Index of open rights and Creative Commons sources

Philosophy of History

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/history/

Open access encyclopaedia, written by academics in English and French : transversal approaches to the European history of gender, wars, arts,…

https://ehne.fr/en

Brepols' imprint of authority and quality for books on the history of art and culture.

https://www.brepols.net/products?p=1&r=12&s=&v=thumbview&q=$Availability:Free%20Access&t=306

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law

https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/subjects

Founded in 2005 by four Belgian and French academic publishers, Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive online collection of francophone publications in social sciences and humanities. In 2023, more than 600 journals and 18 000 eBooks from major French, Belgian and Swiss publishers can be accessed by students, scholars and librarians worldwide on www.cairn.info. To make this invaluable content accessible to a non–francophone readership, Cairn.info launched Cairn International Edition, an English-language platform where abstracts and selected articles from key journals on Cairn.info are translated from French into English, enabling users to search, browse and read this content without speaking a word of French. Cairn International Edition received support from the Centre Français d'exploitation du droit de Copie.

https://www.cairn.info/

https://www.cairn-int.info/

Persee.fr provides free and open access to complete collections of scholarly publications (journals, books, conference proceedings, serial publications, primary sources, etc.) and to a range of research and exploitation tools.

https://www.persee.fr/

The Artstor collection brings together visual media from top museums, archives, and scholars — all rights-cleared for education and research.

https://library.artstor.org/#/browse/commons

OpenEdition is a comprehensive digital infrastructure for academic communication in the humanities and social sciences. It brings together four complementary platforms focused respectively on journals (OpenEdition Journals), book series (OpenEdition Books), research blogs (Hypotheses) and academic events (Calenda).

With its status as a national research infrastructure, OpenEdition is supported by OpenEdition Center, a CNRS Support and Research Unit (UAR 2504) associated with Aix-Marseille University, the EHESS and Avignon University.

https://www.openedition.org/?lang=en

RetroNews, the newspaper website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, gives freely access to more than 2000 newspaper titles published between 1631 and 1966

https://www.retronews.fr/

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals.

https://scielo.org/

OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

https://oapen.org/

The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery

https://openresearchlibrary.org/search-results/g%3D*%26full-text%3Dfalse%26_cat%3D%2522HIS000000%2522%26_l%3D%2522eng%2522/list

Online Primary Sources for Russian, Caucasian, Central Asian, Eastern & Central Europe Studies

https://onlineprimarysources.cercec.fr/

"1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” is an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War.

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/

The University of Chicago ARTFL project has developed an Internet version of the first edition of the Encyclopédie, or Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers by Diderot and d'Alembert. The project concerns the seventeen volumes of text and the eleven volumes of plates of the first edition.

https://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

https://www.jstor.org/

The Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia is the most visited and comprehensive Holocaust resource online today. It provides the public, educators, faculty, students, and scholars with hundreds of articles, access to our digitized collections, critical thinking and discussion questions, lesson plans, oral histories, videos, and much more. It includes over 950 articles in English. Hundreds of these articles have been translated into 18 languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Russian, and Spanish.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/

One of the largest and most authoritative collections of online journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/topic/browse/000070

The Encyclopedia of the History of Science (ETHOS) publishes up-to-date, peer-reviewed articles on topics in the history of science and technology, broadly construed. All articles focus on a single topic in the field, presenting an interpretive overview of the subject while also surveying relevant published literature.

https://ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/

An open educational resource with peer-reviewed content for world and global history teachers, scholars, and students

https://worldhistorycommons.org

The EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. Articles for the Online Encyclopedia are written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited. A distinguished Advisory Board recommends entry topics, assists in the selection of authors, and defines the project’s scope.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia-2/

History, politics, arts, science & more: the Canadian Encyclopedia is your reference on Canada.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

The Sciences Po library is a social sciences reference library at an international level and more specifically in the field of political science.

As a partner of the French National Library and active member of CollEx-Persée (a national research infrastucture for collections of excellence) it brings together researchers and large scientific information holdings in order to give easier access. It collects, describes, disseminates and preserves material and resources for teaching and research.

As part of the European objectives in promoting Open Science, it designs along with its users the tools and services they need in order to collect, digitalise and explore resources and data.

https://www.sciencespo.fr/bibliotheque/fr/rechercher/eressources/#/resources?subjects=history

https://sciencespo.libguides.com/c.php?g=233287&p=4992368

https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en.html

HAL (Hyper articles en ligne) is the national open archive of reference created in 2001 by the CCSD (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). It is a platform intended for the deposit and the diffusion in free access of the scientific works of the researchers.

https://hal.science/

Acta Academica is an academic journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities.

https://www.aacademica.org/

Through its its Digital Diplomatic Library (Bibliothèque Diplomatique Numérique (BDN)), the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) disseminates, preserves and promotes documents on the history of diplomacy, international relations, government organization and international law.

https://bibliotheque-numerique.diplomatie.gouv.fr/

BHF is a freely accessible bibliographic and historiographical tool for anyone interested in the history of France

https://biblio-bhf.fr/

Very Short Introductions offer concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, new insights, and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable to develop your core knowledge.

https://academic.oup.com/very-short-introductions

https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/very-short-introductions