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Harvard's Union Catalogs including HOLLIS, VIA, OASIS, HGL and HMDC contain descriptions of Harvard's digital holdings in libraries, archives, museums and special collections as well as listings for commercially licensed material. Harvard's holdings are made available to the public whenever possible, while most licensed material is restricted by Harvard ID and PIN. A wealth of material including thousands of digital images in the VIA catalog and digital content in the other catalogs is openly accessible.
HOLLIS Catalog—Harvard Online Library Information System
http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu
HOLLIS is Harvard's most comprehensive union
catalog, with over 9 million records for online and traditional material in the
Harvard University Library system. The HOLLIS Catalog contains entries for books,
journals (not articles!), manuscripts, government documents, maps, microforms,
music scores, sound recordings, visual materials, and data files.
VIA—Visual Information Access
http://via.harvard.edu
A union catalog of visual resources at Harvard
related to art, architecture, archeology, ethnography, and material culture. VIA
includes information about slides, photographs, artwork, and artifacts in the
University's libraries, museums, and archives. Many records have links to digital
images, and instructors can make use of the VIA export tool to download these images
with descriptive information for use in course tools such as the iCommons/ICG image
tool.
OASIS—Online Archival Search Information System
http://oasis.harvard.edu
OASIS provides centralized access to a
growing percentage of finding aids for archival and manuscript collections at
Harvard. These finding aids are detailed descriptions of collections that contain
a wide variety of materials, including letters, diaries, photographs, drawings,
printed material, and objects. Some contain links to digital images, text, and
audio files.
HGL—Harvard Geospatial Library
http://hgl.harvard.edu
HGL is a catalog and repository of geospatial
data material held or licensed by Harvard University. The system provides enhanced
metadata and database functions designed specifically for geographic information.
Using available datasets, HGL users can build maps online, or download selected
datasets for use in other systems. If the requested data is not available in the
HGL repository, users will be directed to the holding library.
HMDC—Harvard–MIT Data Center
http://hmdc.harvard.edu
The principal distributor of quantitative
social science data from major international data consortia for Harvard and MIT,
and a world leader in research in digital libraries and statistical methodology.
Library Digital Initiative (LDI) Projects
http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/funded_projects.html
Harvard University's Library Digital Initiative
is a comprehensive program begun in 1998 to develop the University's capacity to
manage digital information. A complete listing of funded projects is available on
the Funded Projects page.
The Open Collections Program (OCP) Projects
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu
The Open Collections Program increases the
availability of historical resources from Harvard's library and museum collections
for purposes of teaching, learning, and research -- both at Harvard and around the
world. OCP's projects are accessible from the program's home page.
This web site will be updated quarterly. To request the addition of a collection, please use the comments e-mail below.
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