This database provides an overview of prisons in nineteenth-century England, as far as known now. Operational dates, location, jurisdiction, population statistics, and appearances in primary and secondary sources are included. An e-book version of the database is available for download.

Bibliography in the field of conservation and restauration. Contains a.o. the 36 volumes of the printed bibliography Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts.

The complete text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published by the Société des Bollandistes
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Dutch lexicon of literary terms in the broadest sense of the word.

Image database containing ca. 3000 archaeological objects from the Allard Pierson Museum.

The ADB and NDB contains biographical information on almost 46,000 people from the German-speaking regions, from the Middle Ages to present day. NDB contains the names of persons through Täufel.

Annual journal on the current critical analysis of American literature. Contains bibliographic essays on important writers, from pre-1800 to the present.

Multimedia website providing access to digitized documents, spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music. Features more than 100 thematic collections which may be browsed individually, searched individually or searched across multiple collections.

The American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women - from all eras and walks of life - whose lives have have influenced and shaped American history and culture.

Alphabetical list of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies. Contains 1569 titles. With search possibilities within the individual journals.

Bibliography of Classical Antiquity. References to publications (1900-...) on Greek and Roman history, language and culture for the period 2000 B.C. - 800 A.D.

A full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe, from the period 400-1200 A.D.

Archives Biographiques Françaises is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from more than 600 biographical sources, published between 1647 and 2013.

Archives Unbound contains millions of pages of historical documents, dating from the Middle Ages to the end of the last century. The collections contain government documents, monographs, newspapers and correspondence in various fields, interesting for researchers and students of African American studies, British history, holocaust studies, gender studies, Latin America studies, political science, religious studies and much more.

A full-text database of the corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle.

Database of images and texts (both printed and manuscripts), accessible with the help of Iconclass. Particularly useful for emblematic studies.
Arkyves provides single access to collections from places like Glasgow, Tours, Milan, Wolfenbüttel, Utrecht, and The Hague.

Sources about the psychosocial effects of war, violence and other traumatic events.

In one search access to the catalogues of a number of major art libraries in England, Germany, France, the United States The Netherlands and some other countries.
Formerly: Virtueller Kunst Katalog (VKK).

Bibliography of all areas of art history, covers the period 1929-1984.

The ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) project contains several databases, the most important is ARTFL-FRANTEXT: French texts, both fiction and non-fiction, especially from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

The Arthurian Fiction database provides information on medieval Arthurian narratives and the manuscripts in which they are transmitted throughout Europe. It is a work in progress: many records are still waiting for completion. Via Suggestions you may contribute to the database.
The search possibilities are: manuscripts, narratives and persons (patron, scribe, owner). Facets may be used to narrow down your search results.

A&HCI is part of Web of Science.
Web of Science searches the Science Citation Index (1899-...), Social Sciences Citation Index (1898-...), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-...) together.
To search AH&CI only, go to MORE SETTINGS below on the starting page and make sure only AH&CI is selected.

For more information, see Web of Science.

Database on religious studies, theology and many other (areas of) sciences that are significant for theology. Annually about 600 journals and 400 monographs are processed by article.

Besides a library, Atria preserves an extensive archive with, amongst others, material from various women’s organizations, diaries and audio-visual material.

Large bibliographic database for literature in the field of conservation and restoration of cultural artefacts.

The BDMP comprises digital manuscripts of Samuel Beckett and transcriptions. And furthermore the Beckett Digital Library (BDL), a digital reconstruction of Samuel Beckett's personal library.

Online access to thousands of hours of streaming media for higher education in the Netherlands: selections of television and radio programs from public broadcasting, television news programs, etc.
Beeld en Geluid staff can help you finding material or putting together a file of audio-visual material.
See also: Media Suite

BelgicaPress contains more than 4 million digitised Belgian newspaper pages from the period 1831 - 1950. Online you can access newspapers from 1831 - 1918, this period is free of copyright. This selection will grow to 1.2 million pages in 2015. All digitized newspapers are available in the Royal Library in Brussels.

BibleWorks 10.0 contains the text of the bible in the original languages, including variant texts, a great number of ancient and modern translations and associated dictionaries and other reference works.
For access: Logon with your SolisID preceded by soliscom\. A Remote Desktop window opens, click BibleWorks 10. In the next window, click Connect.
For operating systems other than Windows it is necessary to install Microsoft Remote Desktop. Check with the suppliers the installation guide, for example MAC or Android.

A bibliography of Dutch and Flemish literary magazines. References from 2001 onwards.

This bibliography contains references (1940-.…) to articles and books on Dutch linguistics and literature.

Bibliography of Frisian linguistics and literature. Contains articles, books and electronic publications. Literature over the periods 1940-1945 and 1960-2001 is available completely, 1946-1959 is not yet available, 2002-2007 is partly available.

Online version of the bibliography by the same name. Contains references from 1985 onwards. Based on the holdings of Frankfurt University Library.
Also known as the 'Köttelwesch'.

BLLDB is the online version of the Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLL). The BLLDB offers references to books and articles on general, Germanic and Romance Linguistics, from 1971 onwards.

Bibliography of French literature, from 1991 onwards. The years 1956 to 1990 are available as PDF.

International bibliography on all areas of Western art history. Contains also RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art, 1975-1989). The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
For material published after 2007 please consult the International Bibliography of Art (IBA).

Continuation of the print edition.

Catalogue of the national library of Spain in Madrid.

Catalogue of the national library of Portugal.

Website of the national library of Brasil.

Digital library for Spanish literature. Contains both information about authors and texts.

Research library for the modern visual arts.

Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BN-Opale Plus).

The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta & Impressa contains documentation of and about medieval Dutch manuscripts.

Library Catalogue in the field of military scientific literature.

Diplomatic editions of Middle Dutch texts

General Bibliography of Italian Language and Literature. Contains references to books and journal articles. Covers bibliographic publication years 1991-2010. Will be updated yearly.

Bibliography of books, journal articles and other information about the history of Utrecht University.

Image database containing approximately two million pictures of works of art and architecture in Germany and other countries in Europe. Contains the Marburger Index with supplementary material. Images are provided with explanations and sometimes contain references. You can search by place, artist, person portrayed and theme (Iconclass classification).
N.B. Many twentieth century works of art lack photographs, but do contain explanations.

Biographical Archive of the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from almost 200 biographical sources, published between 1581 and 1998.

Information about more than 2500 famous Dutch persons (in Dutch).

Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the early church.

The Biography Portal of the Netherlands gives access to biographical information on more than 80,000 persons from the history of the Netherlands, from the earliest times to the present. The Portal does not include people who are still alive. The database is regularly updated with new names.

Guide to bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference works on Dutch literature.

Digitized volumes from the series Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën. You can search all volumes simultaneously to find the occurrence of a particular word.
The site also contains a couple of digitized historical journals.

Library catalogue of the Boekman Foundation, study centre for arts, culture and related policy.

BHO is the international bibliography in the field of the history of the printed book, the book trade and libraries.

Book Sales Catalogues Online contains the full text of approximately 4,000 book sales catalogues printed in the Dutch Republic before 1801. Each catalogue is provided with a transcription of the title page and a description. These data are searchable, not the full text of the catalogues.

Titles of books and articles about all kinds of subjects (history, art, folklore, literature, genealogy, toponymy, archeology, etc.) refering to the province of Noord-Brabant (only in Dutch)

Brepolis is a portal of Brepols Publishers, and offers access to the files listed below. Click on "Enter databases" in the opening page and scroll to select a file.

