Examples for Finding Digital Collections
Guides to Copyrights
When and how can I use a digital source?
- Cornell’s Copyright Information Center: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/
- Center for Media and Social Impact, resources on Fair Use, http://cmsimpact.org/program/fair-use/
- College Art Association Fair Use Guidelines for the Visual Arts http://cmsimpact.org/code/fair-use-for-the-visual-arts/
Federated Collections
- JStor, www.jstor.org
- DPLA, http://dp.la/
- HathiTrust, http://www.hathitrust.org/
- Smithsonian Collections Search Center, http://collections.si.edu/search/
- Europeana, http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en
- Classical Art Research Online Research Services (CLAROS): http://www.clarosnet.org/XDB/ASP/claroshome/index.html
- Internet Archive, https://archive.org/
- List of online collections from NARA, http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/virtual-library.html
Library, Archive, Museum Collections
- Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina Library, http://docsouth.unc.edu/
- Library of Congress, American Memory,http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html, Chronicling America, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
- Denver Public Library Western History Collection, http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/
- Harvard University’s Open Collections, http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
- California Digital Library, http://www.cdlib.org/
- Archives of American Art, http://www.aaa.si.edu/
- Duke University, Emergence of American Advertising, 1850-1920: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/
- Henry Ford Museum, http://collections.thehenryford.org/
Non-Profit Collections
- Densho: Japanese American Legacy Project, http://www.densho.org/
- History Harvests, University of Nebraska, http://historyharvest.unl.edu/
- History Pin (also user-generated and federated), We are What We Do, http://www.historypin.com/
- Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/
- FamilySearch, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saintshttps://familysearch.org/
- Discover the Freedmen, http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/
- Black Press Research Collective, list of digital collections: blackpressresearchcollective.org/resources/scholarship-archives/
Commercial Subscription Collections
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers, http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html
- Alexander Street Press Online Collections, http://alexanderstreet.com/products/history/american-history
User-Generated Collections
- September 11 Digital Archive, RRCHNM, http://911digitalarchive.org
- Our Marathon, Northeastern University, http://marathon.neu.edu/
- Community of Gardens, Smithsonian Gardens, https://communityofgardens.si.edu/
Community-sourced Metadata or Collections Transcriptions
- What’s on the Menu?, New York Public Library, https://transcription.si.edu/
- Papers of the War Department, RRCHNM, http://wardepartmentpapers.org/
- Smithsonian Transcription Center, https://transcription.si.edu/
- DIY History, University of Iowa Libraries, http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/
Auction Sites
- Christie’s, http://www.christies.com/?sc_lang=en
- eBay, http://ebay.com
Data Sets
- IPUMS, University of Minnesota, https://www.ipums.org/