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Throughout the Internet History Sourcebooks Project, there are a large number of travelers' accounts. The goal of this page is to bring them together.

This project is based at Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. The project will emphasize women travellers from and to the United States and include selected European women travellers to non-Western areas. AS well as the texts there are some images and suppoerting resources. Please note: some of the texts are password restricted.

AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet. It is the culmination of over forty years of Africana research. The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Africana Periodical Literature) and African Women's literature (African Women). You will also find a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa). In June 2012 two bibliographies were added, one on Islam in Africa, compiled by Paul Schrijver, the other on the Kenya Coast, compiled by Jan Hoorweg. In July 2014 Water and Africa was added. Followed in September 2017 by Education in Africa.

The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing. All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information.

Anemi is primarily a bibliographic database about Greek Modern literature. However, this website also contains full-text editions of some books and periodicals (about 600 at the time of review) and the collections included in the database include many works regarding Greek and Byzantine culture. The available collections are: Neoellinistis; the Greek Digital Bibliography 1476-1900; rare collections from the Library of University of Crete (including travel literature); the Markos Mousouros collection; the Library of the Educational Association of Adrianoupolis; the Goettinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum collection; the University of Ioannina collection; Gallica; Hellinomnimon; and works digitised by Google. Most works in the database are in Greek, but other languages (primarily French, Italian and German) are also represented

Having most relevance for research in Archaeology, History, Politics and Travel, the books and papers of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) were given to Newcastle University Library by Gertrude's half-sister, Lady Richmond, although part of the Doughty-Wylie correspondence came from St. Anthony's College, Oxford.