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Special Collections - Try These First |
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| ArchiveGrid : open the door to history | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: Unspecified coverage available online: |
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| Index - over 4 million records describing archival material (mainly American, Canadian) - records describe historical documents, personal papers, family histories, photographs & other archival materials held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies & archives - provides contact information for institutions. | |
| Archives portal Europe | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: Unspecified coverage available online: |
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| Index, full-text - information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent. | |
| Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts | |
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| Use this website to find and view descriptions and images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library, one of the richest collections in the world. | |
| CERL portal | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1450- available online: |
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| Search engine -- cross-searches distributed databases containing manuscript materials, hand press printed works, photographic material & other special materials -- offers simultaneous searches in either all databases, or in a selection of one or more -- links to full text are included where possible. | |
| Early English books online | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1473-1700 available online: |
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| Full-text - over 125,000 literary & historical classics as they appeared in their original format - Works drawn from exhaustive bibliographies & collections of the period: Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700), Thomason Tracts (broadsides from the English Civil War period, 1640-1661) & Early English Books Tract Supplements. | |
| Early English books online | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1473-1700 available online: |
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| Full-text - over 125,000 literary & historical classics as they appeared in their original format - Works drawn from exhaustive bibliographies & collections of the period: Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700), Thomason Tracts (broadsides from the English Civil War period, 1640-1661) & Early English Books Tract Supplements. | |
| Early English books online | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1473-1700 available online: |
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| Full-text - over 125,000 literary & historical classics as they appeared in their original format - Works drawn from exhaustive bibliographies & collections of the period: Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700), Thomason Tracts (broadsides from the English Civil War period, 1640-1661) & Early English Books Tract Supplements. | |
| Early European books : printed sources to 1700 | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: Pre-1701 available online: |
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| Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through the close of the seventeenth century. The resource represents a diverse array of printed sources and opens the door to some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO) and is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials; however, books in English or printed in the English-speaking world that are already represented in EEBO are not omitted from Early European Books where they form an integral element of the predominantly non-Anglophone collections that have been made available for digital capture. Full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is c | |
| Explore the British Library | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 500 C.E.-present available online: |
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| Catalogue - comprises 60+ million records describing items in the BL: 14 million records for books, journals, newspapers, conferences, maps, scores, etc. + 50 million for journal articles + 5 million describing items in the BL Sound Archive - thousands of records for BL web pages + titles in its OA WebArchive + licensed electronic journals, e-books & databases - some BL specialist & manuscript catalogues are not yet included. | |
Special Collections - More Specifically |
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| 17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1600-1799 available online: |
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| Index, full-text - comprehensive collection of early English news media comprising 1,194 newspapers + nearly 100 examples of corantos, news-books & other early forms gathered by the Rev. Charles Burney - comprises nearly 1 million pages of digitized primary source material, mainly from London & provincial towns throughout the British Isles + America & Asia. | |
| 19th century U.S. newspapers | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1800-1899 available online: |
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| Index, full-text - covers 500+ newspapers from a range of urban & rural regions throughout the U.S. - comprises 1.8 million digital facsimile images of full pages, clipped articles, advertisements & illustrations - encompasses the entire 19th century: the Civil War & Confederacy, Native American & African-American culture & history, women's rights, Western migration, labor & Antebellum-era life, among other subjects + essays by journalism historians to provide context & clarity to the collection. | |
| 19th century UK periodicals | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1800-1899 available online: |
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| Index, full-text - content from 300+ national, regional, local, colonial & missionary, popular, women's & children's periodicals + professional & academic journals - comprises more than 2 million pages covering literature, science, agriculture, trade & industry, medicine, travel, geography & anthropology, humour, theatre, music, sport, recreation, politics, economics, education, social reform & philanthropy, religion, fine arts, architecture. | |
| America's historical imprints | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1639-1819 available online: |
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| Index, full-text - searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera enable researchers to explore America's distant and not so distant past from: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. | |
| At the circulating library : a database of Victorian fiction 1837-1901 | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1835-1902 available online: |
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| Catalogue -- biographical & bibliography database covering nineteenth-century British fiction -- "Search" author names or titles -- Find browse lists of authors, titles, publishers, years, genres or groups by using links under "Novels." | |
| C19 : the nineteenth century index | |
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| Welcome to C19: The Nineteenth Century Index – the most comprehensive and dynamic source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC), The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index, Periodicals Index Online and the Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811–1849 to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.7 million books and official publications, 70,000 archival collections and 22.7 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. C19 Index now provides integrated access to 13 bibliographic indexes, including more than three million records from British Periodicals Collections I and II, together with the expanded online edition of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (DNCJ) | |
| Canadiana discovery portal | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1600-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text - search across valuable, diverse digital collections from Canadian libraries, museums & archives including Early Canadiana Online and Heritage - access a wealth of digital material including books, journals, newspapers, government documents, photographs, maps, post cards, sheet music, audio & video files about Canada's heritage. | |
| Colonial state papers | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1574-1757 available online: |
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| Index, full-text - two important research tools as one service: 1) access 7,000+ digitized primary source documents covering English activities in the American, Canadian & West Indian colonies during the 16th-18th centuries (Privy Council ... Colonial Papers; CO 1) ; 2) Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America & the West Indies ... comprising 40,000+ bibliographic records for documents from CO 1 & many other sources - document types: letters of commission, petitions, articles of peace, lists of vessels & goods, reports of exploration, complaints of disputes & more. | |
| Connected histories : British history sources, 1500-1900 | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1500-1900 available online: |
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| "Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace."--Home page. | |
| Digital scriptorium | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 700-1700 available online: |
