List of digital library projects
From Exampleproblems
This is a list of projects related to digital libraries.
General Collections
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [1]
- Arts and Humanities Data Service [2] - Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities
- American Literature Hypertexts [3]
- ASERL Directory of Digital Library Projects [4] (Click on "Digitization Directory" from menu.)
- Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [5]
- Bibliotheca Universalis [6]
- Biblomania [7]
- Bibliovault [8] - a growing collection of older, recently published, and new books from participating scholarly presses.
- British Library [9]
- Carrie [10] is a full text electronic library
- Coach House Press [11]
- DigBib.Org [12] - a big collection of freely available literature in the German language
- Digital Librarian [13]
- Distributed Proofreaders [14] is a project supporting Project Gutenberg.
- The Electronic Text Center at Virginia University [15]
- Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka"
- eLib [16]
- Google Print [17] List of free titles
- ibiblio [18]
- The Internet Archive [19]
- The Internet Public Library - a cataloguing initiative that makes it easy to search for online books by author, title, keyword, etc.
- JournalServer - an international initiative to create a free digital library of academic journals [20]
- JSTOR [21] - page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
- Leeds University ebooks and directory [22]
- The Library Without Walls [23]
- Library of Congress Digital Library project [24]
- Literatures in English at Northwestern University [25]
- Making of America collections
- Merlot [26]
- The Million Book Project [27] aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2005.
- National Academies Press [28]
- National Library for the Blind [29]
- Netlibrary [30]
- The New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery [31]
- New Zealand Digital Library[32] Research project hosting several historical, humanitarian and development information digital collections.
- The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center [33]
- The Online Archive of California
- Online Book Initiative [34]
- The Online Books Page [35], while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
- Online Text Library of the University of Texas [36]
- Open Content Alliance
- Open University Library [37]
- Oxford Text Archive [38]
- Pandora Archive [39]
- Peeters Online Journals [40] a digital library that covers more than 50 journals in fulltext.
- Peeters Online Bibliographies [41] digital bibliographies making use of crossreferencing and library catalogues.
- Perseus Project [42]
- Planet PDF [43]
- Project Andria [44] focuses on preservation our free digital heritage on the long-term. The project was initiated by the end of 2003.
- Project Gutenberg Australia [45] is an associate to PG, providing texts under Australian copyright law.
- Project Gutenberg [46], founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
- Questia Online Library [47]
- The Rabbithole Library [48] - contains many books that were at some time banned
- Read Print [49]
- Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service [50]
- Scientific Electronic Library (SciElo) [51]
- UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) [52]
- The University of California Digital Collections
- The University of Chicago Library Electronic Text Services [53]
- The WWW Virtual Library [54]
- Wikibooks [55] is a digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
- Wikisource [56] is a digital library of out of copyright books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
- Worldwide School Library [57]
Specific Themes (alphabetical)
A
Agriculture
- American National Agricultural Library [58]
Alchemy
Archeology
Astrology
Astronomy
- Library of online astronomy books
- Nasa Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library [60]
Atmospheric
Audiobooks
- audiobooksforfree.com
- Telltale Weekly Free and low-cost audio texts out of copyright.
B
Biology
Biotechnology
Braille
Brazilian Language Libraries
- Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante de Língua Portuguesa digitizes Portuguese texts in the public domain.
C
Canadian
- Early Canadiana Online - A digital library containing over 1,500,000 pages in more than 8,500 volumes.
- Peel's Prairie Provinces
Chemistry
- Chemistry at NIST
- Chemistry eJournals links at University of Washington[62]
Computer Science
- Computer Science at NIST
- ACM Portal
- CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
- DBLP Bibliography
- HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
- Computer Science Database FIZ Karlsruhe
- Daffodil: Computer Science Portal
D
Dutch Language Libraries
- Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Literatuur Dutch language digital library project
- Project Laurens Janszoon Coster A collection of Dutch high literature
E
Economics
Education and Educational Aids
- American National Library of Education [63]
- CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects[64]
Engineering
- Engineering at NIST[65]
- Engineering Village 2 [66]
- ENGnetBASE [67]
- NALANDANetwork of Automated Library AND Archives.
Early English Language Libraries
- EEBO - Early English Books Online [68]
- Renascence Editions - An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 [69]
Environment
F
Fine Arts
- AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Visual Arts
- British Academy Portal - History of Art and Music
- Dada Library [71]
- Journals at Artsource [72]
- Mary Reynolds Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago [73]
- Michigan State University Fine Arts Library [74]
Food
Forced Migration
French Language Libraries
- l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain.
- Gallica [75] - French digital library
G
Geology
- USGS U.S. Geological Survey - texts online [76]
German language Libraries
- e-text.org [77]
- University of Göttingen [78]
- Austrian literature online [79]
- Projekt Gutenberg-DE [80]
Germanic language Libraries
- Germanic Lexicon Project - ancient languages including Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Icelandic ...
Gnosticism
Government and Politics
- UNESCO [82]
- American Government Document Search Tools
- The Anarchist Library [83]
- Spunk Anarchist Library [84]
- British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
- Marxists Internet Archive [85]
- J. V. Stalin Internet Library [87]
- The Mondo Politico Library [88]
- BOPCRIS - the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995 [89]
- European Union documents [90]
- People in Action [91]
- thrall online library of texts [92]
Greek Language Libraries
H
Health Care
Hebrew Language Libraries
- Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.
History
- European NAvigator [94] - Brings together thousands of multimedia documents on the history of a united Europe.
