Open Access (OA) Resources

Duke University Libraries - Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

A digital document library by the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library.

BHO is a not-for-profit digital library based at the Institute of Historical Research. It brings together material for British history from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and academics. These primary and secondary sources, which range from medieval to twentieth century, are easily searchable and browsable online.

A comprehensive archive on the Civil Rights Movement. Content includes a digital video archive of historical news film, manuscript and photo collections, and a pedagogical collection which offers encyclopedia articles, lesson plans, and activities.

This archive provides access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.

Harvard Law Schools Library - This collection of nearly 600 broadsides highlights crime and capital punishment, primarily in England, as seen through the popular press in the 18th and 19th century.

The corpus of books in this database trace the history of English thought from the first book printed in English in 1475 through to 1700. The books include works of literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, history, politics, mathematics, music, the practical arts, natural science, and all other areas of human endeavor.

Duke University Libraries - A collection of over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.

University of Washington Libraries - This fashion plate collection is from some of the leading French, British, American, and other continental fashion journals of the 19th century and early 20th century.

State Library and Archives of Florida - A digital archive of photographs, manuscripts, audio, and video of Florida history. The Archives is part of the Division of Library and Information Services, one of seven divisions within the Florida Department of State.

A collaboration with Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative (FALSC) member libraries, the Florida Open Academic Library provides a statewide searchable database that includes an inventory of digital archives and collections held by public postsecondary education institutions.

HathiTrust preserves and provides lawful access to the 17+ million digitized items. It offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Provides and organizes texts for educational purposes. This collection includes links to visual and aural material.

Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks Project - The Medieval Sourcebook is both a classroom resource and the largest collection of online medieval texts.

Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks Project - This collection is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.

Includes a wealth of primary source sets and digital collections.

Harvard University - The scores and libretti in this collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.

The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is comprised of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.

OCLC - A selection of digital resources from open archives collections that represents multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,100 contributors worldwide.

The Perseus Digital Library Project collects the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman and Arabic world and offers these texts, both in their language of origin and in English, as in a contextualized format.

State University Libraries of Florida - PALMM is a cooperative initiative of the public universities and colleges of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship. These collections include high-quality texts/images relevant to the students, research community and general citizenry of Florida.

An online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. This site features books, images, film, and audio that are in the public domain.

University of Oklahoma - Documents covering Native American history, law, and culture.

Managed by the George A. Smathers Libraries at UF, UFDC hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections.

A collection of vintage ads from a variety of sources.