Library Guides: How to use online resources: Other Institutions

Digital Collections from Other Institutions--General Interest

Digital Public Library of America
The DPLA is a collection of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country.
Library of Congress
Millions of digitized images, sound recordings, videos, maps and more!
ArtStor
The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
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Some collections are public and others require registering a free individual account.
Smithsonian Digital Collection
Digitized manuscripts, ephemera, photo collections, and seed catalogs.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Items from the early modern period; not just focused on Shakespeare related items.
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Vast digital collection that includes both archival material and rare books, even medieval manuscripts, with a robust search feature.

Farm, Field, Fireside-University of Illinois
"The Farm, Field and Fireside collection contains historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These titles document a time of transition in American agriculture, politics, family life, and technology."
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

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Subjects: Archives & Manuscripts