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This is a list of projects related to digital libraries.

1 General collections
2 Specific Themes (alphabetical)
3 A
- 3.1 Accounting
- 3.2 Avant-Garde
- 3.3 Agriculture
- 3.4 Anthropology
4 B
- 4.1 Biology
5 C
- 5.1 Computer Science
6 D
7 E
- 7.1 Economics
- 7.2 Education
- 7.3 Engineering
8 F
- 8.1 Fine Arts
- 8.2 Folklore and Legends
- 8.3 Food
- 8.4 Forced Migration
9 G
- 9.1 Geology
- 9.2 Scotland
- 9.3 Gnosticism
- 9.4 Government and Politics
10 H
- 10.1 Harvard Classics
- 10.2 Health Care
- 10.3 History
- 10.4 Homeland Security
- 10.5 Humanities and Social Sciences
- 10.6 Human Rights
11 I
- 11.1 Indian Digital Library
- 11.2 Islamic libraries
12 J
13 K
14 L
- 14.1 Language
- 14.2 Chinese
- 14.3 Dutch Language Libraries
- 14.4 Early English Language Libraries
- 14.5 French Language Libraries
- 14.6 German language Libraries
- 14.7 Germanic language Libraries
- 14.8 Greek Language Libraries
- 14.9 Hebrew Language Libraries
- 14.10 Hungarian language libraries
- 14.11 Indonesian Digital Library Network
- 14.12 Italian language libraries
- 14.13 Japanese Language Libraries
- 14.14 Latin Language Libraries
- 14.15 Middle English Language Libraries
- 14.16 Nordic languages libraries
- 14.17 Polish Language Libraries
- 14.18 Portuguese Language Libraries
- 14.19 Romanian Language Libraries
- 14.20 Russian Language Libraries
- 14.21 Spanish language libraries
- 14.22 Tamil Language Libraries
- 14.23 Law
- 14.24 Library and Information Science
- 14.25 Literature
  - 14.25.1 General Literature Sites
  - 14.25.2 Beat Generation
  - 14.25.3 Children's Literature
  - 14.25.4 Classical Literature
  - 14.25.5 Fan Fiction
  - 14.25.6 Gothic
  - 14.25.7 Poetry
  - 14.25.8 Science Fiction
  - 14.25.9 Short stories
  - 14.25.10 Viking Literature
  - 14.25.11 Women Writers
  - 14.25.12 Miscellaneous
  - 14.25.13 Specific Authors
15 M
- 15.1 Materials Science
- 15.2 Mathematics
- 15.3 Medicine
- 15.4 Military
- 15.5 Mysticism
- 15.6 Music
16 N
- 16.1 Nanotechnology
- 16.2 Nations and Peoples
17 O
- 17.1 Occult
18 P
- 18.1 Patents
- 18.2 Philosophy
- 18.3 Physics
- 18.4 Psychology
19 Q
20 R
- 20.1 Religion
- 20.2 Research
21 S
- 21.1 Science
- 21.2 Serbian Libraries
- 21.3 Space
- 21.4 Social Anthropology and Geography
- 21.5 Sociology, Demography and Social Studies
- 21.6 Sports
- 21.7 Statistics
22 T
- 22.1 Technology
- 22.2 Text
- 22.3 Theosophy
- 22.4 Travel and Exploration
- 22.5 Urdu Literature
23 V
24 W
- 24.1 Women
25 X
26 Y
27 Z
28 Searches and Meta-Indices
- 28.1 Search Journals and Magazines
29 See also
30 External links
31 Footnotes

[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.
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
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 Litrature 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] F

[edit] Fine Arts

[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.

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

[edit] Hebrew Language Libraries

Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.

[edit] Hungarian language libraries

[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

[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 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

[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.