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Archives and Libraries
Specialized Archives, Libraries or Collections
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Specialized Archives, Libraries or Collections
- 1851 Project : The Great Exhibition The 1851 Project began in February 1995, with the aim of improving access to all relevant material held by the National Art Library (at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London) by reorganising and recataloguing it. By February 1997 the whole of the Library's collections in these areas had been recatalogued and made accessible through the Computer Catalogue.
- AGF - Archives historiques (Paris). Brief information on the historical records of the Assurances Générales de France.
- Alabama Department of Archives and History - Business Records General overview.
- Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress. A first release of 1,400 digitized documents.
- Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche en Sciences humaines et sociales Founded in 2001, the «Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche» (AAR) provide a program developped by the Equipe Sémiotique Cognitive et Nouveaux Multimédias (ESCoM ) of the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH), Paris. The program is conceived to preserve and make accessible the audiovisual heritage.
- Archives in Russia This site, based on the ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic database for Russian archives, provides an abbreviated listing of the current fourteen federal archives administered by the Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarkhiv), archives of major federal agencies, and local municipal and oblast archives in Moscow and St Petersburg (Leningrad Oblast).
- Archivi e le biblioteche delle Camere di commercio
- Archivio storico elettronico IRI at the Centro per la ricerca e lo sviluppo di metodologie e applicazioni di archivi storici (Rome). Searchable index to the records of the Istituto per la riconstruzione industriale (work in progress).
- ArkivCentrum Örebro Län Regional records of public life and business. Overview of the collections.
- Arthur Lakes Library at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO). A specialized technical library. Online catalog.
- Association French Lines Overview of the collections of the Compagnie générale maritime and the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée, including those of the Compagnie générale transatlantique and the Compagnie des Messageries maritimes.
- Baker Library - Historical Collections at Harvard Business School. Extensive information, online catalog (Web). Home to the Kress Collection of Business and Economics and an important business manuscripts collection.
- Banco de España - Archivo Histórico (Madrid). General information, including on the library
- Bank of Canada Archives (Ottawa). Overview of the collections.
- Bayerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (München). Overview of its holdings and other information.
- Biblioteca Luis Angel Arrango (Santa Fe de Bogotá). The archives and library collection of the Banco de la República de Colombia. Collections information.
- Biblioteca Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). The most important social science library in Argentina. Information on the collections, including several business archives.
- Bibliothek für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Köln.
- BLPES Pamphlet collection The site contains the catalogue of the 90.000 pamphlets of the British Library of Political & Economic Science (BLPES).
- British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics. Over 1m vols, 28,000 journals. Online catalog (Web). Guides to the manuscript and pamphlet collections.
- British Telecom Archives (London). Overview of the collections.
- Brunel University Library - Transport History Collection (London). Brief guide.
- Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull. Listings of its labour and business history collections.
- Cambridge University Library - Business Archives Brief description of the records of Jardine, Matheson & Co, Vickers Plc, Phoenix Assurance, and the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
- Carl Zeiss Archives The Carl Zeiss Archives contain original documents, files, photos, patents, registered designs, product literature, technical documentation and instruments from the more than 150-year history of Carl Zeiss.
- Center for Agricultural History at Iowa State University. Information on the journal Agricultural History, links.
- Center for Historical Social Science Literature at Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). Information on its collections, among them the library of Carl Menger.
- Center for the History of Electrical Engineering of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New Brunswick, NJ). Finding aids, research guides, newsletter, oral history transcripts.
- Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek Voorburg/Heerlen.
- Centre des Archives du Monde du Travail (Roubaix). A subsidiary of the French National Archives, collecting social and economic history sources from its region. General information.
- Centre historique minier de Lewarde Overview of the archival collection.
- Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History at the University of Minnesota. Collections include the Burroughs Corp records. Finding aids, links to related sites.
- Cincinnati Historical Society Library - Business Archives
- Collection of Industrial History at Kettering University (Flint, MI). Overview of the collections of the Kettering/GMI Alumni Foundation, including documents on General Motors Corp.
