This is a list of digital library projects.
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| 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 | |
| Aozora Bunko | Japanese language | Digitized Japanese language texts. | Aozora Bunko | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| ArXiv | Science | Preprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. | Cornell University | |
| L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels | French literature | Digitizes French texts in the public domain. | Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers | |
| Ludwig von Mises Institute: Literature | Libertarianism & Economics | Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources | Ludwig von Mises Institute | |
| Avalon Project | Legal studies & History | Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy | Yale Law School | |
| Baen Free Library | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Science fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen Books. | Baen Books | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| British Library: Online Gallery | General | The British Library's Online Gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials. | British Library | |
| California Digital Library | ||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||||
| 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 Media Repository | Arts & Humanities, Middletown studies | Ball State University | ||
| Digital Public Library of America | General | |||
| Directory of Open Access Journals | General | |||
| Domínio Público | ||||
| EEBO - Early English Books Online | ||||
| eGranary Digital Library | Educational resources from over 2,000 Web sites and hundreds of CD-ROMs. | An off-line digital library for communities with inadequate Internet bandwidth, i.e. developing countries, rural schools, prisons. | Over 30 million resources in every format: books, journals, Web sites, video, audio, software, multimedia... Includes tools for patrons to create, upload, share, and archive their own content. Has built-in search tools and Web 2.0 services like Moodle, WordPress and Drupal. | The WiderNet Project, a service program of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. |
| 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. | |||
| 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 digitized collections from the University's libraries, museums, archives and special collections, covering subjects such 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 | |
| HathiTrust | General | 10,000,000+ | ||
| Humanities Text Collection | Humanities | University of Michigan | ||
| Humbul | Humanities hub | |||
| Hungarian Electronic Library | Hungarian literature | |||
| Ibiblio | 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 memory | General | Internet Memory Foundation is a non-profit institution. It actively supports the preservation of Internet as a new media for heritage and cultural purpose. | ||
| Internet History Sourcebooks Project | ||||
| Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) | ||||
| Internet Sacred Text Archive | ||||
| 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. | ||
| The Kurdish Digital Library | General | The Digital Library consists of writings about the Kurds and Kurdistan. Its aim is to make the Kurdish cultural heritage available as digital data. Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text. | Kurdish Institute of Paris | |
| 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. | ||
| Marx and Engels Internet Archive | ||||
| Marxists Internet Archive | ||||
| Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage | General | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| Mutopia project | ||||
| NALANDA | ||||
| National Academies Press | General | 3,600+ | ||
| National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program | General | |||
| National Library for the Blind | General | |||
| New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery | General | |||
| New Zealand Electronic Text Centre | ||||
| 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. | ||
| Perseus Project | General | |||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| World Digital Library | General | Library of Congress | ||
| Zeno.org |
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