Active 1998-2015

Maintained by the University of Pittsburgh. Includes EU documents, journal articles and research papers

Important Brussels based think tank that freely offers the full text of its publications

Digitised travel accounts of medieval & early modern Europe

Free digitised versions of many EU publications, including some older titles.

Official gateway to the European Union.

Portal to the collections of 48 national libraries (no longer updated after end 2016)

Largely free digital collections covering art, music, fashion, photography from libraries, museums, galleries & archives across Europe.

System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe provides open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe. It allows you to export records and locate the documents. Examples of grey (gray) literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, some official publications, and other types of grey literature. OpenGrey covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and Humanities.Bibliographic data only - not full text

UK body for academic research on Europe. Publishes the Journal of Common Market Studies. Also maintains an online directory of expertise Expert on Europe

Free digitised newspapers covering the period 1831-1950 from the Bibliotheque royale de Belgique

Open access Belgian periodicals, digitised by the national library KBR. Coverage is 1813-

Maintained by the National Library of Finland. It provides free access to a searchable database of journal articles from over 600 scholarly journals published in Finland from 1990 onwards. All areas of the sciences, social sciences and humanities are covered

Cooperative project by Francophone universities and others in Europe (France, Switzerland, Belgium) and Canada to provide a searchable listing of archives relating chiefly to publishers and publishing (1945-2015). A few items have been digitised.

Website for the public library service of Paris, which includes rare & interesting digitised content

An initiative of a number of French publishing houses and institutions. It aims to provide access to ejournal articles from French language academic journals covering a wide range of social science and humanities subject areas. Access to most of the full text articles requires a subscription. However some can be downloaded free of charge. Materials date from approximately 2001 onwards

Union catalogue of the archives and manuscripts held by key French universities, archives and national research institutes, covering all subject areas of the arts, humanities and social sciences

Amazing collection of recordings of oral recordings by French researchers. Many (but not all) in French, these could be of interest to linguists, anthropologists & historians

Free access from the Bibliotheque Nationale to digitised collections of millions of items, including digitised newspapers

Founded in 1991, H-France is the largest forum in the Anglophone world for the study of France, with a focus on digital resources

Extensive archive of video & audio resources available online

Free access to a wide range of humanities & social sciences academic books & journals, backed by CNRS and EHESS. Journals are mostly back files with a moving wall

Index to journal articles from CNRS-Inist. FRANCIS covers social sciences & humanities. 1972-

Launched in 2004, Persee is a portal to back runs of French language social & human sciences journals, including law, politics, history & sociology. Most titles operate on a rolling wall basis with a 3-5 year embargo on current volumes

Project by the Bibliotheque Nationale. Lists local French newspapers prior to 1944, with links to digitised runs where available

Sciences Po database covering journal literature in humanities & social sciences, with much available as full text. Coverage 1983-

Union catalogue, primarily of French university libraries. Over 12 million items included

Portal to digital resources from nearly 2000 contributing institutions, includes historic newspapers (1670-1950) -
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper

Basic collection of German-language texts across disciplines and genres with a focus from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

Portal to online full text German language scholarly journals, some of which are freely available

Guide from the British Library, includes links to union catalogues, major libraries, databases, etc.

Portal to German federal and regional data

Aims to provide free access to research output (books, articles, conference papers, eprints, reports) from researchers based in leading German universities

Extensive lists of resources (note: some only available to University of Warwick members)

Over 100 historic (19th century - 1990s) online newspapers in German, provided by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Registration required to view full text

Major portal to bibliographic resources maintained by the National Documentation Centre of Greece. Free access to a number of catalogues and databases. These include: GLAFKA Database on the Greek society and Hellenism; European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) database; listings of Greek PHD theses; HELM -Official Gazette of Greece, 1833-1847; The Bibliography of Modern Greek History (1973-1982) and HELLECON Scientific Publications for the Greek Economy

National Hellenic Research Foundation open access repository

Offers access to many digitised newspapers from the 19th & 20th centuries

digital library of Greek culture

Open access repository for Icelandic research output

Full text digital newspapers and magazines from Iceland, Greenland and the Faeroes, including almost all newspapers published before 1920

Great free electronic library of primary source documents and resources relating to the history of Ireland and its migration experience from the 18th to late 20th centuries. Includes the Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
1801-1922 (EPPI) full text of nearly 14 000 British parliamentary papers on Ireland

IVRLA aims to make freely available digitised collections of printed, audio, video, and image materials from University College Dublin in the humanities and social sciences.