- Conservatoire Numérique des Arts & Métiers Une bibliothèque numérique consacrée à l'histoire des sciences et des techniques, constituée à partir du fonds ancien de la bibliothèque du CNAM. Le CNUM est un projet commun de la Bibliothèque, du Centre d'histoire des techniques et du Centre d'études et de recherche en informatique du CNAM.
- Dalhousie University Libraries - Special Collections Listings of its business archives collection, and of the Nova Scotia Labour Archives.
- David Sarnoff Library The David Sarnoff Library's website has been expanded. Of special interest to phonograph and television historians, as well as historians of technology, media and communications, home entertainment, business, the Russian Revolutions and Civil War, and New Jersey, are two additions in the Online Text.
- Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ZBW Online-Catalog ECONIS.
- Digitale Bibliotheek Amsterdam (DBA) The Amsterdam Central Catalogue (ACC) is a combined regional catalogue for those AdamNet libraries, that have also been entered in the Dutch Central Catalogue (NCC).
- Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs The Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs is intended for research, and deals with world's fairs from 1851-1940.
- Dundee University Archives - Indian Textile Industry Source List Detailed index.
- Earl J. Hamilton Papers on the Economic History of Spain 1351-1830 Special Collections Library, Duke University, Economist's Papers Project.
- Economic Policy Institute Library (Washington, DC). Online catalog (Web).
- Edison National Historic Site (West Orange, NJ) at the US National Park Service. Extensive general information. See also the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project.
- Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland Provincial Centre for Industrial Heritage, Archives and Museums.
- Erhvervsarkivet (Århus), the Danish National Business Archives. General holdings information.
- /Geschiedenis : Dossier Bedrijven [Dossier Business (History)] The site /Geschiedenis is the result of cooperation between the VPRO (a Dutch Broadcasting Company) and 2 programs on radio and tv about history. The site offers films, pictures and relevant dossiers (for example one on business history).
- Europeana Search through the cultural collections of Europe, connect to other user pathways and share your discoveries.
- Federal Reseve Bank of Minneapolis Research Archive The Research Department's online archive offers all papers and reports published internally since its inception.
- First Fidelity Bank collection at the Maryland State Archives. General information.
- Fondazione Ansaldo Archivio economico delle imprese liguri.
- Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (Turin). General information on its social-economic history collections.
- Geschiedenis van Zuid-Holland maintained by the Provinciaal Historisch Centrum Zuid-Holland.
- Gettelman Brewing Company at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: items from the company's scrapbooks, 1860-1987.
- Glasgow University Archive Services Collection of business records, mainly from Scotland. Complete listing. Home to the Scottish Brewing Archive.
- Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature (London). Overview of its sources for economic history, virtual exhibition.
- Great Exhibition Collection The core of the Great Exhibition Collection of Reading University Library was acquired from Charles Hasler in 1966. It comprises approximately 150 printed books and periodicals, plus pamphlets and ephemera, approximately 50 prints, and some objects. Although the focus of the collection is the Exhibition of 1851, there is also material concerning the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854, where it became a great entertainment centre, and material pertaining to subsequent exhibitions down to the Festival of Britain of 1951.
- Greater Manchester Record Office - Guides to archives An overview. Holdings include the records of the British Textile Employers' Association, Manchester Stock Exchange, Rochdale Canal Company, Manchester Ship Canal Company, Richard Entwisle, among many others.
- Guide to Holdings - Manuscript Collections - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham Go to Business records: Records of Nottinghamshire businesses and employees' organisations.
- Guildhall Library (London). Overview of its sources for social and economic history.
- Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE). One of the largest repositories of business records in the US. Online catalog (Web). Information on the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society.
- Harry Bass Business History Collection The Harry W. Bass Business History Collection contains books, microforms, videos, and journals on a number of topics including the histories of business leaders and firms, and the economic, social, and political forces that influence the role of business in society.
