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CANADA
Aboriginal Canada Portal
ACP is resource to access First Nations, Inuit and Metis on-line resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services in Canada.
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Open Archives Metadata Harvester
The harvester is a search service for the CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project and aggregates material from each of the participating Canadian institutions, allowing users to seamless search all of the repositories at once, using one common point of access.
Canadiana Discovery Portal
This portal helps you to discover online digital content from collections across Canada.
Gateway Manitoba (Digital Alliance of Manitoba)
Gateway Manitoba is your way to access the cultural heritage of the people of Manitoba.
MemoryBC
A portal where you can access descriptions of archival materials preserved in repositories throughout the province.
Multicultural Canada
Archives and libraries have long worked with individuals and cultural communities in Canada to collect and preserve the historical record of their experience; but these documents are seldom available beyond the walls of the institution. The intent of Multicultural Canada is to provide free and greater access to these existing collections.
Our Future Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project
This is an ongoing, not-for-profit endeavour to provide all those interested in Alberta’s history free, online access to cultural and heritage materials.
Our Ontario
Our Ontario services advance the discovery and sharing of Ontario digital content by developing cutting- edge technologies for use by a diverse group of content organizations. We partner with cultural heritage and community content organizations, offering our expertise in search technologies, and providing free tools, hosting and user interface for digital collections.
Our Roots
Our Roots is a library, archive, museum and school all in one. Check the collection to find Canadian local histories in French and English.
West Beyond The West: British Columbia’s history, heritage, and culture
WBTW is digital images, text, audio and video materials about British Columbia history, heritage and culture. Search the collections of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, heritage and community groups, government agencies, and private collections in British Columbia and across Canada…via a single search portal. Search results link you to the digital content on a contributing partner’s web site.
UNITED STATES
American Memory (Library of Congress)
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
ibiblio
Home to one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
Online Archive of California
The OAC provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California campuses.
INTERNATIONAL
Digital Universe
The Digital Universe is a new, free, online information resource, a Web application that lets users view an editorially defined subset of credible information. Call it a PBS of the Internet. The vision of the Digital Universe is to create a space in which it will be possible to organize the sum total of human knowledge and make it available to everyone.
europeana: Paintings, music, films and books from Europe’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums
Europeana links to over 6 million digital objects which include paintings, music, films and books from Europe’s galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.