Search engines (historical, academic)
History and Specialized
- Archives Finder
(now including ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland, search repositories and primary source collections, for subscribers only)
- Book search engines
(beyond the library and Amazon)
- Abebooks
(search new, used, and rare books)
- Alibris
(search new, used, and rare books)
- Digital Book Index
(links to 165,000 full-text digital books/140,000 available free, includes many calendars, indices, and texts of primary sources)
- Elibron
(commercial reprints of old titles)
- History E-Book Project
(American Council on Learned Societies, free-access, digitized history books)
- Humanities Text Initiative
(growing list of digitized sources, mainly U.S. history)
- Internet Library of Early Journals
(digitized versions of runs of Gentleman's
Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
- Project Gutenberg
(36,000+ free-access digitized books)
- Publishers' Catalogues
(all publishers)
- BUBL Information Service Link Catalogue
(originally BUlletin Board for Libraries, all academic subject areas, Dewey Decimal Classification)
- Google
- Google Books
(full text of books, expanding, mainly works whose copyright has expired)
- Google Scholar
(searches peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts)
- Guide to History on the Web
(database of US and world history sites, from Center for History and New Media)
- History Guide
(subject gateway to scholarly history websites, from European university consortium)
- History on the Web
(History Favorites from Eastern Illinois)
- Internet Scout Report
(finding and evaluating scholarly sites, including 1,000s in history)
- Ready, 'Net, Go!: Archival Internet Resources
(metaindex of archival indices)
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