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List of digital library projects
This is a partial list of digital library projects.
- For bibliographic databases consisting primarily of magazines, journals and other periodicals, see List of academic databases and search engines.
- For individual online exhibitions from primarily physical collections, search for the name of the sponsoring institution.
| Name | Subject(s) | Description | Provider(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP) | Islam | Digitizes and presents resources related to history, law, and society of the Islamic religion and its personalities with particular emphasis on the Twelver Shi'ah Islamic school of thought. | Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project[1] | |
| Aozora Bunko | Japanese language | Digitized Japanese language texts. | Aozora Bunko[2] | |
| Arnetminer | Computer science & Information science | A free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University | Arnetminer[3] | |
| Arts and Humanities Data Service | Arts & Humanities | Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities. Ceased operation in 2008. Website is still active. | King's College London[4] | |
| ArXiv | Science | Preprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. | Cornell University[5] | |
| l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels | French language | Digitizes French texts in the public domain. | Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers[6] | |
| Ludwig von Mises Institute: Literature | Libertarianism & Economics | Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources | Ludwig von Mises Institute[7] | |
| Avalon Project | Legal studies & History | Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy | Yale Law School[8] | |
| Baen Free Library | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Science fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen Books. | Baen Books[9] | |
| Bookshare | General | A library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to people with print disabilities. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books in the collection | Benetech[10] | |
| British History Online | History | Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. | Institute of Historical Research, the History of Parliament Trust, and the University of London[11] | |
| British Library: Online Gallery | General | The British Library's Online Gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials. | British Library[12] | |
| California Digital Library | ||||
| Carrie | An early full text electronic library | |||
| Center for Research Libraries | General | (CRL): Edward Hunter (1902-1978) collection | ||
| Christian Classics Ethereal Library | ||||
| Choral Public Domain Library | ||||
| CiteSeerX | Computer science & Information science | A Scientific Literature Digital Library hosted at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University | ||
| Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse | Civil Rights | |||
| The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies | ||||
| The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online | Biology | |||
| Connexipedia | Social justice encyclopedia | Texts related to struggles for social justice. | Connexions Information Sharing Services | |
| Cornell University Library Windows on the Past | ||||
| DELOS | General | European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries | ||
| Digital Accounting Collection | Accounting | |||
| Digital Bibliography and Library Project | ||||
| Digital Himalaya | Himalayas | |||
| Digital library for Dutch literature | Government-funded digital library project. | |||
| Digital Library of Georgia | General | |||
| Digital Library of India | ||||
| Directory of Open Access Journals | General | |||
| Domínio Público | ||||
| EEBO - Early English Books Online | ||||
| EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History | ||||
| Europeana | French contribution to the European Digital Library | |||
| The European Library | General | |||
| European NAvigator | First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe. | |||
| EUscreen | EUscreen provides free online access to Europe's television heritage | EUscreen[13] | ||
| Gallica | French digital library | |||
| Greenpilot | Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture | A digital library focussing on Nutritional, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences. Targeting both scientific researchers and the interested public it aims to provide the user with relevant scientific literature which is both easy to access and of high quality. | German National Library of Medicine, ZB MED | |
| Greenstone (software) | General | |||
| Google Books | General | |||
| HathiTrust | General | |||
| Higher intellect project | General | 250,000+ texts on a variety of subjects | ||
| Humanities Text Collection | University of Michigan[14] | |||
| Humbul | humanities hub | |||
| Hungarian Electronic Library | Hungary | |||
| ibiblio | General | |||
| Indiana University Digital Library Program | General | |||
| International Music Score Library Project | ||||
| Internet Archive | General | |||
| Internet History Sourcebooks Project | ||||
| Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) | ||||
| Internet Sacred Text Archive | ||||
| Islamicdoc Digital Library Project (Islamic information and documentation center, Qom, Iran ) | Islamic sciences | Organizing, digitizing and presenting resources related to Islamic(Shi'ah)sciences and religion based on Islamic thesauruses. | [[islamicdoc Digital Library Project]][15] | |
| JournalServer | General | An international initiative to create a free digital library of academic journals | ||
| JSTOR | General | Subscription required. Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text. | ||
| Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library | General | |||
| LacusCurtius | Classical studies | Ancient Rome texts and Archaeology | ||
| The Latin Library | ||||
| Library of Congress Digital Library project | General | |||
| Library of Economics and Liberty | Liberty Fund | |||
| Literary Kicks | ||||
| Making of America collections | General | |||
| Marefa | Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script. | [16] | ||
| Marx and Engels Internet Archive | ||||
| Marxists Internet Archive | ||||
| Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage | General | |||
| Michael: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe | General | A project funded by the European Commission to give access to digital collections in European archives, museums and libraries. | ||
| Michigan Digitization Project | General | |||
| Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library | General | |||
| Million Book Project | General | |||
| Musopen | ||||
| Mutopia project | ||||
| NALANDA | ||||
| National Academies Press | General | More than 3600 books freely available in open access formats | ||
| National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program | General | |||
| National Library for the Blind | General | |||
| New England Historic Photographs Archive | A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA. | |||
| New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery | General | |||
| New Zealand Electronic Text Centre | ||||
| OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center | General | |||
| Online Books Page | General | Provides an extensive list of digital book available online. | ||
| Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin | General | |||
| On This Day | ||||
| Open Content Alliance | General | |||
| Open Library | General | |||
| Open University Library | General | The online Library from the Open University is a gateway to a wide range of online information resources. The Library website provides access to a world-class collection of resources that enhance the learning experience of students and support the learning, teaching, research and personal development of members of staff. | Open University Library | |
| Oxford Text Archive | General | |||
| Pandora Archive | General | |||
| Papyrus European research project | General | |||
| Perseus Project | General | |||
| Project Ben-Yehuda | Digitizes Hebrew classics. | |||
| Project Diana | Online Human rights library | |||
| Project Gutenberg | General | Founded in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts. | ||
| Project Gutenberg Australia | General | Providing texts under Australian copyright law. | ||
| Project Laurens Janszoon Coster | A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001. | |||
| Project Madurai | A collection of Tamil literature. [4] | |||
| Project Noolaham | General | |||
| Project Rastko | publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted. | |||
| Project Runeberg | Nordic language texts | |||
| Project Sugita Genpaku | Translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed. | |||
| Projekt Gutenberg-DE | ||||
| Questia Online Library | General | |||
| Rare Book Room | General | |||
| Rubicon Research Repository | environmental physiology | |||
| SciElo | ||||
| Sophie | ||||
| Sources Select Resources | Media, journalism, research | Documents and experts for journalists, editors, researchers. | SOURCES | |
| Texas Digital Library | General | |||
| Text Creation Partnership | General | Three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP) | ||
| TITUS - Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Language Materials database | Aims to prepare all textual material relevant for Indo-European Studies (including Middle Iranian, Tocharian etc.) in electronic form for analysis | Goethe University Frankfurt[17] | ||
| Traditional Knowledge Digital Library | India | Repository of the traditional knowledge of India, setup to protect the ancient and traditional knowledge of the country from exploitation such as Unethical patents and monopolization | ||
| Tufts Digital Library | General | Digitized holdings of the University archives with manuscript collections such as the Edward R. Murrow and Walter B. Wriston collections. | Tufts University | |
| UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) | General | |||
| United States National Agricultural Library | Agriculture | |||
| US National Library of Medicine | ||||
| Universal Digital Library | General | |||
| University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service | General | |||
| University of Wisconsin Digital Collections | General | University of Wisconsin'Madison[18] | ||
| vascoda | General | German internet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search | ||
| Virtually Missouri | General | Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions | ||
| Welsh Journals Online | General | National Library of Wales | ||
| Wordtheque | Word by word multilingual library | |||
| World Wide Web Virtual Library | General | |||
| Wikibooks | General | A digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia. | ||
| Wikisource | A digital library of out of copyright books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia. | |||
| Wired for Books | A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University. | |||
| Wisconsin Heritage Online | A collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history. | |||
| Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection | History | Wisconsin state, regional, and local history books, journals, and museum collections | Wisconsin Historical Society[19] | |
| World Digital Library | General | Library of Congress | ||
| zeno.org |
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