How to View Our Digitized Collections
Some of our collections have been digitized in full or in part. Digitized content from our collections can be found in a few different places, summarized below.
DeisGallery is the home of distinctive content from Brandeis University, some of which is available digitally.
Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections content on DeisGallery is split into three categories.
- Digitized University Archives Material contains selections from our University Archives, which document the history and functions of Brandeis University and its community.
- Digitized Special Collections Material contains selections from our Special Collections, including manuscript collections, photographs, and rare books.
- Thematic Collections are lists of items which share a common theme: a subject, a creator, or a previous owner. Thematic Collections are primarily composed of published works and are not necessarily digitized.
OneSearch is the Brandeis Library catalog. Results on OneSearch can be filtered to show items available online and/or limited to items owned by Archives and Special Collections. Using both these filter options and entering "?" in the search bar will return all cataloged materials from Archives and Special Collections that can be viewed digitally.
Link to OneSearch results for Archives and Special Collections material available online
Brandeis has contributed more than 1600 publications to the Internet Archive, a freely available online library of digitized works. Brandeis contributions include rare books, institutional publications and more, from the 1500s to the present.
Link to Brandeis University contributions to the Internet Archive
We have created many online exhibits over the years, which often feature digitized materials from our collections. A full list of our exhibits is available on our Online Exhibits page.
Some of our digital materials are available in other locations:
- Brandeis dissertations, master's theses, and senior honors theses are searchable on ScholarWorks in addition to OneSearch. ScholarWorks can be filtered to show Open Access results.
- Some videos from the University Archives are available to stream on the Videos from the Archives page.
- A digitized version of our First Folio is hosted by the University of Victoria's Internet Shakespeare Editions. It is also included in First Folios Compared from Adam Matthew Digital.
- The Civil War Letters of Wellesley College and Brandeis University project is an openly available resource which presents 449 digitized Civil War letters as well as lesson plans, timelines, map, and voice recordings. Brandeis contributed letters from the Michael Lally Letters and Other Material collection, which is also available on DeisGallery. This project was funded by a grant from the Massachusetts Sesquicentennial Commission of the American Civil War.