Library resources
- Digitized juvenile materials via the online catalog
Access both items digitized in-house at Princeton and titles available from proprietary databases; includes both historical and contemporary publications. - Treasures of the Cotsen Collection at Princeton's Digital Repository
Browse or search for digital photographs of selected Cotsen materials in various formats and languages. - Online Exhibitions
Browse digital photographs of selected pages from materials previously exhibited in the gallery of the Cotsen Children's Library. - Chinese Shadow Figures
View over 2,200 digital photographs of Chinese shadow figures from the East Asian Library and the Gest Collection.
Databases of digitized books and periodicals (find more full-text databases by subject):
- American Periodicals This link opens in a new windowFull-text and page images of several hundred American periodicals dated between 1740 and 1940.
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new windowFull-text of 250 British novels from 1782 to 1903.
- Gale Primary Resources This link opens in a new windowSearches across Gale primary source collections (including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Indigenous Peoples: North America, and Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture). Also allows users to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools.
- HathiTrust This link opens in a new windowA collection of millions of titles digitized from member libraries around the world.
- CADAL This link opens in a new windowThe China Academic Digital Associative Library 大学数字图书馆国际合作计划 is a collection of scanned Chinese books, both in and out of copyright, including ancient texts, Republican books and periodicals, as well as post-1949 publications.
- Quan guo bao kan suo yin This link opens in a new windowThe National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals 全国报刊索引 indexes articles published in Chinese periodicals from 1833 to current. Most pre-1949 articles are downloadable as full-image pdfs.
Online full-text or images
| Institution | Collection | Contents | Chronological scope | Language | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Research Libraries | Chinese Pamphlets 連環畫 | mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai | 1947-1954 | Chinese | 200 |
| Children's Books Online | The Rosetta Project | illustrated books | pre-1920s | English and European, with translations into multiple languages | 500 |
| Free Library of Philadelphia | Children's literature archive | manuscripts, sketches and preliminary art, book dummies, color separations, and final artwork | historical and contemporary | English | 1,700 |
| Internet Archive | Children's Library | from the holdings of multiple libraries | 18th century - 1920s (bulk) | English, European, and other languages | 3,300 |
| Library of Congress | Children's Book Selections | works by renowned illustrators | 1770-1920 | English | 70 |
| Project Gutenberg | Children's Bookshelf | classical children's literature | pre-1920s | English, European, and more | |
| University of Florida | Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature | children's books | 18th century - 1920s (bulk) | English, European | 6,100 |
| University of Maryland | International Children's Digital Library | children's books | 16th century - contemporary | 50+ different languages | 4,600 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 19th Century Schoolbooks | school textbooks | 19th century | English | 130 |
| Wayne State University | Eloise Ramsey Collection of Literature for Young People | children's books | 18th century - 1920s | English, European | 650 |
Portals to digitized texts and images
- Digital Public Library of AmericaA one-stop discovery platform for millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the United States.
- University of Pennsylvania: the Online Books PageLists over 3 million books that are freely readable over the Internet.
- Cultural Japan 日本文化Discovers digital resources on Japanese culture published in museums and libraries from around the world. The platform has collected over a million items.
- Ivy Plus Libraries' Digital Projects on East AsiaA platform for Ivy plus member libraries to share their published and ongoing digital projects. Links to a dozen university libraries' digital projects on East Asian materials.
- Digital Resources and Projects on East AsiaPresents digital resources in a spreasheet, which is sortable and searchable by a variety of categories such as chronological and geographical coverage.
See also LibGuides > Online Reference Shelf > Online Texts
Online exhibitions
- British Library: Discovering Children's BooksDisplays selected pages or full content of over 150 children's stories, poems and illustrations ranging from medieval fables to contemporary picture books.
- University of Hawaii at Manoa: Lian Huan Hua (连环画) CollectionDisplays cover images of 150 Chinese picture-story books, mostly dating 1971-1976.
- University of Washington: Historical Children's Literature CollectionDisplays selected pages or full content of European and American children's books and ephemera from the 18th to the 20th century.
- University of Washington: K-Manhwa, Korean Graphic Novel Cover ArtDisplays over 1,000 cover images of K-Manhwa (Korean graphic novels), a format which has been part of Korean popular culture since the early 20th century.