- Harry W. Bass Business History Collection The Collection houses close to 2000 rare books as well as manuscripts including the archives of J. and W. Seligman Company. The Bass Collection also holds the publications from the Retail Intelligence System (formerly known as Management Horizons). Our most recent acquistion is the Robert Kahn Collection on Retailing History.
- Hessische Wirtschaftsarchive A guide (Hessisches Archiv-Dokumentations- und Informations-System - HADIS) to the important collections in Frankfurt/M, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt etc, including those of AEG, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Degussa, Hoechst, Merck etc.
- Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt. general information, collections, publications, links.
- Histoire et Archives Credit Lyonnais Archives historiques du Crédit Lyonnais.
Dans le cadre du rapprochement entre Crédit Agricole SA et le Crédit
Lyonnais, les équipes de la Mission historique du Crédit Agricole et
des Archives historiques du Crédit Lyonnais ont fusionné pour former
les Archives historiques groupe, rattachées au Secrétariat central de
Crédit Agricole SA.
- Historisch Centrum Overijssel (Zwolle). Archival index to the extensive business history collections.
- Historische boekencollectie Fortis ASR Important international historical book collection on life insurance (16th-20th centuries). The collection is housed at Fortis ASR, Utrecht.
- Historische Sammlungen der Bahn Fotocollection, collection of prints, collection of books and the company archives.
- Historisches Archiv BMW Group See also the introduction by Claudia Adelberger Das Historische Archiv System der BMW Group im Internet, published in Archiv und Wirtschaft Heft 3 (2002).
- History of Advertising Trust Archive (Raveningham, Norwich). General information.
- Hospitality Industry Archives at the University of Houston. General information.
- HSBC Group Archives (London). [See "about HSBC" - "Group History"] Brief overview of the rich archival collections of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which include the records of Midland Bank, among others.
- Hudson's Bay Company Archives at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba. Holdings information.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- Ibach-Archiv (Schwelm). Overview of the business archive of Rud. Ibach Sohn, a piano manufacturer.
- ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa Information about the Institute; online library catalogue; an overview of the collections in the Arquivo de História Social; access to several research databases.
- Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives (Stratford, CT). General holdings information.
- Institut für Weltwirtschaft at the University of Kiel. Home to the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftwissenschaften ZBW.
- Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
- Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo.
- Institution of Electrical Engineers Archives Department (London). Holdings information, virtual exhibition.
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Information and Library Services (London). Information on the library and archival collections.
- Insurance Library Association of Boston A rich specialized collection, but access is restricted.
- International Monetary Fund Official site, access to the joint library network of the IMF and the World Bank.
- Inventari dell'Archivio Storico Banca Intesa
- Irish Railway Record Society Journal, collections information.
- Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane National central library catalog.
- Istituto Luzzatti (Rome). Cooperative studies. Brief overview of the collections.
- Italgas - Archivio storico (Turin). General information.
- J.C. Penney Archives Overview of the collections.
- Jay Miller Aviation History Collection at the Central Arkansas Library System (Little Rock, AR). General information, images.
- Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History. Exhibits on the history of invention and innovation, finding aids for the Western Union and Computer Oral History collections, among others.
- John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History at Duke University. Overview of the collections, including the J. Walter Thompson Company Archives.
- Killam Library at Dalhousie University. Business and labour archives from Atlantic Canada. General holdings information.
- King's College, Modern Archives: Collections of Personal Papers The Centre's personal paper collections are especially strong in the fields of early twentieth century literature, fine art and economics. Particularly well documented are among others the lives and works of the economists J.M. Keynes, Joan Robinson, Richard Kahn and Nicholas Kaldor.
- Les fonds anciens de la bibliothèque de l'Ecole des mines de Paris Catalogue, online exhibitions, guides etc.
- Lilly Library at the University of Indiana at Bloomington. Holds various business archives. Online inventories.
- Liverpool University Archives - Holdings
- London School of Economics Archives The collections held in the archives cover modern British political, economic and social history, the history of the social sciences with particular reference to Economics and Social Anthropology, and the history of the London School of Economics & Political Science. The material dates mainly from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present day. See also Library Archives
- Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Documents "relating to the history of sea-based activities in the North Atlantic region". Extensive holdings information, online catalog (Web).
