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Digital Fieldwork

ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.

The British Library – Digital Collections

The national library of the United Kingdom which give access to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. Provides information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities. Collection of over 170 million items includes artifacts from every age of written civilization.

Gale Primary Sources – Archives Unbound

Since its inception in 2009, the Archives Unbound program has published more than 500 collections. The roots of the program are in microfilm, and offers targeted collections of interest to scholars engaged in scholarly research.

Endangered Archives Programme

The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. Thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we have provided grants to more than 400 projects in 90 countries worldwide, in over 100 languages and scripts.

NewspaperArchive

NewspaperArchive.com is the first commercial newspaper archive online. The archives contain more than 15,675+ different titles from every US state and twenty-eight other countries around the world. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword, date, place, and title making it easy for you to quickly see if we have the article you’re seeking.

The West African Arabic Manuscript Database – University of California Berkeley

WAAMD is a bi-lingual database that was developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s to describe a collection of Arabic manuscripts in southern Mauritania (Boutilimit). It subsequently has been used to compile a union catalogue of other West African collections, including manuscript libraries in West Africa, Europe and the United States.

African Online Digital Library – Michigan State University

AODL provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. It brings together tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages, many of which are contained in curated thematic galleries and teaching resources.

Center for Research Libraries – Digital Collections

Scholars and researchers from CRL member libraries have use of the CRL collections, at no charge, through interlibrary loan. The loan period is unlimited, but materials may be subject to recall after a certain period if a scholar at another CRL institution requests the materials.