, archives, and museums. Searches catalog records, not full text, and links to the items on the contributors' websites. Contains many individual items, such as letters and photographs, from digital collections.
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) searches metadata and some full text, from over 2000 sources of academic open access documents. About 60% of the documents indexed are available full text. The metadata searched is provided by the source and tagging is often inexact. This is a vast collection of documents and has much not available elsewhere.
Use Browsing to narrow your search to subject area (e.g., Literature) or Document type (e.g., Manuscript, broadly construed). Open Browsing and choose-Dewey Decimal (for Subject), choose major subject to see next finer level, twice. After choosing View Records add a search term to the Subject Term or Document Type:
EROMM: European Register of Microform and Digital Masters searches its own database of records of printed and handwritten material in digital form or on microfilm from institutions worldwide and offers web search for such material.
Numerous digitized collections of primary sources have records in WorldCat. These collections of primary sources are often swamped by ebooks on the same subject. There is no one perfect method for finding them, but the following may be tried for any topic. Always find the proper Subject terms for your topic and search using those as well as any keywords. Use Advanced search. Detailed instructions for searching WorldCat.
OAISTER is a subset of WorldCat for open access online academic material. It can be useful in separating digitized primary sources from the numerous ebooks in WolrldCat. It includes digitized books and journal articles, open access publications, manuscript/archival material, photographic images, audio and visual files, data sets, and theses. It includes such a vast range of resources that digitized archival and other primary sources are lost in the abundant results if a broad topical term is used. So it is best to use a narrow term or proper name. Thus "Act-Up" yields archival letters. It is possible to limit a search to Archival Material, but I have not found this to be useful.
Because there are so many subscription databases, and because each database often includes numerous subcollections, it is difficult to know which databases may contain the sources you want. For example, Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 (ProQuest History Vault) includes U.S. State Department Office of the Executive Secretariat Crisis Files. Part 1, the Berlin Crisis, 1957-1963. Detailed instructions for finding these subcollections.
Many sources digitized by local public libraries, historical societies and other institutions may be found via the Digital Public Library of America, the state/regional portals, and worldwide, via the tools listed below. But some will not be findable. For local sources one may visit the websites of nearby institutions.
Endangered Archives Programme offers digitized material (manuscripts, rare printed books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, photographs and sound recordings) (largely pre -mid-20th century) at risk of loss or decay in countries worldwide. When looking fo.r material on a country, use Search all endangered archives. Do not rely on Related places or Project country (on the left).
The Liberated Africans Project contains information on Africans liberated by international efforts, 1808-1896, to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. Includes material in the British National Archives and the Sierra Leone National Archives
The Glenbow Archives online collections (1860s-1990s) offers archival records relating to Calgary, southern Alberta and Western Canada. Special focus: indigenous history, Mounted Police, pioneer life, ranching and agriculture, the petroleum industry, politics (especially the farmers movement), labour and unions, women, the arts (especially theatre), and business.
Central and Eastern European Online Library is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 441 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
Europeana: Cultural collections of Europe is the largest European search engine for digitized books, images, manuscripts, etc. Searches catalogs records of material contributed by numerous repositories. Not full text searchable; links to full text. Similar to the Digital Library of America. Search tips.
MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe searches digital collections at the collection rather than the item level from European museums, archives and libraries. Contains material not in Base, Europeana or EROMM
Classiques Garnier Numrique offers the Bibliographie de la littrature franaise, together with collections of French language primary texts and reference works, including French and francophone literature (Europe, Africa, Indian Ocean, Americas, Asia) and dictionaries and grammars from the 9th to the 20th century.
Gallica includes the full-text for more than 100,000 volumes and 300,000 images covering the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century material. Included are dictionaries and encyclopedias, journals, manuscripts, recordings and images.
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek offers textual and visual resources contributed by numerous libraries, archives, and museums. Searches catalog records, not full text, and links to the items on the contributors' websites. Contains many individual items, such as letters and photographs, from digital collections.
Digital Resources for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies describes online resources available via Harvard digital platforms or produced and freely accessible outside the Harvard system
--Note the Open Access link on the Archives page. At Please find our list of open access resources for research in Soviet History there is a large list of resources.
Searching Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early American Imprints.
Since spelling in early books is variable and the long s (which looks like an f) is often used, it is important to try variant spellings and the wild card feature. ECCO offers fuzzy searching in Advanced Search
Both Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) contain full text of most books published 1475-1800 in Great Britain and North America and books published in English anywhere.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) offers full text for English language works dated 1700-1800. Uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. Searchable by words and phrases based on the OCR text. Many 18th century American imprints are not included in ECCO because they are available in Early American Imprints (EAI) (next).
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