Conway Hall library
Conway Hall is the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and holds the largest and most comprehensive humanist research resource in the UK.
Smithsonian Libraries Artists’ Books Collection
The Smithsonian Libraries’ collection of artists’ books spans numerous formats, styles, and countries, and the works are available to researchers for study and inspiration.
The Feminist Library
The Feminist Library is a large archive collection of Women’s Liberation Movement literature, particularly second wave materials dating from the late 1960s to the 1990s. They support research, activist and community projects in this field.
Black Cultural Archives
Black Cultural Archives is a national institution dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of diverse people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain.
Stuart Hall Library
Stuart Hall Library is a specialist research collection on international contemporary visual art and culture open to the public since 2007. The library provides the opportunity to study art from Indigenous, African, Caribbean, Asian, Latin American, Middle…
Rhizome Archive
Archive of works of internet art, as well as unique microsites from events, publications, exhibitions, and projects from around 1997 2011.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non profit digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general…
Open Library
Part of the Internet Archive, the Open Library has over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.
Primary Information
Non profit organization devoted to printing artists books, artist writings, out of print publications and editions. The organisation’s period of focus is from the early 1960s to the present, with an emphasis on the conceptual practice of using…
Electronic Poetry Center
Wide range of resources on digital and contemporary formally innovative poetries, new media writing, and literary programming.
Anthology Film Archives
International centre for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video. Particular focus on independent, experimental and avant garde cinema. Presenting video and audio selections from upcoming online collections.
UBUWEB
Independent resource dedicated to all avant garde, ethnopoetic, and outsider art. All materials on UbuWeb are freely available for noncommercial and educational use.
Computer Arts Society
The Computer Art Society (CAS) was founded in 1968 and holds archives of significant pre 1980 material. Wider interests include the archiving, studying and presenting of Computer Arts and the networking of active practitioners in this medium.
Bibliothèque et Archives de la Manufacture Nationale de Porcelaine de Sèvres
Archive on the history of ceramics and porcelain in France, for the former royal and national ceramics workshop.
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)
WALS is a database of structural properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials such as reference grammers by a team of 55 authors.
Archive of Virtual Art
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers…
Asia Art Archive
Collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, available from their website and onsite library, located in Hong Kong.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers access to art reference works: the scholarly art encyclopedia Grove Dictionary of Art; and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, about the sale and collection of artists’ work and artists’ biographies. Also search Oxford…