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This is a list of projects related to digital libraries and open access materials online.
Open access in general
Searches and Meta-Indices
- Library Search Engines
- refdesk.com/ list of Electronic Texts on the Internet
- Online Texts Search (Metacrawler)
- eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory
- Libweb - a large International library resource.
- Open Directory project - some digital libraries.
For librarians
Magazines and news
General collections
- African Digital Library [1]
- Azerbaijan National Electronic Library Network [2]
- Access My Library [3]
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [4]
- Arts and Humanities Data Service [5] - Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities
- American Literature Hypertexts [6]
- ASERL Directory of Digital Library Projects]] [7] (Click on "Digitization Directory" from menu.)
- Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [8]
- Bibliotheca Universalis [9]
- Biblomania [10]
- Bibliovault [11] - a growing collection of older, recently published, and new books from participating scholarly presses.
- Bookyards - Library To The World - Free eBooks
- British Library [12] or [13]
- Carrie (digital library) [14] is a full text electronic library
- Coach House Press [15]
- Cambridge Univ. Open Access Digital Library [16]
- DigBib.Org [17] - a big collection of freely available literature in the German language
- Digital Librarian [18]
- Distributed Proofreaders [19] is a project supporting Project Gutenberg.
- The Electronic Text Center at Virginia University [20]
- Exploratorium Digital Library [21]
- Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka"
- Foundation Rastko-Boka News
- eLib [22]
- eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory [23]
- Google Book Search [24]
- ibiblio [25]
- Indian University Digital Library [26]
- The /Internet Archive [27]
- 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 [28]
- JSTOR [29] - page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
- Leeds University ebooks and directory [30]
- Los Angeles Public School District Digital Library [31]
- The Library Without Walls [32]
- Library of Congress Digital Library project [33]
- Literatures in English at Northwestern University [34]
- Making of America collections
- Merlot online community [35]
- The Million Book Project [36] aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2007.
- National Academies Press [37] as of June 2006 had more than 3600 books freely available in open access formats
- National Library for the Blind [38]
- Netlibrary [39]
- The New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery [40]
- NYPL Collections [41]
- New Zealand Digital Library [42] Research project hosting several historical, humanitarian and development information digital collections.
- The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center [43]
- The Online Archive of California
- Online Book Initiative [44]
- The Online Books Page [45], while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
- Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin [46]
- Open Content Alliance
- Open University Library [47]
- Oxford Text Archive [48]
- Pandora Archive [49]
- Peeters Online Journals [50] a digital library that covers more than 50 journals in fulltext.
- Peeters Online Bibliographies [51] digital bibliographies making use of crossreferencing and library catalogues.
- Perseus Project [52]
- Planet PDF [53]
- Project Andria [54] focuses on preservation our free digital heritage on the long-term. The project was initiated by the end of 2003.
- /Project Gutenberg [55] and [56], founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
- Questia Online Library [57]
- The Rabbithole Library [58] - contains many books that were at some time banned
- Read Print [59]
- Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service]] [60]
- Scientific Electronic Library (SciElo) [61]
- UChicago Digital South Asia Library [62]
- UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) [63]
- The University of California Digital Collections
- The University of Chicago Library Electronic Text Services [64]
- The University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service [65]
- The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections [66]
- Virtually_Missouri|Virtually Missouri [67] Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library [68]
- Wikibooks [69] is a digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
- Wikisource [70] is a digital library of out of copyright books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
- Wired for Books [71] A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University.
- World Digital Library, by the Library of Congress
- Worldwide School Library [72][73]
Themes by alpha
A
Agriculture
- American National Agricultural Library [74]
Alchemy
Archeology
Astrology
Astronomy
- Library of online astronomy books
- Nasa Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library [76]
Atmospheric
Audiobooks
- audiobooksforfree.com
- Telltale Weekly Free and low-cost audio texts out of copyright.
- LibriVox Public domain audiobooks read by volunteers
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[78]
Computer Science
- Computer Science at NIST
- ACM Portal
- CiteSeer [79]: A Scientific Literature Digital Library now hosted at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennyslvania State University]
- DBLP [80]
- HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies [81]
- Computer Science Database FIZ Karlsruhe
- Daffodil (software) [82]
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 [83]
- CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects[84]
- DLESE: Digital Library for Earth System Education [85]
Engineering
- Engineering at NIST[86]
- Engineering Village 2 [87]
- ENGnetBASE [88]
- NALANDANetwork of Automated Library AND Archives.