• International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), with references to articles from periodicals and miscellany volumes from 1967 onwards
• Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale (BCM) with references to monographs and miscellany volumes from 1957 onwards
• Lexikon des Mittelalters Online: lexicon of the Middle Ages: covers Europe and the Byzantine, Arabian and Jewish world
• International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages: supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters Online
• Europa Sacra: information on medieval prelates and dioceses in Europe
• Vetus Latina: collection of biblical texts, translated into Latin, in use before the Vulgate became predominant. These citations from the Church Fathers range from the second to the eighth century
• Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature: a full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe. from the period 400-1200 A.D.
• Aristoteles Latinus Database: a full-text database of the corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle
• Library of Latin Texts: collection of Latin texts from the Antiquity, the Patristic periods, the Middle Ages, from 736 to 1500 and neo-Latin texts from the Renaissance to the Second Vatican Coucil (1962-1965)
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica: selection from the electronic databases of the MGH: Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae and Antiquitates
• Database of Latin Dictionaries: nine dictionaries (Latin, Latin-French, Latin-English)

Full text books and periodicals in the field of the humanities and social sciences.

In-depth critical scholarship on all the main aspects of the Sikh traditions.

Digital version of the original 2009 print edition.

Website containing a wealth of British source materials, both primary and secundary. Searchable by subject, period and region. Search possibilitoes can be combined in the Browse mode.

Digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of contents, history, etc.

Explore the British Library: circa 14 million records for the Library's holdings of books, journals, newspapers, conferences, maps, scores etc.
See also: All online British Library catalogues.

Reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology)

Electronic version of the Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland.

Collection of French electronic journals in the humanities, the social sciences, geosciences and econmics.

Contains The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (with books on literary periods and movements), The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (with books on individual philosophers) and The Cambridge Companions to Music (with books on individual composers).

Cambridge Histories Online contains over 290 handbooks on American and British history, economic history, general history, ancient history, history of science, history of the book, language and linguistics, literary studies, music, philosophy, political and social theory, regional hisory, religious studies, theatre and performing arts, and warfare.

The French union catalogue

Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum, the digital catalogue of letters archived in the Netherlands.

This catalogue lists all professors who have held chairs at Utrecht University, from its foundation in 1636 until the present. It includes information on their education, appointment and teaching commitment at this university, as well as some personal data, such as date of birth and date of death. The catalogue sheds some light on the history and development of Utrecht University. It offers an overview for researchers, who can trace the trends in science during any given period. Furthermore it also intends to support policy, tracking for instance the number of women at this university. And of course it helps answer questions on specific professors. The Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae was launched on the occasion of the 375th anniversary of the founding of Utrecht University, at which point it recorded almost 2,600 professors.

Dutch historical statistical documents from the 19th and 20th century.

Bibliografie met Amerikaanse publicaties op het gebied van Keltische taalkunde, letterkunde en cultuur. Literatuurverwijzingen vanaf 1983.

Database of information about and pictures of antique monuments and works of art that were (re)discovered in the 15th and 16th century. Contains descriptions, sources and pictures. For later periods please check: Corpus der antiken Denkmäler, die J. J. Winckelmann und seine Zeit kannten

LLT-A contains Latin texts from the Antiquity, the Patristic periods, the Middle Ages from 736 to 1500 and neo-Latin texts from the Renaissance to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
Incorpated texts are selected by virtue of their having been edited according to best contemporary scholarly practice. Facts relating to the texts such as authorial attribution or the dating are verified.
Series B (LLT-B) is complementary to Series A, and contains different texts.

LLT-B gathers Latin texts of all genres and all periods. LLT-B includes genres such as chronicles, medieval saints’ lives and travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and scientific treatises from the early-modern period. The emphasis is on the online availability of large corpora of texts.
The Library of Latin Texts – Series B is complementary to Series A.

Manual for writing and publishing in American English, with many examples for using the citation style. This version contains the 17th edition (2017) and the 16th edition (2010).

CHILDES is the child language component of the TalkBanksystem. It has contents (transcripts, audio, and video) in over 20 languages from 130 different corpora. Data may be shared by participating researchers.
Teachers/researchers should subscribe to TalkBank. They are invited to contribute new corpora. Membership is free.

Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages from the period 1789-1963. Extensive search possibilities.

Church Missionary Society Periodicals contains publications of the CMS, South American Missionary Society and Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, from 1804-2009. You can search or browse by topic, person or country.

Cinema Context is an encyclopedia on film culture in the Netherlands from 1896 to 1960. The information can be found in four collections, namely films, cinemas, persons and companies.

Texts and thorough comments published by Classiques Garnier in the famous series "Jaune": French literature, including works by lesser-known authors. Furthermore francophone literature and French translations of world literature (Dostoyevsky, Goethe, Shakespeare, ...)

The website of the Clingendael Institute offers many publications in the field of international politics and security.

This project offers free online access to new early music scores produced by leading experts. Different music notations available.

A website published by Stichting A. G. van Hamel voor Keltische Studies, with Celtic texts and manuscripts and a bibliography

CogNet from the MIT Press is a research tool for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community, offering access to more than 750 books, journals and reference works. Topical coverage includes the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropology. Texts can be annotated.

Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

These confidential documents on the Middle East are generated by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. The papers range from letters or telegrams to research reports and texts of treaties.

Medieval French texts from the origins to the fifteenth century.

Collection of French texts from the middle ages to the twentieth century.

Database of information about and pictures of antique monuments and works of art that were known to J.J. Winckelmann (1717-1768) and his contemporaries. Contains descriptions, sources, pictures and references to the works of Winckelmann. Successor to Census of Antique Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance.

The Corpus Gysseling made available here consists of the collection of all thirteenth-century texts that have served as source material for the Early Middle Dutch Dictionary.

This corpus offers contemporary Dutch words from more than 800,000 texts from newspapers, magazines, news broadcasts, and legal materials (from 1814 to 2013).

All the works published in Montaigne’s lifetime and after his death by Marie de Gournay, all the editions published from the 16th to the 20th century, their annotation and critical apparatus.

The catalogue of the library and the archives of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) has a number of famous collections, such as those for the Performing Arts. To search the collection for Dance Research: in the field ‘Collection’ choose ‘Performing Arts Dance Research’ by scrolling down to almost completely below.

Nine dictionaries (Latin, Latin-French, Latin-English).

Bibliography of publications on the history of the Netherlands, the former Dutch colonies and the current Dutch territories overseas. Contains the Repertory of the History of The Netherlands.

Free access to drama texts, mostly in Dutch. Texts may be downloaded in pdf format. The majority of the texts can be printed on demand.

In Delpher you can search more than one hundred million from Dutch newspapers (1618 to 1995), books (16th to 20th century), journals (19th, 20th and 21st century) and radio news bulletins, 1937-1984. Text mining is possible. UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

Website of the National library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) on philosophy in the Netherlands. The site also gives access to Poortmans Repertorium (bibliography of Dutch and Flemish philosophy).
In Dutch only.

Catalogue and collections of the national libraries of Germany. Access to the German national bibliography and the union catalogue of serials

This German pronunciation dictionary provides reliable information regarding the standard forms used by most native speakers of German today.

The collection of German sound recording media dates back to the beginning of sound recording production in the 19th century; the sheet music collection goes back to 1943.
The site also offers a list of links on musicology.

