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Wiley Digital Archives identifies, restores, digitizes and catalogs the archives of some of the world’s most influential academic and scientific societies and universities. Unique primary-source content is delivered on an advanced platform designed to power research, support teaching, and foster learning.
The collections contain primary source materials such as manuscripts, periodicals, maps, drawings, photographs, etc. The platform offers features such as Automatic Text Recognition (ATR), image customization, term analysis hub, place of publication browser, a photo and map explorer, etc. Please note that the trial version does not allow printing and downloading materials (including tables and Geotiff files).
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland founded in 1871, is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind). The Institute’s archive contains nearly one million pieces of unique content, including research data, papers, fieldwork, drawings and photographs, etc.
On-campus access available here
Off-campus access available here
Environmental Science and History focuses on critical aspects of environmental science, history and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple, global sources. The collection contains approximately one million pages/images of primary sources, featuring data-heavy collections on Deforestation, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Ecology, Botany, Biodiversity and Extinction, Insect Science, Water Sources, Irrigation, Wetlands, and Hydrology.
On-campus access available here
Off-campus access available here
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) was founded in 1830 to promote the advancement of geographical sciences. The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485.
On-campus access available here
Off-campus access available here
The platform allows you to switch between archives, as well as search all three archives simultaneously.
The UL Library invites you to express your opinion about the Wiley Digital Archives primary-source collections by sending feedback to info-bibl@lu.lv.
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