Designed to meet the needs of the research community, The European Library opens up exciting new opportunities for researchers worldwide.
- Free online access to the collections of leading national and research libraries across Europe: We offer convenient access to the collections of national and research libraries in 46 countries.
- Millions of high quality sources, one search box: With a single search, you can cross-search over 200 million records simultaneously.
- All types of content, broad subject coverage: From rare books and manuscripts to images and video, The European Library helps you to find materials relevant to your research, whatever your specialist area.
- A wealth of digitised, full text and multi-media materials: Discover over 24 million pages of full text content and more than 7 million digital objects.
- Powerful search capabilities: A wide range of search options, combined with high quality metadata and a central index, enables you to pinpoint the content you need quickly. You can also search within searches, and refine results by multiple criteria.
- Convenient personalisation options: Specify your preferences such as language, save and re-run search queries, and register for alerts when new content in your area of interest is added.
- Valuable research tools: Export records to reference management services such as Mendeley and Zotero, and download metadata for data mining and exploitation.
- Metadata available free of charge: Registered users can download and re-use high quality metadata.
- Many special features: Our timelines display content by date. There are also specially-curated themed collections and a regular programme of special exhibitions.
- Links to other websites: A search in The European Library will also generate relevant results from other websites such as Europeana.