Bibliographic portal for Spanish scientific articles from journals, books and congress proceedings. Indexes journals in all fields of study, but focuses on the humanities, law and social sciences. Sometimes access to the full text of articles is given. Contains doctoral theses. Provides alert services.

Monolingual Portuguese dictionary.

This online edition of the Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) gives biographical information on almost 75,000 people from the entire German-speaking area, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The database contains all articles from the second book edition of DBE. In addition, there are ca. 15,000 short biographical entries for persons who are cited in articles, but do not have their own articles.

This Dictionary of Irish biography contains comprehensive articles on over 9,000 lives of important Irish men and women (who have died by 31 December 2002).

The Dictionary of Middle Dutch by van Verwijs en Verdam (MNW) describes the medieval Dutch lexicon from the period ca 1250 to ca 1550. The dictionary contains about 60,000 entries and consists of nine volumes.

The Dictionary of Old Dutch describes the vocabulary from about 500 to 1200. The so called Corpus Old Dutch consists of over 26,000 attestations, plus ca 15,000 toponyms. ONWB forms part of the Integrated language database GTB.

The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary (A to I) of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language.

Database containing at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date.

Arabic-English dictionary of Qur'anic usage. Ed. by Elsaid Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haseem (2008). Full-text searchable in Arabic and English.

Product of cooperation between the Institut National de la Langue Française (INaLF) and the Académie Française. Contains the words A to PRÉSIDE (A to MAPPEMONDE from volumes 1 and 2, plus MAQUEREAU to PRÉSIDE from separate issues published in the Journal Officiel).

Contains about 49,000 entries and 396,000 synonym relations. Point of departure for the database are seven classical dictionaries (Bailly, Benac, Du Chazaud, Guizot, Lafaye, Larousse and Robert) which have been integrated. Produced by CRISCO laboratory.

The dictionaries by R. Estienne (1552), J. Nicot (1606), P. Bayle (facs. 1740), Féraud (1787-1788), the dictionary of the Académie Française (1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th edition), and Le Trésor de la Langue Française (1971-1994).

The Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland is a biographical index to Dutch women (before 1850).

Large collection of medieval music manuscripts: English polyphony up to 1550 and European polyphony till about 1450. Contains both complete manuscripts (particularly from the UK) and fragments.

Electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Project produced at the University of Wisconsin Madison

A collection of texts containing theological writings, biblical commentaries, social and political works, letters, and polemical treatises. With extensive search possibilities.

This database contains more than 650.000 pages of declassified government papers. It covers U.S. policy decisions since World War II. The documents pertain to 35 different collections, all of which are explained and accounted for in the Collections Guide.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Compiled by the department Afrikaans and Dutch at Potchefstroom campus, North West University. Contains both literature references and complete texts of (older) articles.

Collection of primary and secondary information on Dutch language and literature: literary texts, full text biographic dictionaries and literature surveys.

German version of JSTOR. A number of important scholarly journals have been digitised in their entirety. The contents are often available from the first publication year until two to five years ago. Many journals dat back to the ninteenth century.

Electronic theses produced by scientists at Utrecht University.
As from 2006, theses are stored in electronic form in the Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive. As from November, 2014, this repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
Theses from before 2006 may have been published in electronic form, but most are to be found as printed publications in the catalogue.

Biographical information, electronic version of the printed source (1960-...). The electronic version covers the entire alphabet, and gives updated information on some persons, but in many cases the printed source is more comprehensive.

The Directory of Open Access Journals gives a subject listing of, often fairly new, free online journals. About half of these are searchable on article level.

Electronic theses produced by scientists at Utrecht University.
As from 2006, theses are stored in electronic form in the Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive. As from November, 2014, this repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
Theses from before 2006 may have been published in electronic form, but most are to be found as printed publications in the catalogue.

DER is an online platform containing classic and contemporary ethnographic films, very useful to the undergraduate classroom in the field of anthropology, cultural studies or media studies. Overlaps with Ethnographic Video Online, but also contains over 200 original video’s.

Documentation file of the Centre IIMO on ecumenics and missiology.
References to articles, among others from journals from Africa, Asia and Latin America from ca. 1975-2000 that are not described elsewhere; many of these journals are available in the Missiology collection.

DNPP gives references to publications from and about political parties and politicians in the Netherlands.
For additional (factual) information you may consult Parlement.com.

Digitized primary materials which offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Contains a host of full text books and illustrations. Divided into collections such as the Library of Southern literature and the North American Slave Narratives.
Searchable by subject.

Contains, among others, the following projects:
- CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts – contemporary and historical documentsin the field of history, literature and politics
- Onomasticon Goedelicum (Locus database of Irish placenames) - information on placenames occurring in the Irish literature from the middle ages to early modern times
- Tracing Ireland's lost Archaeology - the Plunket watercolours
- An atlas of Irish names.

Collection of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Contains three distinct collections: British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, Documents on British Foreign Policy 1918-1939 and Documents on British Policy Overseas.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

The Dramaturgy Database contains texts and source descriptions about dramaturgy, with specific attention for theater and dance dramaturgy. The database includes full text interviews with Dutch and Flemish dramaturges or conversations on the development in theater and dance; full text reports; article references with annotation (summary and keywords); dramaturgical files; audiovisual material.

Dictionary of the German language. Offers not just spelling and meaning, but also synonyms and examples of use. Provides information about frequency, origin and pronunciation of words.

The National Bibliography: includes publications which were published in the Netherlands, about the Netherlands, or in the Dutch language.

Dutch official government publications 1814-1995 online (in Dutch).
Official government publications from 1995 onwards are available through the website overheid.nl (in Dutch).

Contains more than 125,000 song descriptions. Most of the song texts are in Dutch, Flemish and Frisian. Sometimes songs in other languages have been included, like French, German and Latin, when these were sung in the Netherlands. The Dutch Song Database runs from Middle Ages through the twentieth century. Each collection or repertoire has its own kind of songs and sources, and its own percentage of completeness.

Classified catalogue of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome, and the latest update of the "Archäologische Jahresbibliographie". Ancient history, art and archeology of Greece and Rome.

More than 100,000 full text books originally published in the United Kingdom and Ireland between the years 1473 and 1700.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Printed books from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, scanned in their entirity at high resolution. Access to the first 500 books from the National Library of the Netherlands that were imported into the database. More titles will be added.

The Early Middle Dutch Dictionary is a scholarly dictionary based on over 2,200 official records dating from the thirteenth century. VMNW is part of the Integrated Language Database (GTB).

Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) is a search engine for correspondence from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A lot of extra information has been added, such as a short description of the content, persons or places mentioned in the letters. With links to a digital copy, if available.

More than 300 volumes of 16th-century music from the British Library, digitised from microfilm. The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. They include music printed in Italy, Germany, France and England. All books have extensive descriptions, including references to RISM B/I.

The EBSCO Academic Search Premier contains approximately 4600 English language journals in all areas of science, almost 3.900 of which are peer-reviewed.

The full text of books and broadsides published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

Online version of the printed Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature 1942-71 and its continuation. Also contains the Bibliography of Irish philology and of printed Irish literature to 1912.

Contains manuscripts, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. Use quotation marks to search for standard word combinations such as "Roman Empire".

Reference work in the field of Iranian history and civilization.

