KWABA is the digital library of the National Library of Côte d'Ivoire. It provides Internet users with treasures of national interest and remarkable pieces kept at the BNCI. Bibliothèque Nationale de Côte d’Ivoire www.bnci.ci Tél: +225 20 21 35 34

Identifies, preserves, and makes accessible records and artifacts of enduring historical value to the state and serves as the official repository for records created by state agencies

(content can be used for instruction and personal research - request permission for other uses) An electronically accessible repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people.

Alaska's Digital Archives presents a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from archives, museums and libraries throughout our state.

Home of the Alaska State Library in Juneau, AK. Part of the Alaska State Libraries, Archives, and Museums, a division of the Department of Education & Early Development.

Providing access to unique digital research materials from UC Santa Barbara Library

Collections The American Antiquarian Society aims to collect one example of everything printed in what was once British North America before the year 1877 (and a few collections extend through 1900), as well as select manuscripts. In two centuries of collecting, AAS has accumulated some four million…

Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.

The AHC is actively engaged in mass digitizing its most prominent holdings to allow for remote researcher access to collection material. Our Digital Collections website showcases material from all of our collections.

In addition to these digital collections, a growing number of collections are now available online by request. Please contact the ALA Archives at (217) 333-7841 or ala-archives@library.illinois.edu if you would like access to these materials. The ALA Archives makes digital versions of collections a…

American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

Japanese collection of digitized books with no copyright.

Arabic Collections Online is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. Funded by New York University Abu Dhabi, this project aims to expose 23,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions over a period of five years.

(Arxiu de Revistes Catalanes Antigues)- (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 ES) An open access portal that includes closed periodicals that have been represented in Catalan culture and society.

 "Maryland State Archives is presented here for fair use in the public domain." When this material is used, in whole or in part, proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives. PLEASE NOTE: Rights assessment for the associated source material is the responsibility of the user.

The mission of Arizona Archives Online (AAO) is to provide free public access to descriptions of archival collections, preserved and made accessible by Arizona repositories, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums. Through the collaboration of the Arizo…

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Digital Library includes a catalog of images and scientific nomenclature of plants, animals, minerals and biotic communities of the Sonoran Desert region.

Arizona State Library, Archives & Records COVID-19 Response – Temporarily suspending all in-person services, while maintaining our statutory responsibilities

The State Documents Depository maintains a central, permanent, and publicly accessible collection of state documents and publications housed at the Arkansas State Library. The State and Local Government Publications Clearinghouse program provides access to these publications on a local level by distributing copies of the documents to a statewide network of designated state depository libraries.

With more than 200 years of Arkansas history available at the Arkansas State Archives, we are here to preserve and make history available to you. Here, you can find research sources, search historical records and browse archival collections.

Welcome to the website of Austrian Literature Online. Thousands of digital books - most of them related to Austria - are freely available to you. If you consider that any important books are missing in our library or if you need a digital copy yourself, please use…

Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy at Yale's  Lillian Goldman Law Library

Digitized historical materials from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. Learn more about the digital collections.

Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) in München ist die zentrale Landesbibliothek des Freistaates Bayern und eine der bedeutendsten Forschungsbibliotheken in Europa.

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is one of the world’s largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts and is Yale’s principal repository for literary archives, early

 Wikipedia says this is the oldest and largest Belorussian electronic library, incorporated in 1996.

Catalogs & Databases

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Created to preserve and make available the local history of Birmingham and the surrounding area.

(CC BY-SA 3.0) - The National Digital Library is part of the National Library Foundation, and provides documents in the public domain or with permission.

Read newspapers, journals, electronic books, and more without leaving your computer.

A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present.

Calisphere is your gateway to digital collections from California’s great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 2,000,000 images, texts, and recordings. Watch an introductory video to learn more.

Welcome to our new digital collections platform!
This system is still under development and we welcome any and all feedback. If you have suggestions, want to report an issue, or provide general feedback, please complete this form.

CRL digitizes materials from our collections to support research and teaching. CRL also negotiates favorable terms with publishers for member institutions to acquire major electronic resources locally.

Chicago Public Library’s digital collections document life in Chicago through archival images, documents and artifacts.

