LIBRARIES - GATEWAYS - VIRTUAL LIBRARIES

Libraries World Wide: United Kingdom  - Italy - Spain - France - The Netherlands 
Germany - Switzerland - Scandinavia - IsraelAmerica - Oceania
Gateways -  Digital Libraries - Digitisation

Library Holdings


L
IBRARIES WORLD WIDE

KVK
Meta search engine for Library catalogues World wide from the University of Karlsruhe

Libweb - LibDex
Worldwide library catalogues on the WWW: 

World Wide Library Catalogues
Links from the Library of Congress

Gabriel
Gateway to European libraries

 


LIBRARIES BY COUNTRIES
 

ITALY

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Biblioteca Comunale Leonardiana - Vinci (Florence)

Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max- Planck- Institut), Rom

Biblioteca del Museo di Storia della Scienza - Florence

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze - Polo SBN di Firenze

European University Institute Library

ICCU (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico) - OPAC Indice SBN

ICCU (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico)
Census of Italian books of the 16th century

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

MAI - MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano

Università degli Studi di Firenze - Sistema Bibliotecario d'Ateneo

URBS - Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche

 

FRANCE

Catalogue Collectif de France
The bibliographic record of nearly every book ever published in France, in every French library.

BNF - Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Catalogues

Virtual exhibitions at the BNF
Online versions of exhibitions held at the Bibliothèque Nationale.

SUDOC catalogue
Catalogue of the Systeme Universitaire de Documentation

INHA - INHA catalogue
Homepage and catalogue of the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art


SPAIN

Biblioteca Nacional de España

Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español


PORTUGAL

National Library of Portugal


THE NETHERLANDS

Amsterdam University Library

Koninklijke Bibliotheek
National Library of the Netherlands

Leiden University Library

Utrecht University Library


GERMANY

Die Deutsche Bibliothek

Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut

Herzog August Bibliothek 

KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München


SWITZERLAND

Bibliothèque Nationale Suisse

 
UNITED KINGDOM

Copac
Access to the merged online catalogues of the British Library and the main university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.

University of London Library
This link provides access to the main page of the ULL from which you can navigate to various online facilities including links pages to the Libraries of the University of London as well as to the main London Libraries

Westminster Libraries and Archives

M25 Consortium Home Page
London area libraries

British Library

Catalogue of the School of Advanced Study

National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum,

Wellcome Institute Library

Bodleian Library

Cambridge University Library

 

SCANDINAVIA

Royal Library of Denmark

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ISRAEL

Jewish National and University Library


U.S.A.

Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico
Harvard On Line Library Information System - HOLLIS

The Library of Congress Online Catalog

National Library of Canada - Bibliothèque nationale du Canada


OCEANIA

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GATEWAYS
 

OAIster

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources providing access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER)
Gateway to online Journals, monographs, textbooks, abstracts, manuscripts, maps, music scores, still images, geospatial images, moving picture and sound collections

Intute (formerly Humbul Humanities Hub)
Aims to be UK higher and further education's Gateway for accessing online humanities resources.

Intute
Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
From the University of Berkeley, LII is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,800 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. 

Mapping Asia
Mapping Asia is a tool to improve access to UK library holdings for researchers working in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences relating to
Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.


DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Abbey Library of St. Gall online
High resolution images of entire manuscripts, accessible in German, French, English and Italian interfaces.
ABU
From the Association des Bibliophiles Universels: `Accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993.'

Bartleby.com

Bibliomania

Bibliotheca Augustana
The most elegant virtual Library on the Web.

Bibliotheca Palatina
The "Bibliotheca Palatina" in Heidelberg, one of the most precious collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts in the German language, has been digitized and is now available online.

Bivio
Online library from the Scuola Normale (Pisa)

Classiques des Sciences Sociales
From the University du Québec à Chicoutimi

Digital Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Eldritch Press
Mostly world literature in English translation

Europeana
Europeana offers approximately 12,000 copyright-free documents from the BnF, the Széchényi National Library of Hungary, and the National Library of Portugal.

Incunabula Digital Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Gallica
Digital versions of early printed books kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Internet Sacred Texts Archive

Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen
Early Greek books from the University of Basel Library

HMI Project
(HUmanities Media Interface) from KeioUniversity .

Laurens Janszoon Coster
Online Dutch literature

MATEO : Mannheim Texts Online

The Online Books page

Oxford Text Archive

Perseus Project Home Page

National Library of thew Netherland - Digital Collection

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DIGITISATION

Art & Humanities Data Service
The AHDS is a UK national service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Organised via an Executive at King's College London, and five service providers from various Higher Education institutions, the AHDS aids the discovery, creation and preservation of digital collections in the arts and humanities.

British Library Digital Library Programme

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

RLG Diginews
D-Lib Magazine
Two online journals on digitisaton

Interdsciplines is a website
for virtual interdisciplinary conferences.

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