Open for Research

Posts and news stories about selected collections opened for research. Researchers are encouraged to search the library’s collections to explore the full range of materials, both longstanding and newly acquired or processed

  • How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive (LitHub)

    January 18, 2023

  • An image of a manuscript page with a rubricated initial and black text in gothic script.

    Takamiya MS 98: An Excised Fragment of the Stafford Gower

    March 27, 2022

  • An image of a manuscript page with illuminated and rubricated initials and black text.

    Osborn fa38: An Early Copy of Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica

    January 18, 2022

  • A manuscript drawing of a compass colored with yellow, red, blue and green pigment.

    Turkish MSS Suppl 184

    December 17, 2021

  • Open for Research: John Ashbery Collection of Artwork and Objects

    November 29, 2021

  • Rachel Blau DuPlessis Papers

    January 23, 2020

    The Beinecke Library is pleased to announce a newly acquired collection: the papers of Rachel Blau DuPlessis. DuPlessis is a contemporary American poet,...
  • David Milch Papers

    October 7, 2019

  • Gerrit Lansing Papers

    October 2, 2019

  • Female American Poets: Archival Connections

    April 16, 2019

  • New Acquisition: Steichen Family Papers

    March 8, 2018

  • Mina Loy Papers Online

    December 5, 2017

    The Yale Collection of American Literature is pleased to announce that the Mina Loy Papers have been digitized in their entirety; the collection can be viewed...
  • Open for Research: Rudolph Dunbar Papers

    July 24, 2017

  • Open for Research: Robin Magowan Papers

    July 24, 2017