Digital Collections
- Access is Restricted to Concordia Users
Early Canadiana Online:
Early Canadiana Online is a digital library providing access to almost 14,000 digitized volumes comprising over 2 million pages of Canada's printed heritage.
- Archives
Canada Digitization Projects: view historical maps, photographs, and documents.
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec:
BANQ's digitization program encompasses the whole of the published and archival documentary heritage produced in Quebec
since the 17th century, including printed and handwritten material, photographs, and sound recordings.
- Canada's Digital Collections: contains more than 600 collections mainly for youth. Includes learning materials and interactive games.
- Canadiana Discovery Portal: search across the digital collections of Canada's libraries, museums, and archives. Find books, journals, newspapers, government documents, photographs, maps, post cards, sheet music, audio and video files.
- Images Canada: central search access to the images held on the
websites of Canadian cultural institutions.
- Les Classiques de Sciences Sociales: "une bibliothèque
unique et originale dans la francophonie". Dirigée par Jean-Marie Tremblay au Cégep de
Chicoutimi en coopération avec l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
- McGill University Digital Collections:
"...more than forty digital projects covering a wide array of subjects including, art, architecture, history and literature, engineering, medicine, maps, music, and urban design."
- University of Toronto Libraries
Digital Collections: includes the digital collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, such as Anatomia, Papyri, and Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides.
- American Memory - The Library of Congress: American Memory provides free
and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, and still and moving images, which document the American experience.
- Cornell University Library: "Comprehensive collections of
digital images, text, data or video that can be browsed and/or searched."
- Columbia University's Digital Library:
Includes several digital collections, such as the Digital South Asia Library, the Digital Scriptorium, and the Bunraku Collection Gallery.
- Life Photo Archive: Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
- NASA Astrophysics Data System: Maintains "three bibliographic databases
containing more than 7.4 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and e-prints."
- The Picture Collection Online: (New York Public Library) "Presents more than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and
postcards, mostly created before 1923."
- Smithsonian Images:
Smithsonian Images maintains an archive of over 2.5 million contemporary and historic images from the National Museum of
American History Bering Center, National Museum of Natural History, and National Air and Space Museum.
- University of Washington Libraries: "Features materials such as photographs,
maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the University of Washington Libraries."
- Washington State University's Digital Collection:
Includes collections of maps, films, northwest history documents, oral histories, and photographs.
- Yale University Library's Digital Collections:
Includes over 300,000 images.
- AdAccess (Duke University): "Presents images and database
information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955."
- Europeana: Images, texts, sounds and videos from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
- Getty Images: Search for creative or editorial images or footage.
- Global Gateway: Includes collections from the Library
of Congress focusing on history and cultures around the world as well as collaborative collections using multimedia resources
built with international partners.
- Internet Library of Early Journals: 18th and 19th century British journals.
- Getty Images: Search for creative or editorial images or footage.
- The Linda Hall Library's Digital Collections:
Includes Engineering Indexes from American Publications, 1867-1920, History of Science and Technology Works,
an astronomy collection dating from 1482 to the 19th century and more.
- OAIster: search engine for academic
digital collections on the Web.
- World Digital Library: This site includes "significant primary materials from countries and
cultures around the world," including manuscripts, maps, rare books, recordings, films, prints, photographs and architectural drawings.
page last updated on: Friday 23 September 2011