This encyclopedia provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life, knowledge and culture, from the Second Temple period to the present. Second edition, 2007.

Contains the entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition.

The new edition includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century, and attention to Muslim minorities all over the world.

Consists of three volumes: I. Asia Minor, II. Black Sea, III. Constantinople. Also contains the Cultural Portal of the Aegean Archipelago and a digital cultural encyclopedia of Boeotia.

Encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis, extended with essays on themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.

Encyclopedia covering the entire ancient Mediterranean world, including the Near East and Egypt, and spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE.
N.B. To perfom a search, click Search in this Book under SEARCH.

Comprehensive encyclopedia covering all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic and dealing with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic), both synchronically and diachronically.

Encyclopedia (2007) on education, language education, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

The digital version of the 14-volume encyclopedia (2th edition, 2006) offers an overview of all aspects in the field of language and linguistics.

The encyclopedia is not limited to librarianship or information science. But also: archival science, informatics, knowledge management, museum studies, records management, social studies of information.

Encyclopedia (2009) on the psychology and sociology of playing.
This reference work includes information on games, sports and hobbies, in the past and the present, for both adults and children.

Encyclopedia (2011) of the use of social media in movements in society. A wide spectrum of communication formats is included. The encyclopedia does not aim at completeness, although it includes progressive social movements as well as (some) repressive social movements.

EBR offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible in its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. EBR also documents the history of the Bible's reception, both in a religious and in a broader cultural context.

The Encyclopédie d’Yverdon, edited by Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice, is an encyclopedia in the French language published between 1770 and 1780. It has 58 volumes and contains over 77,000 articles. The encyclopedia provides insight in the knowledge available in the second half of the 18th century. The work can also be used for research in the field of the history of ideas.

De eerste editie van L'Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers de Diderot et d'Alembert, ontwikkeld door het ARTFL Project van de Universiteit van Chicago.

Bibliographic database describing books and related materials, printed in the period 1473-1800 in the British Isles, the United States and territories governed by Britain, or materials wholly or partly in English printed elsewhere. The ESTC is also a union list: each record in the file has appended to it a list of locations at which copies of the item may be found.

Contains grammars of languages from different language families from various geographical regions such as Asia and Africa. Does not contain Indo-European languages. Grammars can be read and searched both individually and at the same time, thereby allowing cross-language research.

Archive of American and British journals in the entertainment industry, such as Variety, Billboard, Musical Express, American Film. Full text until 2000.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Part of Corpus CCKC, Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. Contains correspondences of scholars who were active in the Netherlands in the 17th-century. Many letters by Grotius, Constantijn en Christiaan Huygens. Also by Barlaeus, Descartes and several others.
You can search by sender, recipient and words form the full text.

Database of the Educational Resources Information Centre, on didactics and education. Contains the 'Current Index to Journals in Education' and 'Resources in Education'.

Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. The collections contain over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork.

The Ethnologue lists 7,143 languages and includes information on countries and the number of speakers. This is the 16th edition from 2009.

Database and forum for Dutch etymology. Find out about the etymology of Dutch words in twenty dictionaries in one search.

Dutch Etymological Dictionary.

Information on medieval prelates and dioceses in Europe.

Database developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris. Contains references to articles in journals and newspapers as well as books from the period 1991-2007. Consult the Subject headings for (transcriptions of) names.
The years 1975-1990 are available in printed form only.

Research tools and resources for the study of European history.

Access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe. Contains over 25 million digital items and more than 165 million bibliographic records. Among the featured collections are historical newspapers and books that are considered jems.
Searchable by discipline

Database with over 30,000 books on European discovery voyages, Europeans in the Americas and portrayals of native American peoples. Colonial history, slave trade.
Does not offer full text, but gives the holding libraries for the books.

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.

Access to audiovisual archives, television in particualr, throughout Europe from the early 1900s until today. The majority of clips and programmes explore 14 historical topics. Contains thousands of video fragments. EUscreen also offers a number of virtual exhibitions.
Beta version.

Information sources from the entire period of the cinema: reference works on film history and theory, biographies, scenarios; cdroms and dvds with films or film fragments, photos and music. Film related collections such as posters, soundtracks and paper archives of film makers. Newspaper cuttings from mainly Dutch newspapers.

Bibliography containing journal articles on film and television, from 1986 onwards.

Bibliography with references to literature on film festivals worldwide. There is a list of topics (such as On the Red Carpet, Bussiness Matters) with an explanation per topic.

Food Studies Online is an online platform for the study of food and food systems. The collection contains archives, books, posters and over 250 videos of documentaries, interviews and vintage commercials.

The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.
The United States Department of State papers 1861-1960 are available full text. They can be browsed and searched. To start searching, start from the menu in the Browse screen.
Not fully complete, volumes may yet be added.

Database containing core feminist texts from the second wave of feminism in Europe. Books, articles and pamphlets that were influential in the development of feminist ideas in 29 countries. Searchable with English terms.

Corpus of over 4000 French language texts, from the 16th through the 21th century

In Gale Literary Sources you cross-search databases like Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Literature Criticism Online, Contemporary Authors Online, Literature Resources Center and LitFinder to find among other things the full text of literary works, journal articles in the field of literature studies, reviews and author biographies.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research, such as Encyclopedia of Emerging Markets, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Child Development, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Learning and Memory.

Catalogue of the digital publications of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Contains full-text books, newspapers, journals and dictionaries, as well as images, sound recordings and sheet music.

Gender Studies Database includes references to, among other things, journal articles, books and book chapters from 1930 to the present. Essential subjects covered in this resource include gender inequality, masculinity, postfeminism, gender identity and more.

Database providing access to the full text of 151 German journals, year books, collections and anthologies from the beginning of the twentieth century. With tables of content and bibliographical information about the publications involved.

Extensive, annotated bibliography on German literature and linguistics, 2008 – current. Click on READ CONTENT to enter the database.
Older volumes (paper), see: Germanistik, 1960-2009.

Getty Research Institute Library catalogue, Los Angeles

International bibliography in the field of ancient history, archaeology and classical languages.

Index of over 50 million articles, books, dissertations and patents covering all subjects. Google Scholar gives you also citation information.
The link to information about availability within Utrecht University is not given through the UBU link button, but through the links Fulltext@UBUlink when there is a full text available within UBU, or, UBU link when there is no digital full text but possibly a printed version.
N.B. The Fulltext&UBUlink works only from library pages. Off-campus access: Login with your Solis ID and password.
Find out more on search options and other possibilities? Check the Google Scholar LibGuide.

Explanatory French dictionary. Gives word etymology, meaning, examples of use and citations. Also gives verbal conjugations, feminine and masculine forms of adjectives.

Encyclopedia on all fields of musicology. Grove Music Online offers many search facilities, including searching for information in bibliographies and in worklists.

The full text of The Guardian and its predecessor, The Manchester Guardian (1821 - 2003) can be searched here, along with The Observer (1791-2003).
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

This interdisciplinary handbook on research in medieval studies (2010) provides extensive information about research results over the last decades, including important terms, textual genres and key figures in medieval studies.

Handbook of pragmatics provides up-to-date information on research in the field of linguistic pragmatics.

Handbook in the field of translation and interpreting studies.

Database of books and articles from 1984-2004 in the area of modern Western European history (from c. 1500). Also titles on the philosophy of history and historiography.

