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This is a list of digital library projects.


Name Subject(s) Volumes 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]
Atoll Digital Library General Document publishing system that allows users to create their own digital library Opale-concept
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 literature 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
Cambridge Digital Library Foundations of Science & Foundations of Faith Cambridge University Library contains evidence of some of the greatest ideas and discoveries over two millennia. We want to make our collections accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection and a thirst for knowledge. Cambridge Digital Library
CARPET Computer science & Information science A free online community that gives an overview and a collaboration platform for academic reviewing, publishing and editorial software technology CARPET[13]
Carrie An early full text electronic library
Center for Research Libraries General (CRL): Edward Hunter (1902–1978) collection
Chinese Text Project Chinese classic texts Electronic library of early Chinese texts. Chinese Text Project[14]
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Choral Public Domain Library
CiteSeerX Computer science & Information science A Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine hosted at Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse Civil Rights
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online Biology
Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
DELOS General European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
DigiLibraries.com General Free eBooks library DigiLibraries.com
Digicoord General Digitisation's projects of Swiss libraries and archives Swiss National Library
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 325,473
Digital Public Library of America General
Directory of Open Access Journals General
DL.org Digital Library Manifesto, Digital Library Reference Model, Interoperability Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations DL.org
Domínio Público
EEBO - Early English Books Online
EuDML: The European Digital Mathematics Library Mathematics Digital library service that will collate the current distributed content.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Europeana 10,000,000+ digital objects Linking archives, libraries, museums and audio-visual material from across Europe.
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[15]
Friedberg Genizah Project Cairo Genizah Digital Images, catalogue data, transcriptions, bibliographical references and much more for all 250,000 fragments of the Cairo Genizah, hosted at over 60 libraries and private collections, among them the Cambridge University Library and British Library.
Gallica French digital library
Greenpilot Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture A digital library focusing 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 12,000,000+
Harvard University Library digital collections General Links to a growing number of digitized collections from the University's libraries, museums, archives and special collections.

LDI Funded Projects: covering such wide-ranging subjects as art, architecture, religion, history, culture, botany, biology, landscape design, music, politics, law, and advertising. Projects involved digitizing of analog collections (including images, text, audio files, and music scores), georeferencing maps, or harvesting web resources.

 Harvard University[16][17][18]
HathiTrust General 10,000,000+
HebrewBooks (he:HebrewBooks) Hebrew-Jewish-Rabbinical books 45,000+ [5]
Higher Intellect General 250,000+
Humanities Text Collection Humanities University of Michigan[19]
Humbul Humanities hub
Hungarian Electronic Library Hungarian literature
Ibiblio General
Indiana University Digital Library Program General
International Dunhuang Project Manuscripts International collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and other archaeological sites at the eastern end of the Silk Road. British Library and twenty other institutions
International Music Score Library Project
Internet Archive General 3,100,000+
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[20]
JournalServer Academic journals 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.
KIDS-D General Collections of free learning resources in Thai. A digital library developed under Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Thinking Project. Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Thinking Project, http://www.ait.ac.th Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
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
Librivox Public Domain books in the United States An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English.
Literary Kicks
Making of America collections General
Marefa Arabic literature Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script. [21]
Marx and Engels Internet Archive
Marxists Internet Archive
Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage General
Media History Digital Library Mass media "Non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access"[22][23] (e.g. Photoplay, Business Screen) Media History Digital Library
Medical Heritage Library History of medicine "A digital curation collaborative [that] ... promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine"[24][25] Medical Heritage Library
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
MyFree-eBooks General 2,000+
The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library MPDL covers material from 1900 to the present. It encompasses the diverse cultural, political and social factors influencing the practice of philanthropy as well as the significant contributions from across Muslim-majority countries to contemporary global philanthropic practice. The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library[26]
Mutopia project
NALANDA
National Academies Press General 3,600+
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program General
National Library for the Blind General
NATO Libguides Web-resources platform and research guide on NATO-related issues: Arctic Security, Energy Security, Cyber Space Security, Missile Defence, Arms control, International Security, Terrorism, etc. NATO Multimedia Library
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
NLTR Bengali literature A comprehensive digital archive of Bengali literature. SNLTR
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 1,000,000+
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 AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Pandora Archive General
Panjab Digital Library General A NGO digitizing and preserving cultural heritage of Punjab. There are many historically significant documents stored and made available online. Its scope covers Sikh and Punjabi culture. The library funded by The Nanakshahi Trust was launched online in August 2009. It is located at Chandigarh.
Papyrus European research project General
Perseus Project General
Polona National Digital Library Polish Literature Systematically growing amount of digitized resources of National Library of Poland. National Library of Poland
Project Ben-Yehuda Hebrew literature Digitizes Hebrew public domain works in all non-religious genres by volunteer work. Hebrew Literature Digitization Society (עמותה למחשוב ספרות עברית)
Project Diana Online Human rights library
Project Gutenberg General 38,000+ 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 Dutch literature A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001.
Project Madurai Tamil literature A collection of Tamil literature. [6]
Project Noolaham General
Project Rastko Serbian literature Publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted.
Project Runeberg Nordic literature
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
Runivers Russian literature Website devoted to Russian culture and history.
Saudi Digital Library General 110,000+ SDL[27]
SciElo
Sophie
South Asian American Digital Archive South Asian Americans Documents, preserves and provides access to the material history of the South Asian American community.
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[28]
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library Indian literature 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 1,500,000+ A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries.[29] Working with government and research partners in India (Digital Library of India) and China, the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to the books on the web.
University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service General
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections General University of Wisconsin–Madison[30]
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[31]
World Digital Library General Library of Congress
Zeno.org
E-Pustakalaya General Contains a wide variety of materials under Creative Commons.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Al-Islam.org
  2. ^ Aozora Bunko (in Japanese)
  3. ^ Arnetminer.org
  4. ^ Arts and Humanities Data Service
  5. ^ ArXiv
  6. ^ ABU: l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
  9. ^ Baen Free Library
  10. ^ Bookshare - Accessible Books for Individuals with Print Disabilities
  11. ^ British History Online
  12. ^ British Library: Online Gallery
  13. ^ Carpet-Project.net
  14. ^ Chinese Text Project
  15. ^ [2]
  16. ^ http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/
  17. ^ http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digproj/projlist.html
  18. ^ http://e-research.lib.harvard.edu/V/?func=find-db-1-locate&mode=locate&F-WRD=&F-WCL=&F-WPB=&F-WFL=&F-WTY=Harvard+digital+collections&restricted=all
  19. ^ Humanities Text Collection
  20. ^ [3]
  21. ^ Marefa
  22. ^ Media History Digital Library. Accessed 2011-10-01
  23. ^ Richard Brody. Excavation by illustration. New Yorker Online, Sept. 21, 2011. Accessed 2011-10-01
  24. ^ Medical Heritage Library. Retrieved 2011-10-01
  25. ^ What’s up with the open access Medical Heritage Library?. Openbiomed.info, June 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-01
  26. ^ [4]
  27. ^ Saudi Digital Library - Accessible Books for Higher Education
  28. ^ The TITUS (Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Language Materials) database
  29. ^ "ULIB [About Us"]. Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.ulib.org/ULIBAboutUs.htm. 
  30. ^ University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  31. ^ Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection

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