Photos Maps Architectural Plans Art Subject Index A to Z

An online library of photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Massachusetts.

The Hemeroteca Digital, site of the Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa (HML), aims to build a digital library of newspapers and magazines that have fallen into the public domain.

Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (The Digital Library of Dutch Literature is a collection of primary and secondary information on Dutch language and literature in its historical, societal and cultural context.)

The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.

Through its digital collections, dLOC offers public access to a wide range of information, including historical materials that may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes dLOC does not endorse the views expressed in such materials.

The Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative based at the University of Georgia Libraries that collaborates with Georgia’s Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to key information resources on Georgia history, culture, and life.

The Maine State Archives, a bureau within the Department of Secretary of State, maintains approximately 95 million pages of official State records considered to be permanently valuable. These include maps from the Land Office, photographs from the Dept. of Economic Development, trademarks registered…

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.

(CC0 1.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0)  the platform for digitized rare books from Swiss libraries

Collections include images of photographs, postcards, cartoons and documents representing people, places and things in and around Evansville, Indiana.

MedlinePlus Genetics provides information about the effects of genetic variation on human health. Learn about genetic conditions, genes, chromosomes, and more.

Books in the fields of art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities for both general and specialized audiences.

The entire library of art assets from the game, has been made freely available, dedicated to the public domain. Code from the game client is included to help developers work with the assets. All of it can be downloaded and used by anyone, for any purpose. (But: use it for good.)

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world’s treasures online.

Local History & Archives

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. This guide explains HathiTrust and its benefits to the Pitt community, as well as providing many resources in regards to searching, downloading, researching, the collections themselves, and more.

Catalog Searches for Archives, Photos, Books, Pamphlets, Objects & Artwork

Online access to over 32,750 images from 73 photographic collections. Use of the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections are expressly allowed for non-commercial, personal, or research use only. Transmission or reproduction of protected items beyond what is allowed by fair use will require the written permission of copyright owners. more...

The Library & Archives Digital Collections Portal contains more than 55,000 digitized posters, photographs, texts, sound recordings, and moving images from Hoover collections, with new items frequently added. Some 44,000 in the public domain, or for which we have permission from the copyright holder…

The Huntington Digital Library is the online database of Huntington Library digitized materials. It aims to support the research needs of Huntington readers and staff and to share digitized resources with a broader community. New content is regularly added, yet only a fraction of the Huntington Library’s more than eleven million items is available in digitized form.

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation promotes the history of botany through its collections, research, exhibitions, publications, and services.

Here you'll find more than 65,000 digital images that are available for research, with more added every week.

Indiana Memory is made possible through the collaborative efforts of academic libraries, public libraries, historical societies, museums, and archives to create and share their digital collections reflecting Indiana’s cultural heritage. These collections reside on CONTENTdm servers across the state.…

Public Domain Databases containing sources for the mining, mineral and metallurgical sectors in the context of sustainable development. There are 668 databases in the public domain on this site.

The INHA (Institut national d'histoire de l'art) digital library provides online access to documents from the ENSBA, BCMN and INHA collections

Bibliothèque numérique de l’INHA

JoCoHistory is a collaborative presentation of the history from the Johnson County Museum, Johnson County Library and fellow JoCoHistory partners. Explore historical photographs and documents about the people, places and organizations of Johnson County, Kansas, from the 19th century to the present.

Primary sources online from the Kansas Historical Society.

The Kentucky Digital Library is built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning by providing access to shared digital archival collections in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

View the digital, printed and written heritage collections of the Netherlands: manuscripts, catalogues, digital literacy services, books, magazines, newspapers and maps.

Search, Visualize & Explore the Media History Digital Library

(LAC) preserves and makes accessible the documentary heritage of Canada and includes publications, archival records, sound and audio-visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents.

The world’s largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

A comprehensive source of information on the history of Ukrainian art on the Internet. The site has collected biographies of over 250 artists, and this section is constantly replenished. Texts, illustrative materials, and books published on the website Library of Ukrainian Art can be used by individuals only with the active hyperlink to the Library – i.e. Library of Ukrainian Art.

The Logan Public Library has spent a considerable amount of time collecting images related to the architectural landscape of the city over time. We are proud to offer a collection of some of these photographs combined with other materials related to the history of Logan, Utah.