Early English Language Libraries
- EEBO - Early English Books Online [89]
- Renascence Editions - An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 [90]
Environment
F
Fine Arts
- AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Visual Arts
- British Academy Portal - History of Art and Music
- Dada Library [92]
- Journals at Artsource [93]
- Mary Reynolds Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago [94]
- Michigan State University Fine Arts Library [95]
Folklore and Legends
Food
Forced Migration
Free Books
French Language Libraries
- l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain. ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
- Gallica [96] - French digital library
G
Geology
- USGS U.S. Geological Survey - texts online [97]
German language Libraries
- University Library at Brunswick, Lower Saxony
- e-text.org
- University of Göttingen [98]
- Austrian literature online
- Projekt Gutenberg-DE [99]
Germanic language Libraries
- Germanic Lexicon Project - ancient languages including Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Icelandic ...
Gnosticism
Government and Politics
- UNESCO [101]
- American Government Document Search Tools
- The Anarchist Library [102]
- Spunk Anarchist Library [103]
- The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [104]
- British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
- Marxists Internet Archive [105]
- J. V. Stalin Internet Library [107]
- The Mondo Politico Library [108]
- BOPCRIS - the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995 [109]
- European Union documents [110]
- People in Action [111]
- thrall online library of texts [112]
Greek Language Libraries
- Project Libellus
- Perseus Project [113]
- Textkit - provider of free and downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers
H
Health Care
Hebrew Language Libraries
- Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.
History
- European NAvigator [115] - First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe.
- On This Day [116]
- Cornell University Library Windows on the Past [117]
- Internet History Sourcebooks [118]
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies [119]
- The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [120]
- British Academy Classical Antiquity Medieval Studies: History and Literature Early Modern History to C1800 Modern History from C1800
- Historical Text Archive (HTA) [121]
- The Kansas Collection - Letting the voices of the past be heard . . . [122]
- New England Historic Photographs Archive [123] - A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA.
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections (American Civil War)[124]
- 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 [125]
- The Portal to Texas History Embark on a voyage of discovery . . .
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Homeland Security
Humanities and Social Sciences
- Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan [127]
- Humbul Humanities Hub [128]
- British Academy PORTAL [129]
- Interlex Past masters [130]
- Voice of the Shuttle [131]
Human Rights
- Project Diana - Online Human Rights Archive [132]
Hungarian language libraries
I
Indonesian Digital Library Network IndonesiaDLN
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
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 [133]
- 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 [134]
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project [135]
- The Latin Library [136]
- The Latin Literature at Forum Romanum
- Montclair Electronic Text Archive
- Perseus Project [137]
- Project Libellus
Law
- The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [138]
- British Academy Portal - Law
Literature
see separate section, below
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
Middle English Language Libraries
Military
Mysticism
Music
- Choral Public Domain Library [140]
- Danman's Music Library [141]
- Duke Sheet Music [142]
- Musopen [143]
- Mutopia project [144]
- University of North Texas Music Library's Virtual Rare Book Room [145]
- Library of Congress presents Music, Theater, and Dance [146]
- Loeb Music Project at Harvard [147]
- Sheet Music Consortium [148]
- Templeton Music Museum (MS State) [149]
N
Nanotechnology
Nations and Peoples
Africa
The Americas
- Early Canadiana Online [150] 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)
- Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library contains city planning material about the Portland Metropolitan Area.
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
- Foundation Rastko-Boka News
- STARN: Scots Teaching and Resource Network
Nordic Language Libraries
- Project Runeberg is a project for the Nordic language texts, started in 1992.
