BT: [[archives]] RT: [[knowledge preservation]], [[library science]] --- # digital archives and libraries | Collection | Brief Description | Access Notes | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Asia for Educators (Columbia University)](https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/) | Chinese history, culture and art. Teaching focus. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Biodiversity Heritage Library](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ ) | Biodiversity-focused. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Chinese Text Project](https://ctext.org/) | Chinese-language historical texts, primary sources. Some English translations. | Free to use. Open access. Sometimes the website will, however, direct you to lists of books which require purchasing. | | [Chrestomathy of Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Written Records](https://germanic.ge/en/ang/) | Anglo-Saxon and Gothic primary sources. Translations into English. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search) | Antiquities and art. Image-focused. | Free to use. Open access. Most images are in the Public Domain, but all copyright statuses are clearly labelled and downloading is made easy. | | [D. L. Ashliman’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts](https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html) | Folk tales, folklore, myth and legend. | Free to use. Open access. | | [europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/en) | European focus. Historical texts and images. | Free to use. Open access. | | [HathiTrust Digital Library](https://www.hathitrust.org/) | Interdisciplinary, texts and images, 18 million+ records. Global, but with a USA-sourcing bias. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) | Texts, images, websites, video, music, etc. Millions of records. | Free to use. Open access. | | [JSTOR](https://jstor.org) | Interdisciplinary, humanities-leaning. | Requires sign-up. 100 free articles per month. Further usage requires a subscription. Can often access unrestricted via your library membership. | | [Langenscheidt: German–English](https://en.langenscheidt.com/german-english/) | German–English dictionary. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Multilingual Folk Tale Database](http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=home) | Folk tales, fairy tales. | Free to use. Open access. | | [National Archives of Australia](https://www.naa.gov.au/) | Australian focus. Historical texts and images. Primary-sources. | Free to use. Open access. | | [National Library of Australia](https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/) | Interdisciplinary. Australian. | Requires sign-up. Free to use. Provides access to JSTOR, the Macquarie English dictionary, and many things otherwise behind paywalls. | | [Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/) | English-language etymology. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Openverse](https://openverse.org/) | Images (stock photos) and audio. | Free to use. Open access. All Openverse content is licensed under a [Creative Commons license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/) or is in the Public Domain. | | [Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) | Primary sources. Greco-Roman focus. Minor Arabic, Germanic, Renaissance, and 19th-century American texts | Free to use. Open access. | | [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/) | Stock photos, images, and video. | Free to use. Open access. All content is royalty-free and shared by creators. | | [Saxifraga Gallery: Free Nature Images](http://www.freenatureimages.eu/) | Stock photos of animals, plants and landscapes. European bias. English searches work well, but it’s sometimes more effective to search in German. Plants searchable via binominals. | Free to use. Open access. Images available at a resolution of 1200 pixels. | | [Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts](https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/texts.html) | Silk Road focus. English translations of historical and primary source texts. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Smithsonian Open Access](https://www.si.edu/openaccess) | Text, image, and 3D content. Interdisciplinary. | Free to use. Open access. | | [The Anarchist Library](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index) | Anarchist and Anarchism-related texts. | Free to use. Open access. | | [The Australian National Dictionary](https://australianwords.au/) | Collation of various historical Australian English dictionaries. | Free to use. Open access. | | [The Gold Scales](http://oaks.nvg.org/ind-3.html) | Fairy tales, proverbs, nursery rhymes, myth and legend. | Free to use. Open access. | | [Wellcome Collection](https://wellcomecollection.org/collections)<br> | Historical text and images. | Free to use. Open access. Content licenced under the Public Domain. | | [Wikisource](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page) | Global. Primary sources. | Free to use. Open access. | | [World History Commons](https://worldhistorycommons.org/) | Global. Annotated primary sources + teaching grid. | Free to use. Open access. |