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| Images - database offering cross-institutional digital access to 70,000+ images from medieval & renaissance manuscripts - the Digital Scriptorium is designed to enhance knowledge & appreciation of the material through images that expand descriptions & correct their errors, through searches that provide answers & provoke questions, and through descriptions that share the demands & expertise of the library, academic & cultural communities. | |
| EHD : English historical document online | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 500-1914 available online: |
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| English Historical Documents Online contains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914. | |
| Eighteenth century collections online | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1700-1799 available online: |
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| Full-text - Over 180,000 titles - Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera - Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference and women's studies. | |
| Eighteenth century journals | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: circa 1685-1835 available online: |
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| Index, Full Text - Articles from British, Irish, Canadian, Caribbean and Indian magazines, journals & newspapers - Covers all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political & literary life: colonial life, provincial / rural affairs, the French and American revolutions. | |
| English short title catalogue | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1473-1800 available online: |
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| Catalogue - lists over 480,000 monographic & serial letter-press items printed in Britain, North America or territories governed by Britain in any language + English / British vernacular language materials printed in other parts of the world - covers books, pamphlets & other ephemeral materials + newspapers & other serials which began publication before 1801 - union catalogue for pre-1801 materials located in the collections of the British Library & 2000+ other libraries. | |
| Europeana : collections | |
| Internet access unrestricted Coverage: B.C.E.-present available online: |
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| Digital library created by the European Union. Provides access to over 50 million digitised items contributed by various European libraries and museums, including books, music, and artworks, and artefacts. | |
| Gallica : la bibliothèque numérique | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1100-present available online: |
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| Catalogue, full-text - explore French culture, history, literature, science, law, political science, economics, science & technology through digitized collections from the Bibliothèque nationale de France - huge freely available online library comprising 20,000 archival periodicals & 635,000 books + thousands of digitized maps, images, animations, sound recordings, scores, manuscripts & more - French + other European languages. | |
| HathiTrust digital library | |
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| HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions into one digital library. Full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are available for viewing or searching. Log in by selecting Memorial University of Newfoundland to access the largest number of volumes and features. Guest users without a MUN Login ID can view out-of-copyright items with some restrictions. | |
| Héritage | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1600-1979 available online |
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| Index, full-text - online access to popular Canadian archival microfilm collections from Library and Archives Canada - encompasses 30+ million pages of primary-source documents: records from federal departments, agencies & crown corporations + aboriginal affairs + administrative & service records of military institutions & conflicts + private papers from individuals / organizations supporting politics, labour, social justice, arts & literature, sports & recreation + detailed genealogical files, indexes & other records chronicling settlement, land ownership, family history & community life. | |
| History of the Book in Canada = L'Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1900-present available online: |
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| Index - comprehensively catalogues publications on the history of print culture in Canada - Covers the practices of the printing & publishing industries, the history of print materials from their creation and production through distribution to reception by readers, the history of institutions, such as libraries, and their relationship to published works, the interconnections of manuscript, print, & electronic materials, and the economic, cultural, political, & societal influences that have affected the development of print culture in Canada. | |
| Incunabula short title catalogue | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1450-1501 available online: |
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| Index - international database of 15th-century European printing - comprises 30,500+ records describing items printed from movable type before 1501 - records include authors, short titles, language of the text, format, printer, place & date of printing; confirmed locations are noted - links to online digital facsimiles are provided + links to other major online catalogues of incunabula. | |
| Manuscriptorium | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1400s-present available online: |
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| "The Manuscriptorium project is creating a virtual research environment providing access to all existing digital documents in the sphere of historic book resources (manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, charters and other types of documents). These historical resources, otherwise scattered in various digital libraries around the world, are now available under a single digital library interface. The service provides seamless access to more than 5 million digital images." | |
| Nineteenth century collections online | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1800s available online: |
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| Index, full-text - A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location. | |
| Universal short title catalogue | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1436-1599 available online: |
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| Catalogue - database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing & the end of the sixteenth century - comprises descriptions of approximately 350,000 editions; provides details for 1.5 million surviving copies located in 5,000+ libraries worldwide - access point for digital full-text editions provided by scholarly and commercial partners. | |
| Victorian web | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1800-present available online: |
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| Web site - resource for Victorian studies including topical links to political & social history, religion, science, visual arts, popular entertainment & Victorian authors - links 80,000+ full-text 19th century documents, as well as to current periodicals, book reviews, related WWW links & a bibliography. | |
Special Collections - Also to Consider |
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| Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved illustration | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1860s-1870s available online: |
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| Welcome to the Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration (DMVI), which contains records and images of over 850 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862. These illustrations provide bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at exceptionally high quality. Access images by using a keyword search, advanced search, or browse through images by iconographic classification. | |
| EHPS : European history primary sources | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 500-present available online: |
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| Index - covers scholarly Web sites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe - each Web site has a short description and is categorized according to country, language, period, subject and type of source. | |
| Gale primary sources | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1400-2012 available online: |
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| Index, full-text - integrated research environment, covering millions of pages from newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps & photographs, with searching across several primary source collections in the humanities & social sciences: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Illustrated London News (1842-2003), The Listener (1929-1991), Times Digital Archive (1785-1985), Times Literary Supplement (1902-2011) + four full-text archives covering hundreds of newspapers & magazines published 1600-1900 - includes analysis tools: term frequency & term-relationship + graphing tools to visualize trends over time. | |
| World Digital Library | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 8000 B.C.E.-present available online: |
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| Catalogue - Internet-based, easily-accessible collection of cultural treasures from countries & cultures around the world - Includes digitized primary materials: manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints, photographs, etc. - Navigation tools & content descriptions available in 7 languages; more languages represented by the digital artefacts. | |