A collection of online research databases, updated periodically by Mullaney and Rea.
Please send nominations of additional databases and archives to admin@whereresearchbegins.com
Review: pp. 27-33 of Where Research Begins
Archives Africa: https://archives-africa.org/
Archives West: https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/
Arizona Archives Online: http://azarchivesonline.org/xtf/search
Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Buddhist Digital Archives: https://library.bdrc.io/?uilang=en
Chicago Collections: https://chicagocollections.org/
Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI): http://www.cendari.eu/
Digital Public Library of America: https://dp.la/
East Texas Digital Archives: https://digital.sfasu.edu/digital/collection/RSP
Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/en/
Foreign Relations of the United States: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments
Gilder Lehrman Institute: https://www.gilderlehrman.org
HathiTrust: https://www.hathitrust.org/
Indian Princely States Online Legal History Archive https://site.ipsolha.org
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
Latin American & Caribbean Resources at Yale University (Digital Archives): https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296199&p=1976695
Library and Archives Canada: https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/collections/
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library: https://www.lib.umt.edu/research-find/digital-collections/default.php
National Archives (U.S.): https://www.archives.gov/research
New Mexico Archives Online: https://rmoa.unm.edu
North Carolina Digital Collections: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/
NYPL Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/
Portal to Texas History: https://texashistory.unt.edu/
Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives: https://sova.si.edu
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA): https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/
TARO (Texas Archival Resources Online): https://txarchives.org/home
Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au/
WorldCat: https://worldcat.org/