| Grand atelier historique de la langue française |
CD-ROM |
France |
14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th |
Dictionnaire de La Curne de sainte Palaye -- Dictionnaire de Jean Nicot (1606) -- Curiosités françaises / Antoine Oudin -- Dictionnaire français contenant les mots et les choses / Pierre Richelet (1680) -- Dictionnaire Universel / Antoine Furetière (1690) -- Dictionaire étymologique [sic] / Gilles Menage (1694) -- Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences / Thomas Corneille (1694) -- Dictionnaire Universel François & latin vulgairement appelé de Trévoux (1743-1752) -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1762) -- Dictionnaire philosophique et compléments / Voltaire -- Dictionaire [sic] critique / Abbé J.F. Féraud -- Dictionnaire grammatical de la langue française / Abbé J.F. Féraud -- Dictionnaire de la langue française / Émile Littré -- Dictionnaire universel des synonymes / Guizot. |
| Frantext |
Online |
France |
14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st |
FRANTEXT is a major corpus of French texts spanning the 16th to 20th centuries. The database currently contains the full text of approximately 3500 works, of which 80% are literary texts, the other 20% being mainly scientific texts. |
| Oxford dictionary of National Biography |
Online |
UK; Ireland |
14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st |
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in association with the British Academy is the first point of reference for anyone interested in the lives of the peoples of the British Isles and their connections overseas, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. It is the product of research instituted at the University of Oxford and funded by the British Academy and by Oxford University Press. It is the achievement of 10,000 contributors and advisers staff in Oxford. The Oxford DNB aims to provide full, accurate, concise, and readable articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life. No living person is included: the Dictionary's articles are confined to people who died before 31 December 2000. |
| Early English books online |
Online |
UK; Ireland |
15th; 16th; 17th |
Collection of online text editions of works originally published between 1473-1700, listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue, Wing's Short title catalogue or the Thomason tracts. Titles in the collection cover literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, science and all other areas of human endeavor. |
| CIDEHUS Digital |
Online |
Portugal |
15th; 16th; 17th |
CIDEHUS Digital is a data repository. In open access, it offers an increasing volume of materials, encouraging its reuse. It makes the past more accessible through the technologies of the present and contributes to the constant (re)making of science. It comprises databases, collections and reference works, multimedia materials, sources and cartography tools. In this already relevant set, the contents of some of the old volumes of the «Virtual Library of Portuguese Discoveries» stand out, which, with the consent of the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries, are now available under the name of «Ophir Restored». |
| Early European Books |
Online |
Europe |
15th; 16th; 17th |
All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project. Early European Books offers full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is captured in its entirety, complete with its binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages, and any loose inserts, providing scholars with a wealth of information about the physical characteristics and provenance histories of the original artefacts.
Access to collections depends on the IP address of the user. The following libraries have negotiated free country-wide access to the materials contributed to EEB by the source library and for the duration of the partnership agreement.
The Royal Danish Library – Kongelige Bibliotek (Copenhagen, Denmark)
The National Central Library of Florence – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Florence, Italy)
The National Library of the Netherlands – Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague, The Netherlands)
The Wellcome Library - The Wellcome Library (London, United Kingdom). |
| Portuguese bibliography 15th century to 1999 |
CD-ROM |
Portugal; Brazil |
15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th |
General bibliography of works about or published in Portugal and Brazil, in a wide variety of subject areas. The Bibliography covers general reference works, encyclopedias, bibliographies, historical, geographical, and biographical reference works, dissertations, academic monographs, non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, periodicals and newspapers. |
| Making of the modern world |
Online |
Europe |
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th |
The Making of the Modern World (MOMW) brings together two collections of primary source material in a single search interface. MOMW Part I draws on the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850, providing digital facsimile images on every page of 62,400 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. MOMW Part II extends the original collection to include works published from 1851 through 1914. Full-text searching and Text-Mining on the more than 11 million pages is now possible within this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, industrialization, trade and transport. Bibliographic records for individual titles included in both MOMW Part I and MOMW Part II are included in the EUI Library Catalogue. |
| Women writers online |
Online |
UK; USA |
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th |
Women Writers Online, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University, contains full-text editions of more than 420 texts texts by English and American women published between 1526 and 1850. It also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. The site provides links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi. |
| Digital library dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato |
Online |
Italy |
14th; 15th; 17th; 16th; 18th; 20th; 19th; 21st |
Approximately 1,500 inventories of the Italian Central State Archive are available for remote research, browsable and searchable word by word thanks to OCR standards. Thousands of documents, photographs and posters are also available in the interoperable IIIF format. |
| Arquivo.pt |
Online |
Portugal |
20th; 21st |
Arquivo.pt – the Portuguese web-archive is a research infrastructure that enables search and access to files archived from the web since 1996. Its main objective is the preservation of information published on the Web for research purposes. |
| Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) |
Online |
USA |
19th; 20th |
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. |
| Grand atelier historique de la langue française |
CD-ROM |
France |
17th; 18th |
Includes 14 French dictionaries from the 16th through 19th centuries.
