Center for Religious History Studies joins the Portuguese Archives Network

The Center for the Study of Religious History (UCP-CEHR) joined in March 2021 the Portuguese Archives Network, a project coordinated by the Directorate-General of Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB).

Following this membership, the archival information referenced in the Platform of Personal Archives and Archives of Religious Institutions - PAPIR) is also aggregated in the Portuguese Archives Portal and will soon be referenced in Europeana and in the European Archives Portal.

With this accession, the UCP-CEHR is one of the current 41 entities providing content for the Portuguese Archive Portal. From now on, anyone who makes a global search on this Portal or limited by adhering entity will have access to almost 31,000 records of description and almost 100,000 pages of digitized documents provided by the PAPIR platform.

This is one more of the partnerships that the UCP-CEHR has been engaged in in order to enhance and disseminate the archival heritage, with particular focus on those produced or owned by religious institutions.