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This is a list of projects related to digital libraries.

[edit] General collections

• AccessMyLibrary
• AJOL - African Journals OnLine - free multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed, African-published academic journals.
• Arts and Humanities Data Service - Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities
• British Library
• Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
• Digital Library of Georgia
• DELOS - European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
• The European Library
• Free in India Books - A collection of Indian libraries of Free Books
• Google Book Search
• Harvard University Library Digital Initiative
• ibiblio
• Indiana University Digital Library Program
• The Internet Archive
• JournalServer - an international initiative to create a free digital library of academic journals
• JSTOR - page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
• Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
• Library of Congress Digital Library project
• Making of America collections
• Michael: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe is a project funded by the European Commission to give access to digital collections in European archives, museums and libraries.
• Michigan Digitization Project
• The Million Book Project aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2007.
• National Academies Press as of June 2006 had more than 3600 books freely available in open access formats
• National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
• National Library for the Blind
• The New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery
• The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center
• Online Book Initiative
• The Online Books Page - while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library - 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
• Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin
• Open Content Alliance
• Open University Library
• Oxford Text Archive
• Pandora Archive
• Perseus Project
• Project Gutenberg Australia is an associate to PG, providing texts under Australian copyright law.
• Project Gutenberg - founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
• Project Noolaham
• Questia Online Library
• Rare Book Room
• The Text Creation Partnership's three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP)
• UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC)
• Universal Digital Library
• The University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service
• The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore, India
• Virtually Missouri - Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions
• Welsh Journals Online at the National Library of Wales
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Wikibooks is a digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
• Wikisource is 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.
• World Digital Library, by the Library of Congress

[edit] Specific Themes (alphabetical)

[edit] A

[edit] Accounting

• Digital Accounting Collection

[edit] Avant-Garde

• Avant Garde Project Music
• UbuWeb Poetry, music, writing, film and video.

[edit] Agriculture

• United States National Agricultural Library

[edit] Anthropology

• Digital Himalaya

[edit] B

[edit] Biology

• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

[edit] C

[edit] Computer Science

• CiteSeer : A Scientific Literature Digital Library now hosted at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University]
• DBLP
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

[edit] D

[edit] E

[edit] Economics

• Austrian Economics Literature from the Ludwig von Mises Institute [1]
• Liberty Fund's Library of Economics and Liberty [2]
• Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty [3]

[edit] Education

• MERLOT online community [4]

[edit] Engineering

• NALANDA

[edit] Ethics

• Globethics.net Library

[edit] F

[edit] Fine Arts

• AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Visual Arts
• British Academy Portal - History of Art and Music
• Dada Library [5]
• Journals at Artsource [6]
• Mary Reynolds Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago [7]
• Michigan State University Fine Arts Library [8]
• History of garden design - Garden History Online Library

[edit] Folklore and Legends

• Legends

[edit] Food

• FOODnetBASE

[edit] Forced Migration

• Forced Migration Online

[edit] G

[edit] Geology

• USGS U.S. Geological Survey - texts online [9]

[edit] Scotland

• Glasgow Digital Library - based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The GDL provides free access to unique resources for the citizens of Glasgow and elsewhere. It comprises original collections on a variety of topics related to Glasgow and Scotland including Socialism, Railways, the Scottish Parliament, Mountaineering and Antarctic Exploration.

[edit] Gnosticism

• The Gnostic Society Library [10]

[edit] Government and Politics

• UNESCO [11]
• American Government Document Search Tools
• The Anarchist Library [12]
• Spunk Anarchist Library [13]
• The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [14]
• British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
• The Cyber Cemetery, an archive of websites of defunct U.S. Government agencies
• Marxists Internet Archive [15]
  • Marx and Engels Internet Archive [16]
• J. V. Stalin Internet Library [17]
• The Mondo Politico Library [18]
• BOPCRIS - the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995 [19]
• European Union documents [20]
• People in Action [21]

[edit] H

[edit] Harvard Classics

• Harvard Classics - Harvard Classics at MobileRead in E-Book Form

[edit] Health Care

• Health Care at NIST [22]

[edit] History

• American Social History Online 19th and 20th century primary resources-- from Digital Library Federation
• European NAvigator - First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe.
• On This Day
• Cornell University Library Windows on the Past [23]
• Internet History Sourcebooks [24]
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies [25]
• The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• British Academy Portal [26]
  • Some historical sections: Classical Antiquity Medieval Studies: History and Literature Early Modern History to C1800 Modern History from C1800
• British History Online Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
• Carrie an early full text electronic library
• Central Florida Memory is a unique digital collection where visitors can discover the history of Central Florida.
• Cleveland Memory Project (CMP) [27] - on-line resources about the history of Cleveland, Ohio and Northeast Ohio.
• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
• Hamilton College Library Digital Collections (American Civil War)[28]
• Hanover Historical Texts Project - [29]
• Historical Text Archive (HTA) [30]
• The Kansas Collection - Letting the voices of the past be heard . . . [31]
• Marin County Free Library California Room Digital Archive - Oral histories with audio clips, digital photograph albums on Marin County and Bay Area history, Frank Lloyd Wright resources, and more [32]
• Medievel and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project [33]
• New England Historic Photographs Archive - A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA.
• Ohio's Heritage Northeast (OHNE) [34] - searches the on-line local history projects of six participating libraries in Northeast Ohio.
• The Portal to Texas History Embark on a voyage of discovery . . .
• Historion
• Wisconsin Heritage Online[35], a collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history.
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image - various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music

