E-Books
E-Books for History
IUCAT includes 2.5 million e-books for the Bloomington campus (see this page for more info)
Temporary COVID-19 e-book access (note: the websites below include e-books that are unavailable in IUCAT)
RedShelf is temporarily offering free electronic textbooks to students. Sign up using your institutional email. The e-books can be borrowed until May 25.
VitalSource is temporarily offering free electronic textbooks to students and instructors. Sign up using your institutional email. The e-books can be borrowed until May 25.
JSTOR is temporarily offering more e-books and e-journals than IUB affiliates can typically access. Click here for more information, but remember to log-in through the IU Libraries portal to access the books. The content is available through June 30.
Project Muse is temporarily offering more e-books and e-journals than IUB affiliates can typically access. Click here for a full list of participating publishers. Each publisher has its own dates during which time you can access the material.
E-Resources for History
E-Resources through IU for History
A full list of primary resources is available on the History subject page
The following databases include secondary sources (e.g. scholarly articles or books about historical topics):
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America: History & Life
Bibliographic database focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada, indexing more than 1,800 journals published, dissertations and reviews.
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JSTOR
Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
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Project Muse
Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Freely available primary sources
Listed below are portals that either search large primary source online collections or link to sites that do
For a long list of more specific collections of digitized primary sources, click here.
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250+ Killer Digital Libraries and ArchivesThis list contains over 250 libraries and archives that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.
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British Library Endangered Archive ProgramSince 2004, the Programme has digitised over seven million images and 25 thousand sound tracks. Archive types digitised so far include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, audio recordings. This continually expanding online collection is available freely through local archival partners, this website and it is discoverable via the British Library catalogue, for research, inspiration and enjoyment.
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CalisphereCalisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,725,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting.
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Cambridge Digital LibraryOver the course of six centuries Cambridge University Library's collections have grown from a few dozen volumes into one of the world's great libraries, with an extraordinary accumulation of material. The collections cover every conceivable aspect of human endeavour, spanning most of the world's cultural traditions.
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European History Primary SourcesThe purpose of EHPS is to provide an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe. As the number of digital archives on the internet continues to grow, finding and selecting digital repositories becomes increasingly difficult. EHPS strives to fill that gap by listing the most important collections of digital primary sources for the history of Europe, either as a whole or for single countries. EHPS is updated continuously and we invite all users to send us their suggestions for websites to include.
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Europeana Collections
Provides access to over 50 million digitized items from European archives, libraries, and museums.
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Library of Congress Digital CollectionsAccess online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.
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Umbraumbrasearch.org brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.