Digital Collections at Stanford

Welcome

Welcome to collections.stanford.edu. This site provides access to digital collections produced by the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. By clicking on one of the links below, you will be able to browse or search within these collections. Check back frequently for the addition of new collections. Digital collections currently available include :

• California Legislative Journal Appendixes
  This site currently provides online access to the Journal Appendixes for the 6th through 30th Sessions (1855–1893).
• Copyright Renewal Database
  This database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963.
• Corporation of Foreign Bondholders (U.K.) and Foreign Bondholders Protective Council (U.S.)
  This collection includes annual reports of the British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders (CFB) published between 1873 and 1988 and the United States Foreign Bondholders Protective Council (FBPC) published between 1934 and 1967.
• Dime Novels Full Text
  This online collection provides scholars the complete text of a small, but selective, sample from Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection series, Secret Service.
• Documents to the People
  This online archive contains all issues of DttP: Documents to the People journal from 1972 through 2002 (volumes 1-30), published indexes and related resources.
• Douglas Menuez Photography Collection
  The Douglas Menuez Photography Collection contains a sample of images from the complete archive of award-winning documentary photographer DouglasMenuez. You can browse and search images using the Luna Insight image collection software.
• The Eliasaf Robinson Tel Aviv Collection
  The publication of the Eliasaf Robinson Tel Aviv Collection celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv. This site is both a virtual exhibit and digital collection of documents about the early history of "The First Hebrew City."
• GATT Digital Library
  This site provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947–1994.
• Historical Encyclopedias of the Social Sciences
  This site provides online access to digitized versions of two historical encyclopedias of the social sciences - the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by David L. Sills, of 1968 and the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, edited by Edwin R.A. Seligman, of 1930–1935.
• History of Artificial Intelligence
  Sound recordings and moving images selected from Stanford's collections as historical documents of the development of the field of Artificial Intelligence are presented in streaming audio and video.
• Image Gallery
  This site provides access to browse and search image collections owned by the Stanford University Libraries. Check back frequently for the addition of new collections.
• Immigration Commission Report and Report on Women and Child Wage Earners
  Two ground-breaking reports in the United States Serial Set covering fin de siècle and Progressive Era public policy issues: immigration and women and children's labor.
• Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
  This site houses the collection of published committee proceedings and prints of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that was established by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and existed from 1946 to 1977.
• Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project
  This collection includes reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought.
• The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
  The site features a detailed database describing over fifty years of musical performances, artist interviews and other events documented in the Monterey Jazz Festival archive -- over 1,000 hours of audio and video content -- preserved and accessible at the Archive of Recorded Sound.
• Preventing Genocide
  The Preventing Genocide collection contains the final documentary produced by David Hamburg and his son Eric, as well as twenty-nine videotaped interviews with world leaders in the prevention of mass violence, which were used as source material for the film.
• R. Buckminster Fuller Collection
  This collection contains digitally reformatted audio-visual materials relating to R. Buckminster Fuller's multifaceted career as an architect, mathematician, inventor and social critic.
• Stanford Geological Survey Collection
  The Stanford Geological Survey Collection contains thousands of maps and hundreds of notebooks spanning the 100-year life of the Survey. You can browse and search the Stanford Geological Survey Collection via the Luna Insight image collection software.
• Stanford Historical Photograph Collection
  The Stanford Historical Photograph Collection contains more than 16,000 images documenting Stanford University and its founders. You can browse and search the Stanford Historical Photograph Collection via the Luna Insight image collection software.
• Stanford University Publications
  This site provides online access to selected catalogs and administrative publications of Stanford University published between 1891 and 2001.
• SULAIR Books in the Public Domain
  This site provides online access to a limited number of books from our collections published before 1923 and thus in the public domain.
• The Super-Enlightenment
  This collection assembles French eighteenth-century works on mythology, alchemy, religion, and science. Rather than reject Enlightenment ideas and paradigms, however, they embrace them, inspiring us to view them through the conceptual lens of "the Super-Enlightenment."
• Survey of Race Relations
  This site provides access to digital copies of all items in the Survey of Race Relations collection held at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. The survey contains documents and papers related to an investigation conducted in the early 1920's of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological, and social conditions among Chinese, Japanese, and other non-European residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada.
• !Women Art Revolution
  The !W.A.R. collection features video interviews with major figures in the feminist art movement from the 1970s to today, representing a significant archival resource for researchers in women's studies, art history, and American studies.