Hispana brings together the digital collections of archives, libraries and museums in Spain. It offers access to growing sets of all types of materials (manuscripts, printed books, photographs, maps, etc.) of the Spanish bibliographic heritage.
the Spanish component of Europeana.

Second ed. (2002) of A historical atlas of Islam, ed. by Hugh Kennedy. Substantial difference in choice of maps compared to the first ed. from 1981

News and agenda for historians. Plus a large number of digitized historical sources, all in Dutch.

Bibliography of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft historischer Forschungseinrichtungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AHF).
This database of the AHF presents the work of over 1,000 historical research institutions in Germany. It consists of two collections: the Historische Bibliographie, containing over 350,000 references to books, book chapters and journal articles, published from 1990 onwards. The other collection is the Jahrbuch der historischen Forschung with almost 10,000 references to current research in Germany.
The focus is on European history, from the prehistoric to the modern times.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, published by the Library of Congress.

On-line, searchable version of the Monatsberichte (1829-1900) started by Friedrich Hofmeister (1782-1864). Catalogues of printed music, largely from the German-speaking world. Records are linked to facsimile images of the Monatsberichte on the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) website.

Sources of Dutch culture and history.

Iconclass is a classicification system for iconographical themes in the visual arts.

IHLIA LGBT Heritage collects books, magazines, posters, photographs and more on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender history and life.

Documentation file of the Centre IIMO on ecumenics and missiology.
References to articles, among others from journals from Africa, Asia and Latin America from ca. 1975-2000 that are not described elsewhere; many of these journals are available in the Missiology collection.

ISTC gives information about 15th century books in typeset: incunables in the British Library and other libraries in the UK as well as the US, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands.

An iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects. The database contains data added to the Index since 1991 and approximately thirty percent of the data developed before.
The complete files till 1991 are available for consultation in the paper copy of the Index in the University Library City Centre, in the basement. Eventually the complete Index will be available digitally.

Bibliography of theology, church history and religious studies.
Index religiosus combines and continues the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and the Elenchus Bibliographicus.

International scientific open access bibliography for theology and religious studies, published and maintained by the University of Tübingen.

International bibliography of translations. Contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO member states since 1979.
References registered before 1979 can be found in the printed editions of the Index Translationum.

Catalogue of the INHA, incorporating the catalogues of the INHA Library (collections Jacques Doucet), the Bibliothèque Centrale des Musées Nationaux, the Bibliothèque Patrimoniale de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale des Chartes and the Bibliothèque du centre Gernet-Glotz.

Website dedicated to the study of institutions for collective action, such as guilds, commons, water boards and beguinages. The website is the result of two projects coordinated by Tine de Moor: 'Data Infrastructures for the Study of Guilds and Other Forms of Collective Action' en 'United We Stand. The Dynamics and Consequences of Institutions for Collective Action in Pre-Industrial Europe'. Contains source materials, glossaries, case studies and bibliographies.

The Integrated Database for Early Music (IDEM) is an interdisciplinary, multifaceted database of manuscripts and printed books that are relevant to the Alamire Foundation's research and activities. It therefore especially focuses on the musical heritage of the Low Countries from the early Middle Ages until 1800.

Bibliography of all areas of art history. Gives data on publications from 2008 onwards. Contains both English and French subject terms.
Successor of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).

Bibliography of lexicography. Contains many titles of dictionaries.

Database on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. IBTD includes journal articles, books, book chapters, reviews. A substantial part is full text.

Supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters.

This encyclopedia (with nearly 2000 entries) provides information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions. Entries range from short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres and movements.

Contains over 700 entries. You may search by title as well as by subject.

Several databases in the field of social and socio-economical history, such as history of the trade unions and women's history, from the collections of IISG, NEHA (Netherlands Economic History Archive) and Persmuseum (Museum of the Press)

IMB gives references to articles from periodicals and miscellany volumes from 1967 onwards.

The IPB, the electronic version of the paper bibliography of the same name, consists of a "Full edition" (1997 up to now) and a "Retrospective edition" (1985 up to 1997). The IPB contains references to the bibliographic descriptions of books, to multi-author works, to the contributions in these works and to journal articles. The "Full edition" has more searching possibilities and in addition contains abstracts.

Contains abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals and yearbooks. To search, look through the Subject index of a particular issue, then go to the corresponding abstracts.
Previous volumes are available in print.

Selected sources, Fulltext sources and Saints'lives, collected for teaching purposes

The shared online catalogue of the six IRIS Consortium Libraries in Florence; among them the Library of the Dutch University Institute of Art History

Bibliography in the field of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Library catalogue of the Italian cultural institute, Amsterdam.

Bibliography of the history of Germany, with references to publications from 1940 to 2015

The online version of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (2nd ed.; 2005) contains comprehensive information on 240 important persons, schools and movements in the field of cultural theory and criticism, with a focus on literature.

Database about Jews in the Netherlands in the twentieth century, established by cooperation between the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana and the Menasseh ben Israel Institute.

JSTOR offers full-text access to an archive database of ca. 700 English-language journals in various disciplines. All volumes (including the earliest) are available and can be searched in full text; the most recent years are not included in this archive due to copyright. Collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III, V en VII, Business, Collection Ireland, Ecology and Botany, Health and General sciences, Language and Literature.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Selection from the biographical documentation of the Catholic Documentation Centre in Nijmegen, on individuals that are of importance to the catholic part of the Dutch people or Dutch catholicism of the 19th and 20th century

The Killy Lexicon of Literature includes bio-bibliographical articles about all of the important German-language authors from the Middle Ages to the present.

Reference work with biographical and bibliographical data on literary authors writing in German after 1945. Each lemma contains a biographical sketch, an extensive essay on the author’s work and its reception, literary prizes, and a list of primary and secondary literature.

Some 77,000 scholars currently working in academic institutions throughout German-speaking countries.

KVK is a meta-catalogue which gives access to the records of more than 100 million books and periodicals from library and book trade catalogues world wide.

Organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies. Project sponsored by Georgetown University.

LANIC offers a very large collection of links on Latin America. The portal includes many links to libraries, archives, databases, universities, governmental institutes, the media, etc. After selecting a subject, you can view resources by region or by country.

Latin-Dutch Dictionary.

Latino Literature brings together poetry, fiction and plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Furthermore Latino Literature contains resources, such as advertisements, flyers and programmes for plays. Latino Literature supports not only literature scholars, but also the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.

The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is a database under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). Thousands of scroll fragments can be searched by Site, Language or Content.

Lexicon of the Middle Ages: covers Europe and the Byzantine, Arabian and Jewish world.
With supplement: International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.

Nexis Uni (the successor to Lexis Nexis Academic) offers the full text of (many) articles from Dutch and international newspapers and newsmagazines. In addition Nexis Uni provides company information on Dutch and international businesses. Find out more on search options and other possibilities in Nexis Uni? Check Nexis Uni explained.

LLT-A contains Latin texts from the Antiquity, the Patristic periods, the Middle Ages from 736 to 1500 and neo-Latin texts from the Renaissance to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
Incorpated texts are selected by virtue of their having been edited according to best contemporary scholarly practice. Facts relating to the texts such as authorial attribution or the dating are verified.
Series B (LLT-B) is complementary to Series A, and contains different texts.

LLT-B gathers Latin texts of all genres and all periods. LLT-B includes genres such as chronicles, medieval saints’ lives and travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and scientific treatises from the early-modern period. The emphasis is on the online availability of large corpora of texts.
The Library of Latin Texts – Series B is complementary to Series A.