Maine Memory Network is a statewide digital museum with historical items & stories from over 275 cultural organizations and individuals from every corner of Maine.

Historical Photographs of Maryland.

Libraries and organizations throughout Massachusetts and the U.S. are working together to make the resources of libraries, archives, and museums freely available to the public. These digital collections - including historical records and maps, works of art and culture, and research and scientific data - expand access and offer learning opportunities to everyone.

featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

an image bank with paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, stamps, posters and newspaper clippings from over one hundred Dutch museums, archives, and libraries

This collection of books, photographs, pamphlets, and documents tell the story of the Michiana area, including St. Joseph County, Indiana, and neighboring counties. "Unless otherwise noted, the materials in are in the public domain. The images are posted publicly for nonprofit uses, excluding printed publication"

La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, la primera en lengua castellana, es un fondo bibliográfico con obras de Literatura, Historia, Ciencias, etc., de libre acceso. Incluye trabajos de investigación, catálogo en otras lenguas y bibliotecas del mundo

Begun in 2003, the Minnesota Digital Library includes digital content from almost 200 participating organizations from across the state. Together we have digitized more than 55,000 photographs, postcards, maps, documents, letters, and oral histories. These materials are available online in a free searchable database.

M currently has 282 Digital Collections including books, images, and text collections in several subjects

The National Agricultural Library has collected, digitized, and united more than 2,000 items into a single online tool, the Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection.

or the English site or 국회도서관 for the Korean site.  The library collects resources for supporting legislative activities and provides them not only to the MPs and the related officials but also to the public.

Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Chile (BNd) es la plataforma que reúne todos los servicios y colecciones digitales de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, permitiendo la consulta remota de sus contenidos, el depósito de obras de creación, la asistencia y orientación de profesionales especializados, el ac…

In addition to providing digital access to physical material NLI subscribe to electronic resources to provide readers with free access to a rich variety of digital content. National Library of Ireland on (see below) The Commons | Flickr -"The Library's images within The Commons have no known copyright restrictions; this means that the National Library of Ireland is not aware of any current copyright restrictions on the photographs, usually, because the Library owns the copyright or the term of copyright has expired."

Explore National Library of Ireland on The Commons’s 3,445 photos on Flickr!

Ensures that national resources of significance relating to Australia and the Australian people are collected, preserved and made accessible

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France collects, preserves and makes known the national documentary heritage.

A comprehensive and treasured repository of intellectual and informational resources of the Republic of Korea.

Find out about the awesome collections at the National Library of New Zealand.

The Biblioteca Nacional is the main information and document centre on Spanish and Ibero-American written, graphic and audiovisual culture. Its collections include all kinds of material and its holdings are largely enriched through acquisitions: purchase, copyright, donation and exchange.

Provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.

This site has 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts and other primary materials from the collections of the State Archives, State Library and several of other institutions available online in one place.

The Louisiana Division/City Archives Photograph Collection includes thousands of photographic prints, negatives, slides, and born-digital images from individual photographers and New Orleans municipal government agencies.

Provides access to photographs, textual records, artifacts, government documents, manuscripts, and other materials

The New York State Library began digitizing New York State government documents in 1995. Today the State Library’s Digital Collections includes a substantial number of New York State publications, both contemporary materials from 1995 to the present and selected State publications from earlier year…

The images in the digital collections are displayed online as low-resolution jpg images, which members of the public are welcome to use as is (giving credit to Omaha Public Library). High-resolution TIFF images can be purchased.

The Online Archive of California (OAC) is a research gateway to unique and historical materials at archives, libraries, and museums throughout California.

Welcome to OpenGLAM Open Collections. We have brought together collections from around the world that provide digital scans or photos that can be freely used without any restrictions. This is an ever expanding list so if you know of collections that are not listed here please add them through our co…

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

A vast collection of artifacts, photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, films, and oral histories.

