For nearly four centuries, Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums have developed extraordinary collections that reflect the scope and the breadth of the University's world-renowned academic programs. Today, the University opens an online window to those resources through its Open Collections Program (OCP). Through careful collaboration with Harvard's distinguished faculty, librarians, and curators, OCP creates subject-specific, web-accessible collections, open to anyone with an Internet connection, that can support teaching and learning around the world.
OCP's unique online collections do not duplicate individual collections of books or manuscripts. Instead, OCP offers new, virtual collections of thematically linked material selected from numerous Harvard repositories. Each collection is easily searchable on the web.
OCP focuses on historical materials that are often unique. In the words of OCP founder Sidney Verba, "The experience of working with this University's historical materials has long been an irreplaceable part of a Harvard education. Now, by developing subject-based digital collections on topics of contemporary concern, Harvard is making that experience available to students and teachers everywhere."
Established in 2002 with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Open Collections Program has since received generous support from Arcadia and from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud.
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ONLINE COLLECTIONS
Women Working, 1800–1930
Explore women's roles in the US economy between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are all documented by original source materials.
Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Immigration to the United States, 1789–1930
Books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other historical materials that document voluntary immigration to the United States from the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 to the Great Depression.
Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Contributes to the understanding of global, social-history, and public-policy implications of diseases, and offers historical perspectives, from 1493 to 1922, on the science and the public policy of epidemiology today.
Supported by Arcadia
Expeditions and Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age
Field notes, letters, maps, photographs, and published materials relating to a range of worldwide expeditions from
1626 to 1953.
Supported by Arcadia
Islamic Heritage Project
Over 155,000 pages on a wide range of topics from the 13th through 20th centuries CE from Harvard’s collections of Islamic manuscripts, published materials, and maps.
Supported by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and developed in association with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
COLLECTION IN DEVELOPMENT
Reading
Antique primers, diaries, commonplace books, and other historical materials from the Harvard collections that provide key perspectives on the act of reading as it shifts from the printed page to the Internet.
Supported by Arcadia