LLBA is an international bibliography with more than 400,000 abstracts in the area of linguistics and related disciplines. Provides abstracts of journal articles, of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

List of popes with biographical information. Maintained by Kevin Knight. Most of the information comes from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

LION contains more than 350,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th century to the present day, in English language. The database combines the texts with key criticism and author biographies.

Approx. 65,000 full text reviews of primarily Dutch-language fiction (from 1900 onwards).

Reviews of literature translated into Dutch. The original articles have appeard in Dutch daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. Updated every fortnight.

Catalogue of the various collections (letters, manuscripts, audiovisual materials etc.) of the 'Letterkundig Museum' (Museum of Dutch Literature).

Collection of classical Greek and Latin texts, both in the original language and in English translation

This database contains the original edition of the extensive reference work The London stage, 1660-1800: a calendar of plays, entertainments and afterpieces: together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment: compiled from the playbills, and the theatrical diaries of the period. You can search by date, theatre, actor, role and performance. Data can be combined and visualized.

Directory of auction catalogues (1600-1900). This online edition of Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques intéressant l'art ou la curiosité by F. Lugt forms one part of the Art Sales Catalogue Online, the other being the auction catalogues made accessible by the directory. The catalogues themselves are not accessible online in Utrecht. They are available for the most part in microfiche though, in the University Library Uithof, audiovisual collection, room 1.23 on the first floor. In the RKD in The Hague a large part of the catalogues can be consulted online.

The complete Weimar Edition of Luther's works (in progress).
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

In this archive you find student theses of Utrecht University. Most theses are available in full text.

Maison Descartes OPAC, not included in Picarta

MIA offers access to the writings of marxists writers, in particular the 'classic authors'. Documents can be found via the names of the authors. The archive may be consulted in a variety of languages. The contents differ by language.
MIA also contains biographical information on a selection of authors, and an encyclopedia.

This resource features millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Clariah Media Suite is a research environment for media scholars. Metadata and content of collections of The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Eye Film Museum, the National Library (KB) (newspapers) and DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) can be searched and processed. The main building blocks are Data, Tools and Work Space. Employees and students of Utrecht University can log in with Solis-id.
More information.

Medieval Latin dictionary. You can search by lemma or in the full text. Words are given in their context. Translations into French, English and German.

Compilation of current information, sources and tools for medieval studies. Its main focus is on German and Latin literature of the High Middle Ages as well as that of the later Middle Ages and Humanism. Mediaevum also serves as the communication channel for German medieval studies

This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts up to c. 1550 written in Latin script and preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums, archives, collections of monastic orders and some private institutions open to researchers.

Medieval Memoria Online provides a database with inventories and descriptions of objects and texts that had a function in the medieval commemoration of the dead in the area that is currently the Netherlands, until 1580.

The Memory of the Netherlands is an extensive digital collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, from 97 Dutch collections. You can look for images on a specific object, or search thematically.

UBU has access to the databases MEL: Medioevo latino : a Bibliographical Bulletin of European Culture from Boethius to Erasmus (VI to XV Century), and to the online journals Filologia mediolatina and Hagiographica.

International bibliography produced by the Modern Language Association in the area of modern linguistics and literary theory, with references from 1926 onwards. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals (under Advanced Search). Does not contain book reviews.
MLA also contains records from the JSTOR Language and Literature Collection and from the Asian Studies collection. The oldest of these go back to the 1840s.

Selection from the electronic databases of the MGH: Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae and Antiquitates. The database is expanded regularly.

Access tot the digitized books of Monumenta Germaniae Historica in their original layout. You can search for words in their context, but you can also leaf through the books themselves.

Descriptions of reviews and of articles in the field of music and music history from approximately 700 international music journals. From 1979 onwards.
You can search for cited references of publications, but your results will be limited to Music Index itself.

Catalogue of the complete collection of classical and popular cds and lps in the Central Record Library in Rotterdam. You can borrow a large amount of musical albums for free. Information (in Dutch) under digitaal lenen.

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System.
Narcis is the national portal for scientific information including (open access) publications from the Dutch repositories, data sets from a number of data archives, and there are descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes included.

Narrative sources from the medieval Low Countries. Coproduction of the University of Ghent, K.U. Leuven and Groningen University

Over 6,000 archives, both from the government as from private individuals, held by the Nationaal Archief (Dutch national archive).

The resources on the website of the National Library of Wales include among many more the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Welsh Journals (19th, 20th and 21st century) and Welsh Newspapers (1804 – 1919)

The National Security Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.
The complete archive is available via the Digital National Security Archive.

Database of the Dutch Historical Legal Documentation Agency of the Royal Library on old Dutch law, Roman law en colonial law from Germanic times until ca. 1940. The database falls into a collection of literature references and a collection of references to images, that can be browsed both separately and as a whole.

Via Nederlab kunnen onderzoekers en studenten grote aantallen gedigitaliseerde Nederlandstalige teksten van ca. 800 tot heden gezamenlijk doorzoeken en analyseren met binnen Nederlab ontwikkelde, gebruiksvriendelijke tekstanalysesoftware. Zo biedt Nederlab een laboratorium voor onderzoek naar de veranderingspatronen in de Nederlandse taal en cultuur.

Information on all the films that were ever shown on the Nederlands Film Festival.

Sources for biographical data on Dutch people, available in Amsterdam University Library and on the internet. Contains mainly sources after 1900.

This bibliography of Frans Denissen gives a list of Dutch translations of Italian literature, published from 1800 to 2000. The bibliography is published in 2015 in the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL).

The RKD website offers databases on Western art from the Late Middle Ages to the present, with the focus on Netherlandish art.

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision looks after, and releases, 70 per cent of the Dutch audio-visual heritage. Sound and Vision is one of the largest audio-visual archives in Europe.
See also: Beeld en Geluid in Academia and Media Suite

The volumes are directly accessible for visitors, but the volumes do not circulate.

The NIOD library holds not just books, newspapers, journals, pamphlets and brochures. It also holds an important collection of illegal editions printed during the Second World War

Catalogue of classical and popular sheet music. Contains also a large number of titles of arrangements.
The sheet music of over 5,000 works in different genres (choral works, light music, salon music, classical music, (signature) tunes and arrangements) can be downloaded and printed via Muziekschatten. Of a number of works, not just the score but also the parts may be printed.

Internet guide for resources in all areas of the middle ages

Encyclopedia of classical antiquity. English version of Der Neue Pauly.
Consists of two parts: 'Antiquity’ and 'Classical Tradition'. The section 'Classical Tradition' focuses on the history of the reception of antiquity. Under Other editions are five supplements: Chronologies of the Ancient World, Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts, Historical Atlas of the Ancient World, The Reception of Myth and Mythology and The Reception of Classical Literature. The original German edition Der Neue Pauly is also accessible under Other editions.

Nexis Uni (the successor to Lexis Nexis Academic) offers the full text of (many) articles from Dutch and international newspapers and newsmagazines. In addition Nexis Uni provides company information on Dutch and international businesses. Find out more on search options and other possibilities in Nexis Uni? Check Nexis Uni explained.

This website on the work and life of Friedrich Nietzsche includes Studia Nietzscheana (2014- ), Kritische Gesamtausgabe and Faksimile Gesamtausgabe.

