Introducing Newsjunkie’s Guide to Public Archives

Table of Contents

1. National libraries & archives

2. Regional, state, municipal libraries & archives

3. University libraries & archives

4. Government publication repositories

5. Science repositories, non-governmental

6. Academic & nonprofit institutional repositories

7. Museums

8. Manuscript & literature archives

9. Photography, film, video, & audio archives

10. TV, radio, & newspaper archives

11. Presidential libraries

12. Cultural, community, & single-subject archives

13. Genealogical archives

14. Law libraries

15. Map archives

16. Sports archives

17. Military archives

18. Business archives

19. Virtual archives (digital materials only)

20. General repositories

What is the Guide to Public Archives?

This Guide is a directory to the world’s knowledge repositories, physical and digital. It provides information on an archive’s subject matter, location and hours, and how to access.

What’s in it?

The Guide is composed of three types of elements: maps, lists and pages.

• Maps: Click here for a visual guide to the world’s archives

• Lists are in two forms:

  • Table of contents (above)

  • Search result sets

    • Newsjunkie advanced search

    • Newsjunkie general search

• Pages are single subject: a category of archive, or a specific archive (similar to Wikipedia)

How do I use it?

There are three main ways to use the Guide to Public Archives: Portal, Advanced search, and General search. 

1. Portal: Start with the Table of Contents (above). Click a section to explore. A list of matching archives will appear, from which you can choose the ones you want to check out. 

2. Section search: Use Newsjunkie advanced search to explore the database by filtered criteria. For example: select archive and military to find results for military archives.

3. General search: Use Newsjunkie general search to explore based on keywords.