The following is a brief list of digital resources which may be useful to users of early printed collections. Access to most of these resources is provided by the University Library through subscriptions, and is restricted to computers on University networks, or to Library users with a Raven login off campus. Those listed below with an asterisk are unrestricted resources, free to all users. For further details of off-campus access and a full list of online resources, see eresources@cambridge. We welcome your suggestions of other resources that may be useful.
Union catalogues (all freely available)
- ESTC* (English Short Title Catalogue), 1475-1800
- ISTC* (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue), 1455-1501
- STCN* (Short Title Catalogue Netherlands), 1501-1800
- USTC* (Universal Short Title Catalogue)
- NSTC* (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue)
Digitised books, periodicals and other materials
- EEBO (Early English Books Online)
- ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
- EEB (Early European Books) - soon to include a visualisation tool locating EEB items on a map of Europe
- Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths’-Kress Collection, 1450–1850
- British Newspapers 1600-1950
- America's Historical Newspapers
- Biblia Sacra* (Bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium)
- Patrologia Latina
- Cambridge Digital Library*
- Cambridge Library Collection (digitised historical publications)
- The Irish Times archive from 1859 to the present day (excepting the immediate last two weeks)
- The Irish Newspaper Archive includes many other Irish newspapers dating back to the eighteenth century
- John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera (Bodleian Libraries)
- Eighteenth-Century Journals
- State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 1
- Nineteenth-Century British Pamphlets*
- Nineteenth-Century UK Periodicals
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature * (University of Florida)
- America's Historical Newspapers: searchable American newspapers dating back to the 1800s.
Databases and other useful resources
- British Armorial Bindings*
- In Principio (incipit index of Latin texts)
- SCIPIO (sales catalogues for art and rare books)
- Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900)
- Apollo* (University of Cambridge digital repository)
- eresources@cambridge* gateway
- ArchiveSearch* (University of Cambridge archives catalogue)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*
- Virtual Exhibitions at Cambridge University Library
Blogs from Cambridge and elsewhere
- UL Special Collections
- UL Incunabula Cataloguing Project (now ended, but content remains)
- Parker Library at Corpus Christi College Cambridge
- The Conveyor - Bodleian Libraries Special Collections
- Echoes From the Vault - St Andrew's University Special Collections
- The Collation - Folger Shakespeare Library