Information about Archives Online

What is Archives Online?

Archives Online is a search portal for finding archival material in the full text search with the option to limit your query to a selection of archives and / or to a certain range of dates.

How does Archives Online work?

Archives Online is a meta search engine, which sends your query to the linked archival databases, where your query is processed. The results are sent back to Archives Online, where they are listed in descending order depending on their delivery time.

In this manner all the publicly accessible data of the participating archives is available in the latest version of description.

By clicking on a hit in the result list you can open the online database of the selected archive in a new window where you will get more detailed information about your hit.

Operational sequence of the meta search in Archives Online

Who operates Archives Online?

Archives Online is provided by public archives which are together responsible for the content of the website and individually responsible for the content of the delivered results.