Publicly Available Collections
- Biodiversity Heritage LibraryFind freely available legacy literature of biodiversity digitized by a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
- Europeana CollectionsExplore 58,246,083 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
- F&M Library Digital CollectionsDigital collections of Franklin and Marshall College archives, special collections, and scholarship
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsThe Library of Congress Digital Collections are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' collections.
- Medical Heritage LibraryDigitization collaborative including major medical libraries
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsOpen access to over 800,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, and photographs.
F&M Databases
Selected F&M databases for finding historical newspapers, books, and other material. Visit the History library guide for a more comprehensive list.
- Accessible Archives This link opens in a new windowPrimary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals. Includes Godey's Ladies Book (1830-1880), Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800), Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (1860-1865), African American Newspapers: The 19th Century.
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758-1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829-1922).
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowAccess the digital images of every page of books published in the United Kingdom and elsewhere during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowHistorical access to the New York Times (1851-2015), Chicago Tribune (1849-1996), Los Angeles Times (1881-1995), Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-2001), and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1786-2003).
Recent access to the New York Times (2008- two months ago) and Wall Street Journal (2008- two months ago).
