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The Women's Library participates in a number of collaborative projects for museums, libraries and archives to help researchers identify relevant materials located in instututions throughout the UK.

Expand your search for library materials (books, pamphlets, ephemera, periodicals, zines, audio-visuals)

Expand your search for archives (personal and organisational papers which can include the type of materials find in libraries as well as in musuems i.e. objects, textiles and other visual material)

Expand your search for images (pictures, objects, textiles and other visual material)

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Expanding your search for library materials (books, pamphlets, ephemera, periodicals, zines, audio-visuals)

COPAC is a union catalogue of online catalogues of major university and national libraries in the UK and includes the records of the printed collections of The Women's Library.

Cornucopia is an online database of collection descriptions from a wide range of UK museums, libraries and archives. The descriptions tend to be at institutional level. This includes entries from The Women's Library.

FRAGEN is the result of a pan-European digitisation project, seeking to make available some of the most relevant, inspirational and influential feminist texts published since the 1960s. The Women's Library was the UK project partner and joined 28 other women's libraries, archives and organisations across Europe. The selected books, articles, pamphlets and posters were chosen in partnership with selected feminist activists and academics and are available to view free of charge.

InforM25 is a union catalogue composed of 55 institutions' library catalogues within the M25 region, including London Metropolitan University and The Women's Library.

MASC25 is a unified online resource guide to printed special collections in libraries in Higher Education institutions within the M25 Consortium. It has summary descriptions of individual printed collections, such as the Josephine Butler Society Library held at The Women's Library.

MICHAEL-UK identifies a range of digital material from UK museums, libraries and archives. The online catalogue describes digital collections or multimedia productions (such as online catalogues, websites, online exhibitions, electronic learning resources and CDs). This includes details of online resources provided by The Women's Library. MICHAEL-UK is the national instance of the European project MICHAEL.

Nineteenth Century Serials Edition is an exemplary edition of six nineteenth-century newspaper and periodical titles in electronic form, including The English woman's journal.

SUNCAT is The Serials Union Catalogue is the single most comprehensive source of UK serials and includes the serial holdings of over 70 libraries, including The Women's Library.

Expanding your search for archives (personal and organisational papers which can include the type of materials find in libraries as well as in musuems i.e. objects, textiles and other visual material)

Access to Archives is an online database which holds full catalogues from 418 UK archive offices (over 10 million records), including The Women's Library pre-2008 catalogue. Please note: Access to Archives did not accept any additional catalogues from Spring 2008.

Aim25 is an online database which holds collection descriptions from 49 archive offices of mainly higher education bodies within the M25 area (the London orbital motorway). This database includes collection level descriptions from The Women's Library.

Archives Hub is an online database which holds collection descriptions (and some full catalogues) from archives held by UK universities and colleges. This database includes full catalogues from The Women's Library

Artists' Papers Register is a location register of the archives of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This database includes selected collection descriptions of The Women's Library' archives.

Culture24 is an online resource providing contact details, opening times, and an overview of collections held by individual museums across the UK. Up to date information of exhibitions and events are also easily searachable on this site. The Women's Library submits listings to this site.

DANGO is a Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) across the UK from 1945. This database holds collection descriptions, including archives that have yet to be deposited with record offices and also includes activist groups, charities and voluntary organisations. This database includes collections from the Women's Library.

GENESIS is an online database hosted by The Women's Library. It holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles. This includes collection level descriptions from The Women's Library.

National Register of Archives (NRA) is an online database that indexes manuscripts and archives, predominately within the UK by person, family, organisation and place. The Women's Library is among the publicly accessible archive offices in the UK that send details to the NRA. Details of newly acquired archives are sent on an annual basis, which makes this the most complete tool for locating archives in the UK. As from Jan 2008 the NRA began a project to provide direct links from it's indexes to full online catalogues maintained by individual archive offices. The Women's Library was one of the first archive offices to be included in this project.

UK Web Archiving Consortium is a pilot project to archive websites within the UK domain. The Women's Library contributes to this project by selecting websites about women for The Women's Collection section of the site.

Expanding your search for visuals (images, objects, textiles)and other visual material

Culture Grid opens up a wealth of information from UK museums, galleries, libraries and archives: giving greater access to UK culture, arts and heritage. The site provides access to a range of digital objects such as photographs and audio visual material. The Women's Library has provided a selection of photographs - predominantly women's suffrage.

Directory of Photographic Collections in the UK The Directory is a portal to Institutions in the UK, and provides information and contact details of publicly accessible photographic collections. Search by the holding Institution, the Photographer, the Photographic Studio or the subject to find relevant collections. Please note this is a directory of physical collections - some of the repositories may have online digital versions of their photographs. The Women's Library submits information to this site.

Europeana was launched in 2008, with the goal of making Europe's cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the public. The site provides access to a range of digital objects - photographs, audio visual material - which are searchable by subject, date and country. The Women's Library has provided a selection of photographs - predominantly women's suffrage.

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community. Flickr includes The Women's Library photostream.

HistoryPin is an online community resource which 'pins' digital resources to an online map. Images and videos, as well as comments are added to the site which can be explored by searching for places or themes. HistoryPin includes a small contribution from The Women's Library, though we would be interested in ways to develop this resource.

Mary Evans Picture Library (MEPL) is a home to a unique collection of photographic images many of which are available online. The Women's Library is MEPL's oldest contributor and is continuing to work in collaboration with the organisation by providing images which are hosted as part of the digitised image collection.

VADS (online resource for visual arts) provides "over 100,000 images free for educational use ". The resource includes The Women's Library's banner collection and suffrage collection.

Visible in Stone: a history of women through buildings, 1850-1950 is the result of a research collaboration between English Heritage and London Metropolitan University's Special Collections, displaying the various interactions that women have had with the built environment. The project made extensive use of the libraries' image collections.

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Glomaker is an "authoring tool for learning objects" produced by Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. Marketing the Female Form was produced using Glomaker for use in undergraduate courses on fashion marketing and advertising. The Women's Library provided the images for this resource.

Internet for Women's Studies is a free online tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills and the research process. It includes examples of primary and secondary sources.

Introducing referencing is London Metropolitan University's guide to Harvard, OSCOLA and Numeric referencing styles