OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources from nearly one thousand data providers.
Searches more than 295,945 digitized objects in 9 formats, including images (photographs and cultural materials), books and pamphlets, journal articles, maps, sheet music, videos, data sets, political cartoons and posters, and oral histories from 143 American Social History research collections.
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Provides organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, created by Illinois scholars, or included among the digital collections of The University of Illinois Library.
Database of newspaper holdings at UIUC Library in all formats including online. To find digitized historical newspaper titles, select "online" from the "format" drop-down box or visit our historical newspapers page.
Search thousands of materials via the Open Access Text archive or search content digitized by UIUC Library under the Open Content Alliance project.
Search full-text of selected digitized books.
The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection (IDNC) contains digital facsimiles of historic Illinois newspapers. You can browse the newspapers by date or search by keyword across articles, advertisements and photo captions. You can print, download, or e-mail individual articles. And it's free!
Together with the introduction of rural mail delivery, the telephone, and the automobile, farm newspapers played a key role in the modernization of rural America. The Farm, Field and Fireside collection contains historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Collegiate Chronicle is a prototype student newspaper repository aggregating
newspapers from colleges and universities across the USA. As funding becomes available, we
will add more titles and coverage to this collection.
More info about the Digital Newspaper Collections from the University of Illinois
The Illinois Digital Magazine and Yearbook Collection features digital versions of UIUC's yearbook, the Illio for the years of 1970-1989. Other titles include Arts for America (1894-1900), the Illinois Chemist (1915-1921), and the Illinois Society of Architects Monthly Bulletin (1916-1932).
This digital video collection of first-hand accounts from the Jewish Brigade is only a small sample of the dozens of interviews available on VHS and beta in our Chuck Olin Film Archive.
Digitized versions of 105 posters published in France during the First World War.
The Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey was published in 1942 by the Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project of the Work Projects Administration of Illinois. Its purpose was to translate into English and classify selected news articles appearing in the Chicago area foreign language press from 1861 to 1938. The project consists of a file of 120,000 typewritten pages translated from newspapers of 22 different foreign language communities in Chicago. UIUC Library has digitized this collection.
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