List of Digital Library Projects

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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