The National Library of Ireland database for research, indexes resources covering Irish economic, social, political and cultural history. Includes records of all the National Library's manuscripts catalogued up to the 1980s; Irish manuscripts held in other libraries and archives in Ireland and worldwide, listed between the 1940s and the 1970s; Articles, reviews and other content that appeared in over 150 Irish periodicals up to 1969

Contains materials from Irish Film Institute IFI Player collections including The Bord Fáilte Film Collection, The Irish Adverts Project, The Father Delaney Collection, The Loopline Collection, and The Irish Independence Film Collection. It also has items from the London Irish Centre. It includes special sections on Irish, history culture

Photographs and film footage documenting events and society in 20th century Italy, from L'Unione Cinematografica Educativa (LUCE), founded in 1924. An important & extensive audio-visual archive

Database of immigrant writers in Italian, founded by Armando Gnisci (1946-2019) in 1997 and includes translingual and new generation migrant women and writers. Includes both literary and critical works

freely available digital library of texts representative of the Italian cultural and literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Database of Italian academic journals & articles in the social sciences, history & law, with limited search facility

Offers over 1000 open access academic books & journals in Italian

Bio-bibliographies for an extensive list of Italian women authors born before 1945, with a growing number of full text writings by the authors included

Useful index and abstracts of articles published in Italian Studies journals since 2000, mostly in the arts & humanities subject areas

Union catalogue of Italian libraries

Culture portal from national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana)

Huge database of ebooks from major Italian supplier Casalini. Includes material in French, German, Spanish & Other languages as well. Note that the library does not currently subscribe to content on this database

Free access to social science datasets from the Netherlands

Access to Dutch historical texts from the digital collections of scientific institutions, libraries and heritage institutions. All topics, 17th-20th centuries

Extensive digital resources from the Dutch national library

Portal to scholarly output held by Dutch university repositories, including e-theses

Digitised Dutch parliamentary papers 1814-1995

Free access to Dutch census returns up to 1971

Searchable catalogue of materials held in open access institutional repositories in Norway

Ongoing project by the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal to digitise key documents from its collections

Universidade do Algarve digital archive of newspapers & magazines from the Algarve, 1810-1949

Great collection of digitised newspapers published in Lisbon from 1715 onwards

Part of H-Net (Humanities & Social Sciences Online), this website maintains a great range of links to online resources for all aspects of Portuguese studies

A portal providing free access to research output from a number of institutional repositories of Portuguese universities (some full text)

Open access repository for Serbian academic publications, including PhD theses -
https://doiserbia.nb.rs/phd/

Portal to Serbian academic publications

Project of the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana, provides access to a wealth of material from the 15th to the 19th centuries. The BNE also offers full text access to hundreds of national & regional newspapers through its Hemeroteca Digital

Major Spanish digitisation project involving over 45 Spanish universities & providing free access to journals in the humanities & social sciences from the 18th century onwards

Institutional repository of the Spanish National Research Council

Ministry of Culture portal to digital archives & repositories in Spain

A project of Consorci de Biblioteques Universitaries de Catalunya. It provides free access to journal articles and reviews from academic Catalan journals mainly published by university and research presses in the region

Research publications & dissertations (some full text) from Swedish universities

Swedish government's official data repository

National e-repository for over 30 universities

Union catalogue of Swiss libraries

Project from Universität Bonn to digitise Ottoman & Turkish periodicals 1860-1945

Digital archive of Ottoman periodicals, included in the Hakki Tarik Us Collection, which is currently kept at the Beyazit State Library in Istanbul

Over 6000 photographs & images covering the late Ottoman period and Republic, 1850-1958, digitised by the Getty Foundation Library

Independent UK press with strong interests in Turkish & Kurdish studies, especially in relation to migration & communities in the UK

Free access to references to articles covering all subject areas published since 1995. Compiled by the National Library of Turkey

Index to Turkish social sciences publications from 2002

National Library of Wales project

Ongoing projects coordinated by the National Library of Wales to provide full text access to Welsh periodicals (in Welsh or English) published 1735-2007

Full text historic newspapers (1804-1919)