The museum works with many other organizations to share information about the Colorado Plateau. The links below may help in your quest for knowledge and many include images or materials from MNA.
Resources
Arizona Archives Online
Provides free public access to descriptions of archival collections preserved and made accessible by Arizona repositories, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums.
View PublicationArizona Memory Project
Provides access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona archives, museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions. Visitors to the site will find some of the best examples of government documents, photographs, maps, and multimedia that chronicle Arizona’s past and present.
View PublicationAmerican Southwest Virtual Museum
The Museum of Northern Arizona, Northern Arizona University, and the National Park Service partnered to create this digital repository of photographs, maps, information, and virtual tours. Technicians took 3D photos of many artifacts from MNA’s collections, which are available for virtual exploration.
View PublicationArizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records
Collects, preserves and makes available to the public and all branches of government, permanent public records, historical manuscripts, photographs and other materials that contribute to the understanding of Arizona history.
View PublicationBioDiversity Heritage Library
Improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (
).
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Houses more than 1.4 million volumes, including some 460,000 print book and 6,000 print serial titles and has access to more than 232,000 e-books, 140 databases, 88,000 e-journals and newspapers, 80,000 streaming videos and 132,000 streamed sound recordings. Their Special Collections and Archives holds 20 million unique items focused on the Colorado Plateau and Northern Arizona. OpenKnowledge@NAU, NAU’s institutional repository, gathers NAU teaching, research and creative output in a central, open location.
View PublicationDirectory of Open Access Journals
A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
View PublicationHathiTrust Digital Library
– A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
View PublicationJSTOR
Provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
View PublicationSEInet
The SEINet data portal was created to serve as a gateway to distributed data resources of interest to the environmental research community within Arizona and New Mexico. Through a common web interface, they offer tools to locate, access and work with a variety of data. SEINet is more than just a web site – it is a suite of data access technologies and a distributed network of collections, museums and agencies that provide environmental information.
View PublicationWorldCat
The world’s largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.
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