[1] The company specializes in online primary source databases and curated collections for the humanities and social sciences.

[8] For example, Empire Online covers the histories of colonial era United States, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, and Britain.

An explanation of their relationship with The National Archives (United Kingdom) has been recorded in a short video [11] which covers the process of selection, preservation and digitisation of materials required to produce resources on topics such as Apartheid South Africa, Confidential Print: Middle East and The Nixon Years.

[12] In January 2016, Adam Matthew partnered with Jisc to provide all UK Higher and Further Education institutions with access to their nineteenth century collection on global immigration, Migration to New Worlds.

[13] In 2013, the company entered into an agreement with the Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission (TSLAC) to provide permanent access to two Adam Matthew digital collections via the TexShare consortium.