Feature historically significant documents, photographs, oral histories, artistic works and exhibit materials selected from the Oviatt Special Collections and Archives. From the site "Copyright. The items in our Digital Collections are made available for educational purposes. Commercial use of works that are not in the public domain is strictly prohibited by law without prior written consent from the copyright holder(s). The responsibility for the use of these materials rests exclusively with the user. "

Special collections and archival material including Rare books, photographs, films, yearbooks, newspapers, and thematic and biographical collections of all types

Welcome to Perseus 4.0, also known as the Perseus Hopper. Read more on the Perseus version history. New to Perseus? Click here for a short tutorial.

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

Free ebooks by authors who died before 1955 and whose work is therefore in the public domain in Australia

Public domain poetry, the literature from historic times, The poems of these famous authors.

Historical resources from Wisconsin communities, including photos, postcards, maps, letters, diaries, books, artifacts, oral histories and more.

The digital library contains  books online, collections, and exhibitions.  Books online sections have over 7,000 rare books, journals, and manuscripts in many categories. Copyright and reuse 

Die Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky (Stabi) ist Hamburgs größte wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek und gleichzeitig die zentrale Bibliothek der Universität Hamburg und der anderen Hochschulen der Stadt.

The North Carolina Digital Collections contain over 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina.

Libraries, Archives, & Museums at Alaska State Library

The digital library of written, graphic and literary heritage produced by the Hauts-de-France Regional Book and Reading Agency

Digitized documents, visuals, maps, broadsides, pamphlets, and three-dimensional objects significant to Arkansas history and culture, from the holdings of the Arkansas State Archives.

Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s collection—from our renowned icons to lesser-known works from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

The British Library home page, For research, inspiration and enjoyment

The digital State Library of Upper Austria

The European Library is an Internet service that allows access to the resources of 48 European national libraries and an increasing number of research libraries.

A collection of freely available digitized items from the Frick Collections

Welcome to The Glasgow School of Art’s Archives and Collections, a rich resource for the study of art, design, architecture and art education. Our varied holdings illustrate the history of the institution and the development of its teaching practices since it was established in 1845. Read more Colle…

Begin to explore the artifacts at the core of The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation™ through our continually expanding digital collections.

Explore the structures of public education in the city of Indianapolis in the new Indianapolis Public Schools Architecture digital collection. This architectural archive includes thousands of blueprints, drawings, photographs, and other documents relating to the built environment of the Indianapolis Public School system from the 1890s through the 1970s. Made possible by Lilly Endowment, Inc., through gifts to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.

The Kurdish Institute maintains the largest Kurdish Library in the Western World.
This library contains over 10,000 monographs about the Kurds, in 25 languages, several tens of thousands of published documents, collections of reviews and newspapers, photographs, videos, post cards and posters, as we…

We are a non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.

Central library of the state and one of the most important cultural institutions in Poland. Its mission is to protect national heritage preserved in the form of handwritten, printed, electronic, recorded sound and audiovisual documents.

Explore hundreds of thousands of digital items from The New York Public Library.

One of the nation’s oldest and largest collections containing nearly 9 million items.

Extensive, fascinating collections of manuscripts, books, newspapers, pictures, maps, music, theatre, drama texts and a lot of other materials and subjects

Take a journey through the personal, political and economic struggles that have symbolised women’s battle for equality over the past 500 years, through a representative selection of the broad range of materials in LSE Library and The Women’s Library @ LSE. A chronological presentation of more than 3…

A unique collection  of over 200 complete books on woodworking and associated trades and crafts in the public domain in the United States.

Includes rare historical pictures, maps, manuscripts, ephemera, and digitized books for research, study, and discovery.

Australia’s free online research portal. Trove is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organisations around Australia.

A searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video, most of which are in the public domain.  Those not in the public domain are intended for personal, private use.

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(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - more than 240,000 prints, photographs, postcards, posters, and ephemera.

A focus on the Wabash Valley region in west-central Indiana and east-central Illinois. The digital collection contains artifacts, administrative and personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, texts, yearbooks, maps, oral histories, and other audio/video files. 

(CC BY 4.0) Except where otherwise noted. Digitized materials are released under a variety of Creative Commons non-commercial, attribution and Public Domain licenses.

Explore the Wisconsin Historical Society’s resources, including extensive North American genealogy and Wisconsin history materials.

(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) - a free online library open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It archives books, including set readings recommended by the Ministry of National Education which have already fallen in the public domain.

The World Digital Library provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents from all countries and cultures, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.