A dictionary with more than 22000 concise biographies of Dutchmen and women from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Digital version of the ‘New Dutch Dictionary of Biography’, published between 1911 and 1937.

Special Photo Study Collections of the Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI) in Florence. The collection's strength lies in the photographic reproduction of paintings and drawings from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

This database contains more than 180 UK nineteenth-century periodicals. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

Contains approximately 3,500 popular vocal and instrumental titles from the 1830s to the end of the century. Works belong to the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library.

Index of millions of publications that have become available for free through the Open Archive Initiative (OAI). These are mainly in publication repositories of universities and in the growing number of free Open Archive journals. Many of these publications are not in regular journal databases.
In principle OAIster covers all subjects. For all publications there are links to the full text.

The full text of The Observer (1791-2003) can be searched here, along with The Guardian and its predecessor, The Manchester Guardian (1821 – 2003).
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

All OECD publications in the field of science and technology.

Collection of full text books. To select a topical area, look under Browse by Subject.

Project of the Liberty Fund. Portraits, biographical data and texts on individual freedom, of thinkers from Antiquity to the present.
Also contains quotations, arranged by theme.

Union catalogue of the libraries participating in the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale in Italy.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories. OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

Part of The ORB: Online Reference Book for medieval studies. The encyclopedia as yet contains only the basic core elements and will be added to substantially.

Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing.

Bibliography of the history of Austria created by the Institut für Geschichte, Klagenfurt University. Records from 1945 onwards.

Several catalogues of the Austrian national library, as well as access tot the national bibliography.

This research guide on Linguistics offers encyclopedic articles, combined with an annotated bibliography.

This research guide on Philosophy offers encyclopedic articles, combined with an annotated bibliography.

Authoritative dictionary on classical antiquity, including many references.

Definitions of literary terms, in the broad sense, with numerous cross references.
(Formerly The Concise Oxford dictionary of literary terms)

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells the stories of over 50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to those who died in the year 2002.

A papal 'Who's Who' presenting biographical accounts of the officially recognized popes from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI.

Concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of more than a thousand saints. With bibliographic references.

Encyclopedia covering the European middle ages in a broad sense: history, society, religion, and culture, as well as archeology, medicine and music. All entries are supported by up-to-date bibliographies.

A large encyclopedia on American literature. Contains essays on authors, periods, literary movements and genres. Each essay ends with a bibliography for further reading.

This encyclopedia covers all aspects of the classical world, including the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries.

A large encyclopedia on British literature including Ireland. Contains essays on authors, periods, literary movements and genres. Each essay ends with a bibliography for further reading.

This encyclopedia (over 4,300 entries) provides information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.
Entries range from short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres and movements.

Historical dictionary of the English language.

History of western classical music, related to key events of the time. By Richard Taruskin. With selected links to Grove Music Online.

Encyclopedia on all fields of musicology. This database contains Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford Music Online offers many search facilities, including searching for information in bibliographies and in worklists

Oxford Reference brings together language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, quotations and reference works across various subject areas into a single cross-searchable resource.

Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to a selection of ca. 500 of a total of over 4,000 e-books published by Oxford University Press, in the humanities, economics, law, and political science.
Ample search facilities due to keywords and abstracts at both book and chapter level. The UBU link enables you to find the printed books in the catalogue.

PHP provides documents and studies about the history of the Cold war. Contains three bibliographies, electronic dossiers, volumes published in the 'PHP collection series' and essays. Links to the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) of Zurich ETH.

Website containing factual information about Dutch politics and background information on political parties and personalities.
For publications about political parties and politicians, such as electorial programmes and manifestoes you may consult the Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties (DNPP) catalogue.

Full-text editions of the works of major philosophers. Contains the complete works of St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, among others.

Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from 200 AD to 1216.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Contains references to books and journal articles in the field of international law.

The Persée portal serves to disseminate scientific journals and proceedings in French. All services offered by Persée are free of charge and open to all.

Bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula. The bibliographies contain Spanish, Galicean, Portuguese and Catalan texts.

Bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later that are freely available to the general public on the Web.

PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Using advanced trawling techniques and large scale crowdsourcing, they monitor sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.

Welsh-English and English-Welsh dictionary.

Irish-English and English-Irish dictionary.

Website on Dutch and Flemish philosophy from the Middle Ages until 2004. In Dutch only.

PRDL is a select database of links to digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). PRDL offers many search options, full text searching is not possible.

Virtual library in the field of ancient history, archeology and classical languages. Made availble by Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

PsycINFO covers the entire spectrum of human and animal psychology and behavioural science. It also offers information regarding language and communication, culture and society, psychochemistry and statistics. Contains abstracts from journal articles, but also books and book chapters.

Provides access to books and articles from academic journals, magazines and newspapers. Of the articles and of most books, only the synposis and single pages may be read. Over 5,000 older books are freely available.
Paid Questia membership gives access tot the full contents.

finding aid which allows users to identify and localize text fragments, or even snippets, of the Qurʾān. Compiled by Thomas Milo. Based on the King Fuʾād I edition (Cairo 1924) of the text of the Qurʾān.

Union catalogue of 50 public and 26 private universities, one national research centre and 20 affiliated institutions

Book reviews from print journals from various countries, mainly of books in German along other European languages. The database also features presentations of monographs and articles in 'core statements' by their authors.

Regesta Imperii provides a bibliography with more than two million references to books, book chapters and journal articles on the European medieval history. Additionally you can search in fulltext sources of the Carolingian and Roman-German kings and emperors (8th- 16th century) as well as in a selection of papal documents.

This database contains works of art related to music. RIdIM offers many search options, including musical instruments, musical compositions, composers and other persons, artists, title of work, medium and Iconclass.

Download the Van Hulthem manuscript and search this collection of medieval Dutch literature.

Reviews and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest. Published by the Institute of Historical Research, SAS, University of London

The catalogue of the Rijksmuseum gives access to all books, journals and exhibition and collection catalogues, excluding auction catalogues published before 1989 and a part of the old stock of journals. You can also search all volumes of the Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum. External visitors cannot borrow materials, but they can view them in the reading room.

This international music bibliography gives references (with abstracts) to books, dissertations and journal articles as well as to reviews of books, sheet music editions and sound recordings. Covers the period 1967- the present.

RILM Music Encyclopedias is a continually expanding curated full-text collection that currently comprises 57 titles published from 1775 to the present. Its content spans various fields and subject areas of historical musicology, ethnomusicology and theory, with focus on topics ranging from popular music, opera, instruments, blues and gospel, to recorded music and women composers. Accessible up to 31st May 2020 inclusive.

This international database contains references to articles, published between 1800 and 1950, on musical history and culture.

Fulltext search facilities in 105 jazz periodicals published in the USA between 1914 and 2006.

Inventory of musical sources, put together by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. Contains music manuscripts, treatises, and libretti. Gives locations of sources in several hundreds of libraries and archives.Includes RISM’s publication Series A/II (Music Manuscripts after 1600).
Search help and list of abbreviations under the question mark in the search screen.

Bibliography of the language and literature of the Romance languages. Covers the period 1965-2010.

This encyclopedia is divided into the following categories: Philosophical themes, world philosophies, periods, world religions. It is also possible to search with individual words.

Sabine is a bibliography for literature on the city and the province of Utrecht. References go back to the 17th century. The bibliography ends in 2013.

Internet Sacred Text Archive contains texts from ancient Greece and Rome, mostly in nineteenth century or early twentieth century translations.

