Databases & Digital Collections

This archive is an exhaustive collection of drawings, photographs and documents relating to the codes and practices of the Russian Criminal Tattoo. The portal to this archive includes a shop, where people can purchase the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia (3 vols.), postcards, posters, and Archive book. The portal also depicts images of tattoos (and the corresponding people), along with providing histories behind the people and images, other information from and about Russian police files is also included. All images © FUEL.

This is a searchable catalog De Gruyter's open access publications. Books are mostly in German or English, but also French, Italian, Spanish, and more. Topics include history, literary studies, linguistics, classics, theology, philosophy, etc. The full catalog is also accessible via this webite.

QDL is making a vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualised explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic.

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This collection consists of official government websites for Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan and provides an overview of the political, economic, administrative and social situation in these four countries. Several of these governmental websites contain information in English, Urdu, Persian (Farsi and Dari dialects), Pashto, Tajik and Russian languages. The depth of information is best for the Urdu, Persian, Pashto and Tajik languages, so pages in all four of these languages have been harvested. Through this archive collection, researchers can track the development and evolution of important political positions, related publications and changes in government agencies and the quasi-governmental organizations (universities, cultural institutions, museums, etc.) that together comprise the current governments of these four countries.

Society of American Archivists

Search or browse the growing collection of digitized posters, photographs, manuscripts, moving images, sound recordings, and other historical materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Includes propaganda, political materials, Cold War, art, speeches, literature. Documenting science and technology, cultural movements. Materials date back through 1874.

Browse and search through thousands of declassified primary-source materials collected by The National Security Archive. BRIEFING BOOKS: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/postings/briefing-books (found under the "POSTINGS" tab) put the documents hosted on the NSArchive website into historical context.

DC-based nonprofit that produces collections of FOIA-released US government documents has a Russian section that includes about 18,000 declassified Russian and Eurasian (including Georgian) documents. Found under the коллекции (Collections) tab.

Website/metadata is available in Ukrainian and English. Over 21,000 Ukrainian language documents; more than 12,000 Russian; hundreds of Polish, Czech, and other European docuemnts. About:..."documents and materials covering the activities of organizations of the Ukrainian liberation movement: the armed underground (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainian Main Liberation Council, etc.), dissident and mass national democratic movement in the second half of the XX century; documents of repressive structures of occupation regimes (NKVD-MGB-KGB, German Gestapo and security service, etc.).The project aims to provide open access to electronic copies of documents on the history of the Ukrainian liberation movement in the XX century. At this stage of implementation [2/2022], the E-archive contains more than 10,000 documents from the collections of the Center for Liberation Movement Studies, and from the Fund 13 of the SBU Branch State Archive "Collection of Printed KGB of the USSR", electronic copies of which were transferred to Lviv National University.

Search maps, atlases, and other geographic data. Includes mine maps, cadastral maps, and more. Locations from around the world.

A compilation of freely available resources in the humanities. Geographical focus is broad/global, linked resources are organized by geography as well as by subject.

Digitized materials from academic and special libraries worldwide.

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 607 billion archived web pages. It is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

University of Wisconsin-Madison digitized collections includes local and foreign historical documents, photographs, cultural artifacts, and maps.

The World Digital Library provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents. From ancient to modern times; scope includes all countries and cultures, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

At HHS, each major organizational component has its own Electronic Reading Room. Scroll down to browse frequently requested records, or click on any of the Operating Division Reading Rooms for more specific documents.

The Official FOIA Reading Room of the Defense Intelligence Agency

"Reading Room" tab (top menu) helps by showing some filter options and allows browsing of collections. Clicking "Historical Collections" (left menu) shows list of all historical collections. Requester portal gives tips for submitting FOIA request and provides FOIA Annual Reports (2001-current).

The Vault is the FBI's new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) processes FOIA requests for two distinct types of records in our legal custody: Operational and Archival. Operational records are the records

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Foreign Relations of the United States

Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO currently provides digital access to 17,262 volumes across 10,148 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries.

For this digitization project, rare books include materials that are outside of copyright as well as several of MEI's out-of-print publications.

Provides online access to unique cultural heritage resources, focusing on Egypt, from the 1700's through present day and, in effect, capturing the transformation of Egypt in that time; including images from rural and urban life.

Ircica, Farabi Ditital Library, Sayısal Kütüphane. Includes Yearbooks; Koran, calligraphy, photographs, manuscripts, and other collections.

Collections Description: al-Ādāb Digital Archives; Arabic Collections Online; Børre Ludvigsen’s Digital Archive; AUB digitized collection of yearbooks; Kamal Joumblatt Digital Library; 165 art posters dates between early sixties until the late twentieth century; Postcards digital collection; Travel books digital collection, mid-19th c to around mid-20th c; Palestinian Oral History Archive; Refugee Cultural Archive