[edit] Homeland Security

• Homeland Security at NIST [36]
• Homeland Security Digital Libraryat Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense & Security

[edit] Humanities and Social Sciences

• Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan [37]
• Humbul Humanities Hub, See Humbul
• British Academy Portal [38]
• Voice of the Shuttle (Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara)

[edit] Human Rights

• Project Diana - Online Human Rights Archive [39]

[edit] I

[edit] Indian Digital Library

• Digital Library of India

Indian Digital Library (lakshman)

[edit] Islamic libraries

• Al-Islam.org Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP) is the largest Islamic digital library on the Internet, hosting 4500+ resources.

[edit] J

[edit] K

[edit] L

[edit] Language

• Wordtheque - Word by word multilingual library [40]
• Early Modern Languages and Literature to c. 1800
• British Academy Portal - Modern Languages and Literature from c. 1800
• British Academy Portal - Linguistics and Philology
• Medievel and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project - including CSLI publications [41]
• The TITUS (Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Language Materials) database, which aims to prepare all textual material relevant for Indo-European Studies (including Middle Iranian, Tocharian etc.) in electronic form for analysis

[edit] Chinese

• Center for Research Libraries_(CRL): Edward Hunter (1902-1978) collection

[edit] Dutch Language Libraries

Literature

• Digital library for Dutch literature Official website Government-funded digital library project.
• Project Laurens Janszoon Coster Official website A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001.
• Collection of Dutch books on Project Gutenberg
• Collections of Dutch books on the Nationale Library of the Netherlands website; see Special Collections for the majority of works available.
• Collections of Dutch books on the Memory of the Netherlands website; see Art and Culture - Literature for the majority of works available.
• History of Literature National Dutch, Flemish and West-European medieval literature from 500 - 1500.
• Biblioo Free e-books on various subjects.
• Institute about Dutch History see Biographies and the Encyclopedia of 450 total and 6 digital separate books on Dutch history for the majority of works.
• Collection of Dutch writings on Western European Studies Section: Dutch Literature and Language
• Library of the university of Amsterdam has 10,000 free e-books about most scientific disciplines in Dutch and English.
• Large collections of Dutch books on the Internet Archive: open content Alliance (no search by language possible; no separate Dutch language collection) and the European library (Search by language possible; no separate Dutch language collection).

Essays and articles

• Digital library of studies, reports, articles, end essays and doctorate essays.
• NARCIS: DAREnet Scientific texts.
• Staten-Generaal Digital chamber reports, chamber pieces and chamber questions of the Upper Chamber and the House of Commons in the period 1984 up to 1995.

Newspapers

• Historical newspapers in view 4 newspapers: het Centrum, de Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, het Vaderland and het Volk from 1910 - 1945.
• Krantenbank Zeeland 5 newspapers (1795 - 1998) from the Dutch province of Zeeland.
• The newspaper archive (1877 - 1940) of the independant Amsterdam newspaper (the) De Groene Amsterdamer

Media

• Sound and Image Collection of digital sound, music, film and images.
• ANP Historic Foto Archive Foto and images.
• Memory of the Netherlands Collection of digital sound, music, film and images.
• Film and Foto Archive - Noord-Brabant has more than 100,000 pictures and 250 films about the Dutch province of northern Brabant.
• Image Bank of the National Archive website.
• Churches Framed 60,000 images of Dutch churches.
• Image archive of Amsterdam has more than 250,000 pictures in her archive.

Digitization projects

• Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland (DEN) Has a list of digitization projects in Dutch.

[edit] Early English Language Libraries

• EEBO - Early English Books Online

[edit] French Language Libraries

• l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain. ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
• Europeana - French contribution to the European Digital Library
• Gallica [42] - French digital library
• Bibliotheq.net
• Cyberlibris Famili
• Cyberlibris Academia
• Cyberlibris Cognito

[edit] German language Libraries

• University Library at Brunswick, Lower Saxony
• [43] - crosslingual, semantic retrieval
• DigBib.Org [44] - a small collection of freely available literature in the German language
• e-text.org
• University of Göttingen [45]
• Austrian literature online
• Projekt Gutenberg-DE [46]
• zeno.org [47]

[edit] Germanic language Libraries

• Germanic Lexicon Project - ancient languages including Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Icelandic ...

[edit] Greek Language Libraries

• Anemi, The Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies
• Kosmopolis - A Digital Collection of 19th and early 20th century Greek Journals
• Project Libellus
• Perseus Project
• Textkit - provider of free and downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers
• TLG - Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

[edit] Hebrew Language Libraries

• Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.

