Digital reading room

On this page you will find access to the digitised holdings of the Austrian National Library.

ANNO

ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online is the virtual newspaper reading room of the Austrian National Library. Here you can leaf through and read online historic Austrian newspapers and periodicals.

ALEX

ALEX contains digitised historic texts dealing with laws in Austria. Beside texts on laws that concern the country as a whole, there are also texts on laws in the provinces; there are also available a collection of juridical texts, stenographic protocols, and the law gazette of the German Reich.

Picture Archives Austria

Digitised pictures on contemporary history from the holdings of the Austrian National Library, the historical archives of ORF, the Association for the History of the Workers’ Movement, and the archives of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.

Cherchez la femme

Historic reference works devoted to specifically women’s issues dating from before 1918 have been systematically arranged and described by content, and digitised in excerpts. Various indexes make the access easier.

Archives 1848

The digital Archives 1848 offers a unique holding of broadsheets, text posters, graphics, newspaper editions, and governmental publications on the Revolution of 1848 in the Habsburg Monarchy. The scans can be explored chronologically by place/country and printed out in PDF form.

Women on the Move

The web portal offers historical documents on the women’s movement in Austria from 1848 to 1918. In addition to information on historical personalities, women’s associations and women’s educational institutions in the Habsburg Monarchy, the contents of  women’s periodicals, bibliographical detail, and access to the online documents are available.

Women’s writings

Here we present forgotten Austrian women writers from the turn of the century up to the 1930’s that make the picture of the “New Woman” their theme. As well, the web portal offers belles lettres of Austrian women writers online in full text.

Hofmeister monthly reports

In 1829 the Leipzig music publisher Friedrich Hofmeister began monthly publication of lists of the latest musical works to appear. Those lists were continued until the middle of the 20th century and were incorporated in the list of musical items in the German Bibliography. The Austrian National Library places that work in its original version in digitised form at public disposal.