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)
- Abebooks
- 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)
- Google Books
- 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)
Directories
- Universities Worldwide
(links to all) - History Conferences Worldwide
- History Departments Around the World
(search for specific department sites) - Online Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada
(from American Historical Association)