Contents: Dictionnaire de La Curne de sainte Palaye -- Dictionnaire de Jean Nicot (1606) -- Curiosités françaises / Antoine Oudin -- Dictionnaire français contenant les mots et les choses / Pierre Richelet (1680) -- Dictionnaire Universel / Antoine Furetière (1690) -- Dictionaire étymologique [sic] / Gilles Menage (1694) -- Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences / Thomas Corneille (1694) -- Dictionnaire Universel François & latin vulgairement appelé de Trévoux (1743-1752) -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1762) -- Dictionnaire philosophique et compléments / Voltaire -- Dictionaire [sic] critique / Abbé J.F. Féraud -- Dictionnaire grammatical de la langue française / Abbé J.F. Féraud -- Dictionnaire de la langue française / Émile Littré -- Dictionnaire universel des synonymes / Guizot. |
| Eighteenth century collections online |
Online |
UK; USA |
18th |
This database aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with other important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. 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. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered. |
| Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte |
Online |
Germany |
20th |
The academy project "Annual Reports on German History" records and indexes German and foreign-language publications on German history from the Roman-Germanic period to the present. |
| Historical statistics of the United States |
Online |
USA |
18th; 19th; 20th |
Compendium of approximately 13,000 statistical series on a range of social, behavioral, human and environmental topics from the United States Census Bureau, from 1770 to 2000. |
| Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) |
Online |
Europe |
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th |
| Arcanum |
Online |
Hungary |
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st |
Online full text database of Hungarian scientific journals, encyclopedias, newpapers, and monographic series from the 1800s to the present. |
| Nineteenth century short title catalogue I-III |
CD-ROM |
UK |
19th |
Provide complete listings of books printed in Britain, the colonies and the U.S.A between 1801 and 1919. It also includes books in English published elsewhere and translations from English. |
| 19th century British pamphlets |
Online |
UK |
19th |
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets, created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.
The digitization of more than 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities in the UK spanning more than one million pages brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. |
| Reklame |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
19th |
1,081 posters from the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, most of which were originally collected by Hans Sachs |
| Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français |
CD-ROM |
France |
19th; 20th |
Contains more than 900,000 publications and other material like maps and dissertations. |
| European population, 1850-1945 |
CD-ROM |
Europe |
19th; 20th |
The European Population 1850-1945 is a comparative and historical data handbook and accompanying CD-ROM presenting series data on demographic developments, population and household structures for the countries of Western and Central Europe. All major fields of demographic change are covered: fertility, mortality, marriage, and divorce. Population figures are given for each population census by sex, civil status and age. Major demographic developments within the family are described providing a commentary on the main population structures and trends in Europe since the 19th century. |
| Fünfzig Jahre Deutsche Mark: monetäre Statistiken 1948-1997 |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
20th |
This CD-ROM (in German) contains approximately 25 000 long time series taken from the German Bank's monetary statistics on trends in the monetary and banking systems, the capital market and external relations from 1948 to 1997. |
| Wer war wer in der DDR? |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
20th |
Biographical dictionary of East Germany. |
| Mass Observation Online |
Online |
UK |
20th |
A pioneering social research organisation, Mass Observation was founded in 1937 by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, film-maker Humphrey Jennings and poet Charles Madge. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves', and by recruiting a team of observers and a panel of volunteer writers they studied the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. This landmark digital project opens up revolutionary access to the archive. |
| Le Monde (1944-2000) |
Online |
France |
20th-21st |
Written in the French language and covering leading issues and events, like World War II and the Fifth Republic, to French, European and international politics, society and business, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde reveals the day-to-day news coverage valued by researchers. |