Our Digital Collections site provides access to some but not all of AU’s digital collections. We choose which collections are digitized based on uses, researcher needs, preservation needs, and copyright.
For a complete list of the electronic holdings for Archives, visit the A-Z list on the Digital Collections site.
Additional scans of yearbooks, The Courier newspaper, and course catalogs are accessible on Internet Archive.
The web archive for American University and web-based Special Collections is accessible on Archive-It.
For further questions about Archives & Special Collections digital collections, please email archives@american.edu.
More digital material can be found in the AU Research Archive (AURA), which is AU's institutional repository. This repository is managed by another unit in the Library.
AU Research Archive (AURA) is the institutional repository for American University’s faculty, staff, and other knowledge creators. The AU Research Archive preserves and makes a variety of research outputs openly available, including working papers, preprints, manuscripts, datasets, theses & dissertations, and more.
For questions about AURA, please email aura@american.edu.
For information about what goes into AURA vs the Digital Collections site please review the linked webpage.