Hulpmiddel bij het schrijven van teksten. Informatie over het gebruik van o.a. grammatica en leestekens. Bevat ook een 'Verwarwoordenboek'. Het werk is niet volledig toegankelijk in deze gratis versie.

Reviews of publications in the field of history and historiography. Not just scholarly literature in German, but also from other European countries and beyond. Search results may be sorted by historical period.

The Shapell Manuscript Foundation’s focus is on original manuscripts and historical documents on the United States and the Holy Land, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries

Catalogue of 17th and 18th century books printed in Flanders. To be consulted as a supplement to STCN.

Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands, the Dutch retrospective bibliography for the period 1540-1800.

Bibliographical information on sociology. Also social psychology, methodology, sociology of art, political science, women's studies and environmental issues. The database contains abstracts of articles from approximately 2500 journals and other sources.

The SEP is a continuously updated high quality philosophy reference work. The SEP is freely accessible to everyone. Become a friend of the SEP, if you like to download content in PDF.

German language site providing access to the ives of the East German state security service Stasi, insofar as these are public. Covers the period 1949–1991. Contains besides documents, also videos and audiofragments.

Dutch official government publications 1814-1995 online (in Dutch).
Official government publications from 1995 onwards are available through the website overheid.nl (in Dutch).

All statistical information available from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is available free of charge.

The catalogue of the library of the Stedelijk Museum gives access to all books, catalogues, journals, documentary videos and dvds as well as over 20,000 files with press documentation. Exhibition and collection catalogues from before 1991 cannot yet be searched on all fields.

Bibliographic database with references of articles in some 150 Spanish journals on language and literature. Also contains references to congress papers. Produced by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Everything which is published in the country or written by Swiss authors. Various library catalogues as well as access to the database of the archival collections

Comprehensive and authoritative scientific grammar of the Dutch and Frisian language. By linguists for linguists. Contains phonology, morphology and syntax. With tables and literature references.
Website under construction.

Multilingual collection of databases for conversation analysis. Contains corpora from within several subfields of communication, such as first and second language acquisition, dementia and aphasia. The conversations in the databases have been transcribed. Data may be shared by participating researchers.
Teachers/researchers should subscribe to TalkBank. They are invited to contribute new corpora. Membership is free.

Translation in Dutch of Tarchetti's Racconti fantastici by H.J. Wansink (1876).

An extensive set of Latin legal texts, often combined with translations in French, Spanish or English (University of Grenoble).

Continues Netherlands Theater Institute. Information only in Dutch.

Comprises the complete works of almost all Greek writers from Homer to authors of the sixth century, as well as selected texts of the Byzantine period.
For your first visit, you will have to create an account name and password.

This archive of The Times provides full text access to the years 1785 - 2011. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
The Times Digital Archive data is available for research. Please contact the library (library@uu.nl) for more information. UU staff and students can use I-analyzer to search this corpus using queries on content and metadata. It is also possible to visualize the results.

The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive offers full text access from 1902-2012. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Encyclopedia on theatre in the Netherlands in the present and the past. Contains descriptions of theatre companies and theatres, biographies of theatre personalities, data about performances and about important events in the history of the Dutch theatre.

International bibliography in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies. TSB considers publications from other disciplines such as semiotics, communication studies, linguistics, sociology and psychology to the extent in which they are relevant and of interest to Translation Studies.
Translation Studies Abstracts Online is part of this bibliography.

International database of linguistic maps covering multiple periods and regions.

Le Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé: Frans woordenboek.

Full text documents released by the US government on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act of July 4, 1967. Contains (parts of) documents lacking in the official FRUS documents on account their being classified. By default you will cross-search five other historical databases.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 is a joint publication of the California Digital Library and the University of California Press.
Publications that are available for free will be found under Browse public titles. In Advanced search select Public access books.

Complete and up-to-date documentation of United Nations documents from 1992-present.

The United Nations Treaty Collection contains the entire texts of all treaties that have been published in the United Nations Treaty Series. In addition, the ratification lists of the multilateral treaties can also be accessed, for which the Secretary General of the United Nations acts as depositary.

The Cambridge Journal Urban History produces this annual bibliography. It contains publications from 1974 onwards.

Archives of the history of the town and province of Utrecht, as well as national centre for ecclesiastical archives and archives of the Dutch Railways.

Utrecht Bibliography of Intercultural Communication (UBICC) is a database of over 5000 references to scientific publications about intercultural communication.
More information.

Library catalogue of the Utrecht School of the Arts.

The Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive, contains documents produced by scientists at Utrecht University: PhD theses, articles, reports, monographs, etc.
Utrecht University Repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
The majority of the documents are available in full text and are freely accessible. Documents from before 2006 are often available in printed form and can be found via the catalogue.

The catalogue of the library of the Van Abbemuseum also contains information about exhibitions organized by the museum since 1936. References to all kinds of materials.
The library has a website of its own with more detailed information.

In Van Dale Online is included Groot Woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal (also known as the Dikke van Dale) and these bilingual dictionaries: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish.

Catalogue of the complete holdings of the library of the Van Gogh Museum (24,000 books, 4500 articles, audiovisual materials). Contains also the Arti et Amicitiae library. Speciality: visual arts from the period 1800-1920.

This database contains Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, Deutscher Humanismus 1480-1520, Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620 and Killy-Literaturlexikon.

Collection of biblical texts, translated into Latin, in use before the Vulgate became predominant. These citations from the Church Fathers range from the second to the eighth century.

The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion covers a broad spectrum of theoretical topics used in the academic study of religion, including those from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, historiography, theology, philology, literary studies, psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, and political sciences.

Catalogue of the Warburg Institute Library, University of London.

The web portal European History offers both historical material - texts, statistical data, pictures, and maps - and a large number of essays on the history of Europe and the Europeans from the 18th century until today. It is a modular topic-focused network.

Some 1700 e-books and 1900 journals from Wiley and Blackwell.

Bibliographical database (1972 -) pertaining to women's studies. Contains references to books, journal articles and other document types.

The WFT is a dictionary for the Frisian language from 1800 till about 1975 and forms part of the Geïntegreerde Taalbank (GTB, Integrated Language Database).

WNT (Dictionary of the Dutch Language) online is a historical dictionary of the Dutch language in the years 1500-1976.

Latin-Dutch Dictionary.

Dictionary of the dialect of Tilburg (province of Noord-Brabant).

World Biographical Information System Online contains references on over 6 million people in 9500 biographical sources from around the world and includes the full-text from the Archives Biographiques Françaises and the Benelux Biographical Archive (Biografisch Archief van de Benelux)

Collection of constitutions and constitutional resources for more than 190 countries.

Bibliography of books and articles on Shakespeare, editions, films and productions.

Dictionary of German collocation.

Collection of German and English dictionaries in the field of linguistics and communication studies.

Internet directory of over 2,000 annotated links to English-language sources in the field of international affairs and relations, global studies, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, human rights, etc.

Bibliography of work in the field of critical and cultural theory

Annotated bibliography (from 1919/20) on English language and culture: books and articles published in the previous year are commented on. Arranged by subject area.

International bibliography of modern language literature and linguistics

Digital version of the first German general encyclopedia (ca 1750)

Central Online Catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, Rom, Athens and Istanbul. In this bibliography you can search for monographs and articles on archaeology and ancient history including epigraphy and numismatics.