InfoGuides: Core Sources in Russian, Former Soviet Union, and Eastern European History: Find Archival Collections

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Archive Finder This link opens in a new window
Describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The European Library (National Libraries of Europe)
The European Library is an independent not-for-profit library services organization supported by CENL. The European Library importantly works to strengthen and support libraries across the continent. Member libraries benefit from a powerful, low-cost aggregation structure enabling a greater exposure of digital resources and bibliographic records. They collect, enrich and innovate with libraries' data and content for the widest possible dissemination. The European Library's mission is to be THE open data hub for library data in Europe.

Center for Research Libraries e-collections This link opens in a new window
Includes pamphlets, manuscripts, periodicals, government documents, and other resources related to Chinese mass education in the PRC; Medieval slavery and manumission; 18th & 19th-century Brazil; 1848 Revolution in France; and South Asia.

Smithsonian Global Sound
Virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. Its collection of over 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds include recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and archival audio collections.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Provides records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries, such as books, music, videos, microform, digital content, and medieval manuscripts.

American Historical Association's Archives Wiki
Archives Wiki is sponsored by the American Historical Association. It is intended to be a clearinghouse of information about archival resources throughout the world. While it is primarily designed to be useful to historians and others doing historical research, we hope that researchers in many disciplines will find it useful.
Archives Portal Europe
The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent.

Virginia Heritage This link opens in a new window
Consolidates more than 11,000 finding aids that describe a vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in historical societies, libraries museums, colleges, and universities across the Commonwealth, and help users discover primary source materials documenting the history, culture, and people of Virginia.