- Melbourne University Archives List of its extensive holdings of business and labour archives, finding aids.
- Mémorial Léon H. Dupriez Le fonds Dupriez at IRES, Louvain-la-Neuve, contains:
publications by L.H. Dupriez and his collaborators, bibliography and his personal library.
- Milwaukee Urban Archives at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Local business and labour records. Extensive guide to the holdings.
- Minnesota Historical Society Library One of the largest repositories of business records in the US, part of whom are listed in the catalog.
- Modern Records Centre at the Library of the University of Warwick in Coventry. Records of the Trades Union Congress, the British Confederation of Industry and other union and company archives. Summary guide to the holdings.
- Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. Information on its extensive archival, library and audiovisual holdings, and its Bibliography of British Rural History.
- Museum und Archiv für Arbeit und Industrie im Viertel unter dem Wienerwald (Wiener Neustadt). General information.
- National Archive for the History of Computing at the University of Manchester. Detailed holdings information.
- National Gas Archive (Manchester). The company archive of British Gas plc. Overview of the collections.
- Nederlands Centrum voor Autohistorische Documentatie (Arnhem). General information.
- Newberry Library (Chicago, IL). An independent research library, with some business archives. General holdings information.
- Noel Butlin Archives Centre at Australian National University, formerly the Archives of Business and Labour. List of the holdings.
- NY Public Library Digital Gallery NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. See especially: Industry & Technology.
- Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation: Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Catalog of an Exhibition of Prints from the Arnold and S. Bleichroeder In 1986, Baker Library issued an exhibition catalog titled Coin and Conscience, written by Ruth Rogers, then curator of the Kress Library at Baker Library. The images selected by Ms. Rogers for inclusion in the catalog represent the major thematic divisions of the Bleichroeder Collection, while also displaying its geographic and stylistic diversity. The publication provides introductory text, detailed descriptive information about seventy prints from the collection, an artist index, and a bibliography for further study.
- Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre General information.
- Pennsylvania State Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections & Labor Archives Major labour and business archives. Overview of the collections, more details on the United Steelworkers of America Archive and Oral History Collection.
- Private Archives Association
- Records for the Study of Labor and Business History in the National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region The National Archives-Pacific Region is a major source for research in labor and business history. It maintains historical records of Federal agencies in northern California, Hawaii, Nevada (except Clark County), American Samoa, and the Pacific Trust Territories.
- Research Guide to Soviet History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General bibliography prepared by Donald J. Raleigh, and based on materials at the Davis Library.
- Resources for the Study of Businessmen and Businesses Special Collections of the University Library of Iowa holds a number of collections directly related to businessmen and businesses that date from the late 19th century into the 20th century. An effort in the 1960's to collect the historical records of Iowa businesses means that many of these collections are specific to Iowa. Records of businessmen include the papers of a number of people who went on to become politicians. Records of companies reflect a strong manufacturing industry in Iowa, and include the records of a locomotive manufacturer, an elevator company, a maker of moving image equipment, and a manufacturer of desks.
- Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (Cologne). One of the major business archives repositories in Germany. General information, from the site of the Chamber of Commerce in Cologne.
- Rockefeller Archive Center (North Tarrytown, NY). List of the holdings.
- Rothschild Archive run by a charitable trust set up in 1999, holds over two million items drawn together from the history of the Rothschild banks and family. At the core of the Archive lie the records of the firm of NM Rothschild & Sons, the London branch of the banking dynasty, supplemented by a growing range of acquisitions of papers from members of the Rothschild family. The Archive represents possibly the most detailed surviving record of an international banking operation in the 19th and early 20th centuries and of a family with artistic, charitable and scientific interests at the heart of European society.
- Royal Society of Chemistry Library and Information Centre General information on its historical chemistry information service.
- Rutgers University Libraries - Special Collections Finding aids to the records of Consumers' Research Inc and the Modern School Collection, among others.
- Sächsisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (Leipzig). Brief information on the collections.
- Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv at the University of Basel. Online catalog (Web) of its private collections.
- Science Museum Library (London). Online catalog (telnet).
- Science, Industry and Business Library at the New York Public Library.
- Scotiabank Archives (Toronto). Overview of the collections.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
- Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg General information.
- Sources for the History of Agriculture and Rural Life Iowa State University. Detailed overview of the archival holdings in the University Library.
- South Wales Coalfield Collection at the University of Wales Swansea Library. Holdings information.
- State Archives of Michigan List of the holdings among others business records.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Archives Division Important business and labour collections, among them the records of McCormick-International Harvester, and the American Federation of Labor and other unions. Online catalog (telnet).
- Steam Engine Library at the University of Rochester. Online historical books.
- Stiftelsen för Ekonomisk Historisk Forskning inom Bank och Företagande (Stockholm). Home to the Wallenberg papers and the records of the Enskilda Bank (1856-1971). Detailed indexes of the collections.
- Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (Bochum). Overview of the collections, including those of the Bergbau-Bücherei Essen, the Institut für soziale Bewegungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and the Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau und Energie.
- Stiftung Historisches Erbe der SBB The Infothek der Stiftung Historisches Erbe der SBB (SBB Historic) is the historical archive and library of the Swiss Railways.
- Stockholms Företagsminnen General information on this regional business archives repository, with a list of its holdings.
- Suomen Elinkeinoelämän Keskusarkisto (Mikkeli). The Central Archives for Finnish Business Records. Overview of the collections.
- Syracuse University Library - Television History Archive Detailed overview of the collections.
- Telecom Italia: archivio storico (Turin). General information.
- The Library of Congress. American Memory Collections Technology and Industry: a survey of collections.
- Thematis Erfgoed Portaal Thematis Erfgoed Portaal geeft toegang tot miljoenen objecten uit beelddatabanken, bibliotheken, kranten en tijdschriften, archieven, akten en registers, genealogische databases, musea en catalogi van Nederlandse erfgoedinstellingen.
- Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University. Chronology, searchable database.
- Thomas J. Dodd Research Center - Archives and Special Collections at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Important labour and business archives. List of the collections, with more detailed information on some.
- Thomas J. Long Business and Economics Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Offers a guide to Internet Resources in Business and Economics and access to databases.
- Thomas J. Watson Library of Business and Economics at Columbia University. General information.
- University of British Columbia Manuscript Collections Information on the labour and business records, especially in fishing, foresting and mining.
- University of London Library Home to the Goldsmiths' Collection on economic history. Online catalog (telnet).
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Manuscripts Department Provides a good list of links in Selected Business History Resources.
- University of Wollongong - Archives and Manuscripts Collections Overview of the substantial labour and business history holdings.
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the business history holdings.
- Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Detailed guide to its rich collections.
- Where Have All the [Business] Archives Gone? at the Australian Society of Archivists. An article on business archives in Australia, by Kathryn Dan and Bruce Smith (1999).
- William J. Parish Memorial Business and Economics Library at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. General information, web guides.
- Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Württemberg
- Wirtschaftsarchiv der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen
Fakultät der Universität zu Köln
- Wirtschaftsarchive im Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Wright State University Libraries - Special Collections and Archives (Dayton, OH). Strong in aviation history. Listings of its local and regional business history holdings.
- Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Ohio). List of finding aids and online catalog.
- Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung. The Central Archive archives primary material (data, questionnaires, code plans) and results of empirical studies in order to prepare them for secondary analyses and to make them available to the interested public.
- Zinc Institute Archives at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA). Finding aid.
National Repositories and Guides
- Access to Archives A2A The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
- Archiefbank Vlaanderen Register van private archieven.
- Archiefnet Archiefnet offers links with archives in the Netherlands and abroad (also with a large number of other organisations in the historical field).
- ArchiEspa at the Carlos III University (Madrid). Directory of Spanish archives.
- Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland by Andreas Hanacek (Wangen im Allgäu). Links to German archives.
- Archive in Österreich (Archives in Austria).
