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The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 8 million pages of unique manuscripts and letters, antique maps, rare children's literature books, theses and dissertations, newspapers, historic photographs, oral histories, and more. The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) enables users to find unique and rare digitized materials held at the University of Florida and partner institutions.
With UFDC, remote and local researchers have free, Open Access to the full content of the resource. This is a constantly growing collection of resources. The search box above searches across all the digital resources in all the collections. By clicking on the icons below, you can view and search individual collections.
Arts CollectionsThe Arts Collection Group includes collections of arts, from performing arts to graphical arts to comics and also includes architecture and landscape design as well as the psychology in art collection.
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Baldwin Library of Historical Children's LiteratureRare English and American 19th century children's literature from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida.
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Center for the Humanities & the Public SphereThe Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere Digital Collection includes materials from events, research, and teaching.
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History and Heritage CollectionsHistory and heritage collections include the history of florida, the historical role that Florida has played in the greater history of the U.S., and the general history of the United States.
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Literature CollectionsThe literature collections include great literature and children's literature as well as general literary studies collections.
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Samuel Proctor Oral HistoriesThe Oral History Collections comprise the digital holdings of both the Matheson Museum (Gainesville, Florida) and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Together, the
Collections document life in Gainesville, across Florida, the Caribbean and other locales.
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Social Sciences CollectionsHumanities collections ncludes information about general studies of humanities, as well as social movements and the study of people's place in their society. This currently includes two collections about religion and two collections relating to women's studies.
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Food and Agricultural SciencesThe 'Food and Agricultural Sciences' General Collection holds general resources about agriculture, food crops, farming, and soil and climate conditions conducive to agriculture. A main stay of the collection is the publications of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences. Special collections include Florida Historical Agriculture and Rural Life, International Farming Systems, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Survey publications of Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Herbarium CollectionsThe 'University of Florida Herbarium Specimen Collections' provides digital images for selected specimens from the Florida Museum of Natural History / University of Florida Herbarium. |
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Sciences CollectionsThe sciences collections includes natural and earth sciences, herbarium collections, wetlands research, as well as food and agricultural sciences and sciences and technologies.
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Aerial Photography: FloridaHistorical aerial photographs dramatically document changes in Florida's land use. The initial Aerial Photography: Florida collection was funded by two Florida Library Service and Technology Assistant grants from the Florida Department of State.
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Map and Imagery CollectionsMap and imagery collections includes maps of Florida and the world, both historic and contemporary, as well as aerial photographs of Florida.
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Florida Digital Newspaper LibraryThe Florida Digital Newspaper Library, hosted by the University of Florida Libraries, provides access to the news and history of Florida.
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Florida Law CollectionsFlorida Law currently holds the Journal of the Florida House of Reprentatives and a Florida Water Law collection. Planned additions include the Laws of the Florida Territory and the Early Florida Constitutions, as well as a variety of general texts on Florida laws, the legislative process, and government.
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Florida Photograph CollectionsHistoric and contemporary photographs visually document Florida and the University of Florida. This collaborative collection was created with content from several schools within the University of Florida, the Matheson Historical Center Collection, SWFLN, and many other smaller archives, libraries, and museums.
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Living in Florida: Its Cities and PeopleThese collection groups tell the stories of the people that lived in Florida and the cities they built.
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African Studies CollectionsThe Africana Collection supports the past, ongoing and future needs of University of Florida's Center for African Studies, one of the most active and well regarded such centers in the United States of America
and the only United States Department of Education Title VI Center for African Area Studies in the southeast US.
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Asian CollectionsThis digital collection draws from the Asian Studies Collections at the University of Florida, and includes rare resources on Chinese Art History.
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Digital Library of the CaribbeanThe Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
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Judaica CollectionsThe Judaica Digital Collections draw from the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida which, with holdings of 90,000 volumes, is the largest Jewish studies research collection in the southeastern United States. Initial materials selected for digitization are unique and rare items, and more will be added as the Judaica Digital Collections continue to grow.
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South American CollectionsThe South American Collections relect deep intellectual coverage of South America in the University of Florida Libraries. For decades the Libraries have acquired books, journals, newspapers, maps and other materials in print and computer based formats covering all countries and cultures of the region. These holdings are primarily housed in the University's Latin American Collection, but also include important resources in the other units of the UF Libraries, such as the Science Library, Map & Imagery Library, the Art Library, and the Legal Information Center. Researchers can study a wide range of diverse topics including Southern Cone literature and politics, Andean indigenous societies, Brazil’s creative expressions, and South America’s vast natural resources. Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas are also very well represented.
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World Studies CollectionsThe World Studies collections includes area studies outside of the United States, Florida, and the Caribbean.
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Exhibits from the University of Florida and Partners |
Federal Depository Libraries of Florida & the Caribbean |
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Institutional Repository at the University of Florida (IR@UF)The University of Florida Institutional Repositories collections includes both the institutional repository, as well as preserved exhibits and educational modules for teachers created by the University.
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Panama and the CanalPanama and the Canal is a joint project from the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries and the Panama Canal Museum. Panama and the Canal builds from the Panama Canal Museum's rich collection of Panama and Canal Zone materials and the extensive holdings on Panama and the whole of Latin America from the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries.
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Papers of Governor C. Farris BryantThe Papers of Governor C. Farris Bryant cover the years 1942 to 1977, with an emphasis on the Florida Legislative, gubernatorial elections in 1956 and 1960, and his career in the Federal Office of Emergency Planning.
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Teacher Resources CollectionCollection to house teacher resources, primarily lesson plans.
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Women in DevelopmentWomen in Development collects research on societal structures in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. These materials reflect the impact of women in rural and urban settings. They discuss issues of education, economic growth and legal rights among other topics.
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