Databases & Digital Collections

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

Duke University Libraries, Ottoman-Turkish Literature

Historical documents and ephemera, digitized rare books and other items, including archaeological conservation project documentation, geographic dictionaries, movie posters, and other photos and documents recording cultural heritage and historical events.

An overview of EU libraries and the historical archives of the EU institutions. Access the European Library and Docurama.

United Nations Databases & More, organized by topic

Jan Szczepanski maintains what is probably the world’s largest list of open access journals in the humanities and social sciences, which he makes publicly available. View the list of journals.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources - including OA materials. For researchers who are unafiliated with an institution that provides subscription access, perform your search first, then narrow the results using the left-side menu for "ACCESS TYPE: Content I can access."

Get involved in the EBSCO Open Dissertations project and make your electronic theses and dissertations freely available to researchers everywhere.

Lists EBSCO open access resources

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Database of full-text OA books from more than 600 publishers.

More than 600 of its publications are Open Access (OA). View them here.