O
Occult
P
Patents
Philosophy
- British Academy Portal - Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant Texts
- Divine Life Society Online Books
- Immanuel Kant Complete Works(German)
Physics
Polish Language Libraries
- Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [152] 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 [153] 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
- Kabbalah Digital Library one of the largest multi-language collections of ancient and modern Kabbalistic writings
- Seminary Library Christian theological reference works
Research
Romanian Language Libraries
S
Science
- National Science Digital Library
- Scientific Electronic Library Online
- Public Library of Science
- Science Direct
Serbian Libraries
- Project Rastko [154] 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-Z
Visual storytelling
Women
Literature
General Literature Sites
- 4Literature
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
- American Authors
- Arthur's Classic Novels
- Athelstane E-Books
- Athena
- Bartleby Library: Great Books Online www.bartleby.com
- The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
- Bibliomania
- Blackmask
- BookRags
- Books-On-Line
- The Bralyn Archives
- Classic Bookshelf
- ClassicReader.com
- Documenting the American South
- Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
- Encyclopedia of the Self: Online Classical Literature Library
- The English Server
- The Free Library
- Gaslight
- Great Books Index
- Great Literature Online
- Humanities Text Initiative
- IntraText Digital Library
- JollyRoger.com Great Books Library
- KnowledgeRush
- LiteratureClassics.com
- The Literature Network
- Litrix Reading Room
- Luminarium
- The Mad Cybrarian's Library
- The Making of America
- Mastertexts
- The On-Line Books Page
- Online Literature Library
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
- Organization for Community Networks Bookshelf
- Oxford Text Archive
- Page By Page Books
- Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org
- ReadPrint
- Renascence Editions
- UTEL:The University of Toronto English Library
- The Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
- World Wide School Library
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Beat Generation
Children's Literature
- The Baldwin Project
- Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project
- International Children's Digital Library
- World Wide School Library
Classical Literature
- The Internet Classics Archive
- The Latin Library
- The Latin Literature at Forum Romanum
- Montclair Electronic Text Archive
- The Perseus Digital Library
- Project Libellus
Fan Fiction
- Blood in the Gutter
- Fanfiction Paradies (German site)
- The Great Comic Book MiSTing Site
- Movieverse
- Tales from the Wildways
- Tales of the Common People
- The Wayside
Gothic
Poetry
- The Academy of American Poets
- American Verse Project
- Electronic Poetry Center
- A Little Archive of Poetry
- Open Poetry Project
- Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive
- Poem Hunter.com
- The Poetry Archives
- Poetry X
- Poets' Corner
- Representative Poetry On-line
- Sonnet Central
- Spondee
- Twentieth-century Poetry in English
Science Fiction
Short stories
Viking Literature
Women Writers
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- Chawton House Library
- The Emory Women Writers Resource Project
- E-text Library of 19th Century American Women Writers
- Women Writers Online
Miscellaneous
- Forgotten Futures roleplaying games website includes: Forgotten Futures library of online story texts. Provided for the use of roleplaying gamers
Literature by author
A
B
- William Blake - The William Blake Archive
- The Brontës - The Brontë Sisters Web
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - ERBmania!
C
- Lewis Carroll - The Lewis Carroll Home Page
- Miguel de Cervantes - The Cervantes Project
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Chaucer MetaPage
- Noam Chomsky - ZNet's Noam Chomsky Archive
D
- Dante Alighieri - Digital Dante, Renaissance Dante in Print, The World of Dante
- Charles Dickens - The Dickens Page
E
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Watershed Online: Emerson: A Visionary Life
- Friedrich Engels - Marx and Engels Internet Archivewww.marxists.org/archive/marx/
F
G
H
I
J
- Sarah Orne Jewett - The Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project
- Annie Fellows Johnston - Annie Fellows Johnston and The Little Colonel
- James Joyce - Joycean.org
K
L
- William Langland - The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
- Ring Lardner - Lardnermania
- Jack London - The Jack London Collection
- H.P. Lovecraft - The H.P. Lovecraft Archive, The Lovecraft Library
M
- Karl Marx - Marx and Engels Internet Archivewww.marxists.org/archive/marx/
- Xander Mellish - Xander Mellish: Stories and Cartoons
- Thomas MacGreevy - The Thomas MacGreevy Archive
- Edna St. Vincent Millay - Isle of Lesbos: The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- John Milton - The John Milton Reading Room, Dartmouth College
N
O
P
Q
R
- Christina Rossetti - Isle of Lesbos: Poetry of Christina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Rossetti Archive
S
- Rafael Sabatini - The Life and Work of Rafael Sabatini
- William Shakespeare - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare Literature
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site