[edit] Hungarian language libraries

• Hungarian Electronic Library
• Electronic Periodical Archives and Database
• National Digital Data Archive

[edit] Indonesian Digital Library Network

• IndonesiaDLN

[edit] Italian language libraries

• Biblioteca Italiana http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/
• Progetto Manuzio hosts over 900 public-domain texts
• Italian Women Writers at the University of Chicago
• E-Biblioteca hosts over 2.000 public-domain texts

[edit] Japanese Language Libraries

• Aozora Bunko digitized Japanese language texts.
• Project Sugita Genpaku translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.

[edit] Latin Language Libraries

• Armarium Labyrinthi: Labyrinth Latin Bookcase [48]
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project [49]
• The Latin Library [50]
• The Latin Literature at Forum Romanum
• Montclair Electronic Text Archive
• Perseus Project [51]
• Project Libellus

[edit] Middle English Language Libraries

• Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
• TEAMS Middle English Texts

[edit] Nordic languages libraries

• Project Runeberg is a project for the Nordic language texts, started in 1992.
• Vifanord Virtual library about the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Nordic countries and the Baltic countries (by the universities of Greifswald, Göttingen, and Kiel)

[edit] Polish Language Libraries

• Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [52] is gathering the digital versions of Polish language Texts.
• Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych - Search engine [53] for more than 150 000 publications in Polish digital libraries

[edit] Portuguese Language Libraries

• Biblioteca Nacional Digital
• Biblioteca Nacional Digital
• Biblioteca Digital Camões
• Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante de Língua Portuguesa digitizes Portuguese texts in the public domain.
• Biblioteca Digital de Literatura e História Literária digitizes Portuguese texts in the public domain.
• Biblioteca Digital de Obras Raras digitizes Portuguese texts in the public domain.
• Domínio Público

[edit] Romanian Language Libraries

• The Romanian Digital Library

[edit] Russian Language Libraries

• Maksim Moshkow's Library (lib.ru)
• FictionBook.lib
• Aldebaran OCR Library
• Fenzin.org
• InetLib

[edit] Spanish language libraries

• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes The largest hispanic digital library.
• Biblioteca de Traductores A Digital Historical Resource of Iberian and American Translations.

[edit] Tamil Language Libraries

• Tamil Electronic Library

[edit] Law

• The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [54]
• British Academy Portal - Law

[edit] Library and Information Science

• dLIST, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology - [55]

[edit] Literature

[edit] General Literature Sites

• 4Literature
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
• American Authors
• Arthur's Classic Novels
• Athena
• Bartleby Library: Great Books Online www.bartleby.com
• The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
• Bibliomania
• Blackmask
• BookRags
• Books-On-Line
• The Bralyn Archives
• Classic Bookshelf
• ClassicReader.com
• Classiq.net
• Cyberlibris Cognito
• Documenting the American South
• Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
• Encyclopedia of the Self: Online Classical Literature Library
• The English Server
• The Free Library
• Gaslight
• Great Books Index
• Great Literature Online
• Humanities Text Initiative
• IntraText Digital Library
• JollyRoger.com Great Books Library
• KnowledgeRush
• LiteratureClassics.com
• The Literature Network
• Litrix Reading Room
• Luminarium
• The Mad Cybrarian's Library
• The Making of America
• ManyBooks.net formatting for PDAs and iPods
• Mastertexts
• The On-Line Books Page
• Online Literature Library
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Organization for Community Networks Bookshelf
• Oxford Text Archive
• Page By Page Books
• Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org
• ReadPrint
• Renascence Editions
• UTEL:The University of Toronto English Library
• The Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
• World Wide School Library
• Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

[edit] Beat Generation

• Literary Kicks

[edit] Children's Literature

• The Baldwin Project
• Baldwin Library of Children's Literature
• Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project
• International Children's Digital Library
• World Wide School Library

[edit] Classical Literature

• The Internet Classics Archive
• The Latin Library
• The Latin Literature at Forum Romanum
• Montclair Electronic Text Archive
• The Perseus Digital Library
• Project Libellus

[edit] Fan Fiction

• Blood in the Gutter
• Fanfiction Paradies (German site)
• The Great Comic Book MiSTing Site
• Movieverse
• Tales from the Wildways
• Tales of the Common People
• The Wayside

[edit] Gothic

• Darkness: tales of mystery, horror and suspense
• The Literary Gothic www.litgothic.com

[edit] Poetry

• Poesies.net: All the public domain French poetry on line. (Weekly update.)
• The Academy of American Poets
• American Verse Project
• Electronic Poetry Center
• A Little Archive of Poetry
• Open Poetry Project
• Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive
• Poem Hunter.com
• The Poetry Archives
• Poetry X
• Poets' Corner
• Representative Poetry On-line
• Sonnet Central
• Spondee
• Twentieth-century Poetry in English

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