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This is a 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 Wikipedia 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] |
| 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 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 | |||
| 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
[5] |
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 | |||
| 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 | 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] | |
| 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 | ||
| HebrewBooks (he:HebrewBooks) | Hebrew-Jweish-Rabbinical books | over 45,000 books | [6] |
| Higher intellect project | General | 250,000+ texts on a variety of subjects | |
| Humanities Text Collection | University of Michigan[16] | ||
| Humbul | humanities hub | ||
| Hungarian Electronic Library | Hungary | ||
| 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 artefacts 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 | ||
| 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[17] |
| 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. | |
| 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 | Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script. | [18] | |
| 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"[19][20] (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"[21][22] | 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 | ||
| Million Book Project | General | ||
| 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[23] | |
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Panjab Digital Library | General | A NGO digitizing and preserving cultural heritage of Panjab. 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 | General | Systematically growing amount of digitized resources of National Library of Poland. | National Library of Poland |
| 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. [7] | ||
| 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 | ||
| Runivers | Russian language | Website devoted to Russian culture and history. | |
| Saudi Digital Library | General | A library serving accessible books to people. Currently over 110,000 popular and educational books in the collection | SDL[24] |
| 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[25] | |
| 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[26] | |
| 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[27] |
| World Digital Library | General | Library of Congress | |
| zeno.org | |||
| E-Pustakalaya | General | Contains a wide variety of materials under Creative Commons. |
See also
- List of academic databases and search engines
- List of internet search engines
- List of journals available free online
- List of online encyclopedias
- List of online databases
References
- ^ Al-Islam.org
- ^ Aozora Bunko (in Japanese)
- ^ Arnetminer.org
- ^ Arts and Humanities Data Service
- ^ ArXiv
- ^ ABU: l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels
- ^ [1]
- ^ Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- ^ Baen Free Library
- ^ Bookshare - Accessible Books for Individuals with Print Disabilities
- ^ British History Online
- ^ British Library: Online Gallery
- ^ Carpet-Project.net
- ^ Chinese Text Project
- ^ [2]
- ^ Humanities Text Collection
- ^ [3]
- ^ Marefa
- ^ Media History Digital Library. Accessed 2011-10-01
- ^ Richard Brody. Excavation by illustration. New Yorker Online, Sept. 21, 2011. Accessed 2011-10-01
- ^ Medical Heritage Library. Retrieved 2011-10-01
- ^ What’s up with the open access Medical Heritage Library?. Openbiomed.info, June 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-01
- ^ [4]
- ^ Saudi Digital Library - Accessible Books for Higher Education
- ^ The TITUS (Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Language Materials) database
- ^ University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- ^ Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection