LibGuides: Richardson Memorial Library: Digital Libraries &amp; Portals

Digital Libraries

Digital Public Library of America Partnership of cultural heritage organizations who make a diverse range of content openly available to the public for scholarship, education, and personal edification.
Europeana Sophisticated infrastructure for accessing digitized cultural heritage from European archives, libraries, and museums for enjoyment, education, and research. Includes books, music, artworks, and more.
Gallica Gallica is one of the major digital libraries available for free via the Internet. It provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, maps and plans.
HathiTrust HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. SLAM has access to open access content. Select "Full Text" and "Full View" for open access content.
Heidelberg University Digital Library Direct access to electronic full text resources licensed by Heidelberg University Library, as well as other open access resources. Includes Heidelberg's "virtual slide library," digitized books, and links to free online databases by subject categories.
Internet Archive Nonprofit American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." Provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books.
MetPublications Open access to nearly 2,000 of the Met's historic publications.
NYPL Digital Collection Open access to nearly 1 million digitized items from the New York Public Library's vast holdings.
Online Books Page Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to 3 million books that are freely readable over the Internet.
Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections Virtual repository that provides access to a portion of the Archives of American Art's holdings: 240 archival collections and nearly 18,000 documents. Includes collection finding aids, digitized manuscripts and oral histories.
Umbra Search Widget and search tool created to enhance discoverability related to African American culture. Includes digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the US.
USModernist® Library Publicly accessible digital archive of 20th-century American architecture journals, indices, and real estate, interior design and lifestyle publications.

Portals

ArchiveGrid A collection of over five million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web
Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America Resource created to help researchers locate primary source material about American art collectors, dealers, agents and advisors, and the repositories that hold these records.
FirstSearch-WorldCat Subscription-based tool for searching OCLC WorldCat bibliographic records.
Joconde - Catalogue des Collections des Musées de France Collective digital collection of the French museums. Includes high quality digital images of objects of all kinds.
MOBIUS Online Catalog Integrated online catalog for MOBIUS consortium libraries.
PHAROS 97,075 images of Italian works of art represented across membership of the International Consortium of Photo Archives. PHAROS is developing means by which researchers may upload images or paste image urls to search for visual cognates.
WorldCat Union catalog that itemizes the collections of 15,600 libraries in 107 countries that participate in the OCLC global cooperative. SLAM is an OCLC network library.