- Archives Canada Your Gateway to Canada's Past.
- Archives Hub A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.
- Archives in Germany An Introductory Guide to Institutions and Sources. GHI Reference Guides.
- Archives nationales de France On the server of the Ministry of Culture.
- Archives of Australia Gateway A collaboration between the National Archives of Australia, the State and Territory archives, and a number of other Australian archive organisations.
- ARCHON is the principal online information gateway for archivists in the United Kingdom and users of manuscript sources for British history. It is hosted and maintained by the HMC and is divided into two sections, the ARCHON Directory and the ARCHON Portal.
- arkivalieronline.dk The Danish State Archives Filming Centre digitises parish registers and population censuses in order to make them accessible via the Internet.
- Australian Libraries Gateway.
- BedrijfsArchieven Register Nederland at the Netherlands Economic History Archive. A register of company archives in the Netherlands.
- Biblioteca Nacional The National Library of Spain.
- Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte at the University of Hannover. Links to German libraries.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France The French national library. Its Gallica project offers a large collection of digitized publications on topics like industrial and world fairs, among many others.
- British Library
- Bundesarchiv The German national archives.
- Canadian Library Gateway
- CCA Directory of Archival Repositories at the Canadian Council of Archives.
- CommunityArchives.org.uk This website has been set up to show the variety and quantity of community
archives in the UK. It's a meeting-place where archives can publicise their work and share their experiences.
- Danish National Research Database
- DANPA Danmarks Nationale Privatarkivdatabase. Danish private archives from a variety of persons, societies, organizations, institutions, businesses, shops etc. are collected and preserved by a great number of cultural institutions.
- Databank archiefinstellingen en -bewaarplaatsen in Nederland en Vlaanderen Database Dutch and Flemish Archive Repositories, maintained by Eric Hennekam.
- Deutsche Bibliothek The German national library.
- Directory of Archives in Australia at the University of Melbourne.
- Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada at Hunter Information Management Services Inc. February 1999 edition prepared by Amy Fischer and Liz Holum Johnson for the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists.
- Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada at Hunter Information Management Services Inc. February 1999 edition prepared by Amy Fischer and Liz Holum Johnson for the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists.
- Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries General Subject Index, Primary Subject Index, Collections Index, Institutions Index.
- DiVA In DiVA you can find theses, dissertations and other publications in full-text from a number of Nordic universities.
- Guide to Australian Business Records at the Australian Society of Archivists.
- Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane National central library catalog.
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek The national library of the Netherlands.
- Libraries Australia Libraries Australia is a modern Internet-based service for Australian libraries and their users. It provides access to the national database of material held in Australian libraries, known as the Australian National Bibliographic Database. You can search for any item and locate which library in Australia holds it. Gateways to other major library databases are also provided.
- Library and Archives Canada Search Canada's national collection of books, historical documents, government records, photos, films, maps, music...and more.
- Library of Congress
- Nationaal Archief The national archives.
- National Archive Database
- National Archive for the History of Computing at the University of Manchester. Detailed holdings information.
- National Archives Maintains ARCHON, a directory of British archival repositories, and the National Register of Archives
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Archives of Canada
- National Archives of Ireland See especially: Business Records Survey searchable database of part of ca 5,000 company archives surveyed since 1970.
- National Register of Archives and Manuscripts (NRAM).
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress.
- Norske Privatarkiver - Samtkatalogen
- Online-Kataloge des Österreichischen Bibliothekenverbundes
- Public Record Office of England and Wales.
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
- Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts (RAAM). National Library of Australia.
- Repertorium der handschriftlichen Nachlässe in den Bibliotheken und Archiven der Schweiz at the Swiss National Library. Directory of personal papers.
- Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv at the University of Basel. Online catalog (Web) of its private collections.
- Scottish Archive Network The Scottish Archive Network's aim is to open up Scotland's rich archival heritage to everyone. Over the course of this three-year project the SCAN will revolutionise access to Scottish Archives, their catalogues and contents.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
- Switch Swiss Libraries
- Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
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