The Library 's subscription databases are available to all users in the Library's reading rooms. Virginia residents can access many of the databases remotely after registering for a library account. For resources that can be accessed remotely by all users, please visit the Library's Digital Collections page.
Available to Virginia residents. Requires a Library of Virginia library card or online account.
Available for use only at the Library of Virginia.
Available to Virginia residents. Does not require a Library of Virginia library card or online account.
Digital newspaper archive with coverage spanning from the late 17th century to the present. Includes well-known regional newspapers, as well as small local newspapers in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Panama.
Note: Some titles/locations are not retrieved when using the search functions under the PAPERS tab. Use the BROWSE search for more accurate results.
Digitized books, pamphlets, maps, sermons, political tracts, and more published from 1500 to the early 1900s, with coverage of North, Central and South America and the West Indies. Topics include American and European views of the colonization of the Americas, the American Revolution, the days of the early Republic and Jacksonian period, the antebellum period, the Civil War, Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction, the settlement of the West and the onset of the Gilded Age. Drawn from Joseph Sabin's bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana.
Provides remote access to the daily Washington Post. Requires the creation of a free Washington Post account with email address and password. Access is provided in 7-day increments. Return to the Library's Databases & eBooks page and select the remote access link again to start each new week of access. A mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices. Includes access to the Washington Post archives.