This is a list of digital library projects. [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
- Bookshare - a library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to print disabled members. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books in the collection
- British Library
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
- DELOS - European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Digital Mechanism and Gear Library
- DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
- The European Library
- Free in India Books - A collection of Indian libraries of Free Books
- Greenstone_(software)
- Google Book Search
- Higher intellect project - 250,000+ texts on a variety of subjects
- 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
- Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage
- 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 Northern California Digital Library
- 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 Library isn't technically a library, just a database of books.
- 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 Rubicon Research Repository is a digital collection of environmental physiology documents.
- The Text Creation Partnership's three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP)
- TIDES (Teaching, Images & Digital Experiences)
- UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC)
- Universal Digital Library
- The University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service
- The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- vascoda: German internet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search
- 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] Economics
- European NAvigator - First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe.
- On This Day
- Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
- Internet History Sourcebooks [2]
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies [3]
- The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- British Academy Portal [4]
- 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
- Cleveland Memory Project (CMP) [5] - 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)[6]
- Hanover Historical Texts Project - [7]
- Historical Text Archive
- The Kansas Collection
- 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
- 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) [8] - 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[9], 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
- TIDES (Teaching, Images & Digital Experiences) Specializes in historic and cultural resources from East Texas, including documents, maps and photographs.
[edit] Indian Digital Library Indian Digital Library (lakshman) - Al-Islam.org Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP) is the largest Islamic digital library on the Internet, hosting 4500+ resources.
Marefa digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script. Sooran دانلود كتاب و نرم افزار Receive educational book Arabic and Persian [edit] Dutch Language Libraries Literature Essays and articles Newspapers Media Digitization projects - EEBO - Early English Books Online
[edit] Greek Language Libraries [edit] Hebrew Language Libraries [edit] Latin Language Libraries - Ketabtoon is the only digital library of Pashto language.
Receive educational book Arabic and Persian - Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [27] is gathering the digital versions of Polish language Texts.
- Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych - Search engine [28] for more than 150 000 publications in Polish digital libraries
[edit] Russian Language Libraries - dLIST, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology - [30]
[edit] General Literature Sites [edit] Materials Science
[edit] Psychology [edit] Serbian Libraries [edit] Sports [edit] Urdu Literature Kitaab Ghar; Digital Library of Free Urdu Books kitaabghar.com is a growing collection of free Urdu books, most of them are available to download and offline reading. It has variety of books, mostly novels and afsanays (short stories). [edit] See also [edit] External links |