- On This Day [95]
- Cornell University Library Windows on the Past [96]
- Internet History Sourcebooks [97]
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies [98]
- The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [99]
- British Academy Classical Antiquity Medieval Studies: History and Literature Early Modern History to C1800 Modern History from C1800
- Historical Text Archive (HTA) [100]
- The Kansas Collection - Letting the voices of the past be heard . . . [101]
- New England Historic Photographs Archive [102] - A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA.
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections (American Civil War)[103]
- 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 [104]
Homeland Security
Humanities and Social Sciences
- Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan [106]
- Humbul Library [107]
- British Academy PORTAL [108]
- Interlex Past masters [109]
- Voice of the Shuttle [110]
Human Rights
- Project Diana - Online Human Rights Archive [111]
Hungarian language libraries
I
Indonesian Digital Library Network IndonesiaDLN
Italian language libraries
- Progetto Manuzio hosts over 900 public-domain texts
- Italian Women Writers at the University of Chicago
J
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.
K
L
Language
- Wordtheque - Word by word multilingual library [112]
- Early Modern Languages and Literature to c. 1800
- British Academy Portal - Modern Languages and Literature from c. 1800
- British Academy Portal - Linguistics and Philology
- 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
Latin Language Libraries
- Armarium Labyrinthi: Labyrinth Latin Bookcase [113]
- The Latin Library
Law
Literature
- Bartleby Library - Great Books On-line [114]
- The Literary Gothic [115]
- http://www.literature.org/
- Literature Online
- Forgotten Futures roleplaying games website includes: Forgotten Futures library of online story texts. Provided for the use of roleplaying gamers
- Pulp Fiction
- http://www.online-literature.com/
- jough.com/ literature site - various online archives
- bookzen
- Alt-X
- Darkness - Gothic writing
- Read Print
Short stories
Specific Authors
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
O
P
Q
R
S
- William Shakespeare - [129] Shakespeare Literature, Chapter-indexed, searchable versions of Shakespeare's works
- Steven Shaviro - [130]
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Classics
Folklore and Legends
Children's Books
Poetry
- Poetry X
- Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive
- American Verse Project
- Electronic Poetry Center
- Open Poetry Project
- Spondee
Beat Generation
Science Fiction
Women Writers
Fan Fiction
- tales of the Common People
- Movieverse
- The Great Comic Book MiSTing Site
- Blood in the Gutter
- The Wayside
- Tales from the Wildways
M
Materials Science
Mathematics
- American Mathematical Society books online
- Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
- MATHnetBASE
- Ethnomathematics Digital Library
- The Mathematics Preprint Server
- Project Euclid: A partnership of independent publishers of mathematics and statistics journals
- The Math Forum
- Electronic Library of Mathematics
- American National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactives Mathematics
- Mathematics at NIST
- Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques (Scanning of ancient mathematical documents)
Medicine
- American National Library of Medicine
- British National Electronic Library for Health
- British National Electronic Library for Mental Health
- Medic@ - Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine et d'odontologie (Paris)
- Free Books for Doctors
Military
Mysticism
Music
N
Nanotechnology
Nations and Peoples
Africa
The Americas
- Early Canadiana Online [140] holds over a million page images of early Canadian book.
- American Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (put online at Oklahoma State University)
- Chronicles of Oklahoma
- Our Homes are Bleeding Digital Collection (by Union of BC Indian Chiefs)
Asia
- JNUL - Jewish National & University Library
- National Library of China - Electronic Resources
- The Council on East Asian Libraries Homepage - The official homepage of CEAL, the organization for East Asian librarians in North America
- The TITUS database (Thesuarus of Indo-European textes and languages materials), aims to prepare all textual material relevant for Indo-European Studies (including Middle Iranian, Tocharian etc.) in electronic form for analysis.
Australasia and Oceania
Europe
- European NAvigator- Brings together thousands of multimedia documents on the history of a united Europe
- Gabriel, Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
- National Libraries of Europe
- National Library of Russia
- National Library of Scotland - Digital Library
- National Library of Wales - Digital Mirror
- Celt - Corpus of Electronic Texts (UCC) - The online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents - From Western Europe -- Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
- Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka" (Herceg-Novi, Serbia and Montenegro) - The first electronic library of Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska
Nordic Language Libraries
- Project Runeberg is a project for the Nordic language texts, started in 1992.
O
Occult
P
Patents
Philosophy
Physics
Polish Language Libraries
- Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [142] is gathering the digital versions of Polish language Texts.
Psychology
Q
R
Religion
- Theravada Buddhist Text Archives
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet
- Grace Online Library - ual labyrinth project
- Internet Christian Library
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library [143] focuses on making text available of Christian literature.
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
- Infidels - Secular Web Library
- British Academy Portal - Theology and Religious Studies
- Theravada Buddhist texts online at http://www.nibbana.com/ There is also a site at http://www.triplegem.plus.com/ (URL may change)
- Avesta -- Zoroastrian Archives
- The Nag Hammadi Library
- The Digital Christian Library
Research
Romanian Language Libraries
S
Science
- National Science Digital Library
- Scientific Electronic Library Online
- Public Library of Science
- Science Direct
Serbian Libraries
- Project Rastko [144] publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted.
Space
Social Anthropology and Geography
Sociology, Demography and Social Studies
Sports
Statistics
Survivalism
T
Tamil Language Libraries
Technology
Text
Theosophy
- Theosophy
- American Theosophy Online Library
- The Pasadena Theosophy online library
- The Campbell Theosophical Research Library
U
V
Visual storytelling
W
Women
X
Y
Z
Searches and Meta-Indices
- Library Search Engines
- refdesk.com/ list of Electronic Texts on the Internet
- Online Texts Search (1) (Mamma)
- Online Texts Search (2) (Metacrawler)
- Open Directory Project: Online Writing
- http://www.libraryspot.com/
- A site for online librarians
- Webring: Fan fiction
