Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales & British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the Points to the Past Portal.
The full text of hundreds of periodical titles from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
The Canada Year Book Historical Collection 1867 to 1967: historical text, tables and maps on Canadian society, events, and the economy: population, industry, trade, immigration, labour, transportation, government, etc.
In addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.
The U.S. Serial Set, along with the State Papers, includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports from the late 18th century onward; coverage here is 1789-1969..
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are working documents of government. The collection has over 200,000 papers plus Hansard, both starting in 1801. For more information, consult the HCCP Guide.
Complete, fully-text searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957 that defined the style of photojournalism in the 20th century.
A collection of pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and other published material relating to the Americas.
Access is also available to all residents within British Columbia via the Points to the Past Portal HERE.