\[ **BT: [[knowledge#archives]]** ] --- # digital archives and libraries ## ↬ external resources ### digital archives #### interdisciplinary | collection | notes | | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | [HathiTrust](https://www.hathitrust.org/) | broad range of texts and images | | [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) | broad range of texts and images; so many books | | [JSTOR](https://jstor.org) | broad range, mostly humanities. 100 free articles per month. Requires sign-up. | | [National Library of Australia](https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/) | really broad. gives access to JSTOR, the Macquarie English Dictionary, and many other online publications and resources. Free, requires a sign-up.<br> | | [Wikisource](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page) | broad range of texts, especially primary source-related | #### language - ↬ [Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/) — free; open access. - ↬ [Langenscheidt: German–English](https://en.langenscheidt.com/german-english/) — free; open access. #### history | collection | notes | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Anthroholic](https://anthroholic.com/) | free. ‘We strive to provide comprehensive and high quality content for deep understanding of the discipline.’ | | [europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/en) | European focus, historical texts, images. | | [National Archives of Australia](https://www.naa.gov.au/) | Australian history. Primary sources. Immigration and much more. <br><br>e.g. [NameSearch](https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/NameSearch.aspx) | | [The Australian National Dictionary](https://australianwords.au/) | provides results from various **historical** Australian dictionaries. Free to use. | | [World History Commons](https://worldhistorycommons.org/) | history texts, with a focus on annotated primary sources and teaching guid | ##### China | collection | notes | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Asia for Educators (Columbia University)](https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/) | Chinese history, culture and art; pedagogical focus | | [Chinese Text Project](https://ctext.org/) | Chinese-language historical and primary source texts, many translated into English. | | [Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts](https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/texts.html) | Chinese-language historical and primary source texts, translated into English. Mostly focused upon the Silk Road. | ##### Greco-Roman | collection | notes | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) | **Greco-Roman texts**; minor Arabic, Germanic, Renaissance, and 19th-century American texts | ##### Anglo-Saxons | collection | notes | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | | [Chrestomathy of Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Written Records](https://germanic.ge/en/ang/) | Anglo-Saxon and Gothic texts | #### folklore ##### folk tales | collection | notes | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | [D. L. Ashliman’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts](https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html) | Folk tales, folklore, mythology | | [Multilingual Folk Tale Database](http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=home) | Folk tales, fairy tales | | [The Gold Scales](http://oaks.nvg.org/ind-3.html) | Fairy tales, mythology, proverbs, nursey rhymes, etc | #### politics and governance | collection | notes | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | | [The Anarchist Library](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index) | Anarchism | ### digital image libraries #### interdisciplinary | collection | notes | | ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [HathiTrust](https://www.hathitrust.org/) | texts and images | | [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) | texts and images | | [Openverse](https://openverse.org/) | An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use. (==All Openverse content is under a [Creative Commons license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/) or is in the public domain.==) | | [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/) | Free royalty-free stock photos, images, and videos. Shared by creators. | #### history, social sciences | collection | notes | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | <br>[Cleveland Museum of Art](https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search) | Lots of antiquities etc under the Public Domain Mark. Copyright is either way very clearly labelled, and downloading is made easy. | | [europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/en) | European focus, historical texts, images. | | [National Archives of Australia](https://www.naa.gov.au/) | Australian history. Primary sources. Immigration and much more. | | [Smithsonian Open Access](https://www.si.edu/openaccess) | Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 5.1 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. | | [Wellcome Collection](https://wellcomecollection.org/collections)<br> | Free to use. Everything I’ve looked at so far has been licenced under the Public Domain Mark. | #### natural sciences | collection | notes | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Biodiversity Heritage Library](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ ) | biodiversity-focused | | [Saxifraga Gallery: Free Nature Images](http://www.freenatureimages.eu/) | Free stock photos of animals, plants and landscapes. All images are available on the website at a resolution of 1200 pixels. Bias towards European results. English searches work well, but I have noticed it’s often also worth trying in German. Plants seem searchable by their searched by their binominal names. | | [Smithsonian Open Access](https://www.si.edu/openaccess) | Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 5.1 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. | | [Wellcome Collection](https://wellcomecollection.org/collections)<br> | Free to use. Everything I’ve looked at so far has been licenced under the Public Domain Mark. |