Locating Digital Materials at Harvard

Harvard University provides open, online access to a rich array of digital materials, including photographic collections, documents, musical scores, prints, drawings, historical maps, books, legal transcripts, diaries, manuscripts, and more.

Internet users can also find a growing number of subject-specific collections available online. Links to more material available from the University’s libraries, museums, and archives can also be found at http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu 

Visitors to Harvard

Visitors to Harvard can find and use thousands of digital materials from the Harvard collections. While access to many licensed e-resources, such as journals, require a Harvard ID and PIN, many other electronic materials and digital objects are open to all. Here are some places to start:

E-Research @ Harvard Libraries

E-Research @ Harvard Libraries is the University’s online system for searching and finding e-resources of many kinds: http://e-research.lib.harvard.edu

HOLLIS Catalog

Use the HOLLIS catalog to locate not only digital collections, but some individual digital objects as well. Look for “Internet Links” in HOLLIS records or choose “Digital Resources” when you begin your HOLLIS search: http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu

VIA

VIA, Harvard’s Visual Information Access catalog, provides links to more than 270,000 individual images: http://via.harvard.edu

For More Information

•  Explore the Harvard Libraries web site at http://lib.harvard.edu

•  Visit “A Selection of Web-Accessible Collections” to view new digital collections as they are added: http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu