Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF). It provides online access to the national archive of books, manuscripts, periodicals, maps, images and sound recordings.

Launched by the BNF in 1997, Gallica contains an extensive collection of digitized documents, ranging from medieval manuscripts to early twentieth-century books and journals. Recent documents in the public domain are also included in the catalogue.

The home page provides direct access to a basic search and, via a single click, to the advanced search using Boolean operators. Online help is available (in French) for complex queries. Users can also talk to BNF librarians via the Gallica blog. The site is partly translated into English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The home page also invites users to "Explore" the rich content of Gallica relating to a particular personality or event, for example. A link at the bottom of the page takes users to a theme-based search page.

Documents in Gallica can be consulted online or downloaded, either page by page or in full. Its collections include, for example, nine books by Jacques Bertillon, statistical yearbooks of France from 1878, L'Histoire de la population française by Emile Levasseur, and the complete works of Montesquieu.

Users can create their own personal account in order to record their favourite documents, tag important pages and save their query results.

Gallica also provides access to the historical archives of the BNF and of its partners, including the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine, the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, the Université de Strasbourg, and more.

Certain document records in Inédoc, the INED bibliographic database, include a direct link to the digitized document in Gallica.