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This is a list of projects related to digital libraries.

Open access in general

Suber's Timeline of the Open Access Movement

Searches and Meta-Indices

For librarians

Magazines and news

General collections

Azerbaijan National Electronic Library Network [1]
Access My Library [2]
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [3]
Arts and Humanities Data Service [4] - Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities
American Literature Hypertexts [5]
ASERL Directory of Digital Library Projects [6] (Click on "Digitization Directory" from menu.)
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [7]
Bibliotheca Universalis [8]
Biblomania [9]
Bibliovault [10] - a growing collection of older, recently published, and new books from participating scholarly presses.
Bookyards - Library To The World - Free eBooks
British Library [11]
Carrie [12] is a full text electronic library
Coach House Press [13]
DigBib.Org [14] - a big collection of freely available literature in the German language
Digital Librarian [15]
Distributed Proofreaders [16] is a project supporting Project Gutenberg.
The Electronic Text Center at Virginia University [17]
Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka"
Foundation Rastko-Boka News
eLib [18]
eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory [19]
Google Book Search [20]
ibiblio [21]
The Internet Archive [22]
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 [23]
JSTOR [24] - page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
Leeds University ebooks and directory [25]
The Library Without Walls [26]
Library of Congress Digital Library project [27]
Literatures in English at Northwestern University [28]
Making of America collections
Merlot [29]
The Million Book Project [30] aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2007.
National Academies Press [31] as of June 2006 had more than 3600 books freely available in open access formats
National Library for the Blind [32]
Netlibrary [33]
The New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery [34]
New Zealand Digital Library [35] Research project hosting several historical, humanitarian and development information digital collections.
The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center [36]
The Online Archive of California
Online Book Initiative [37]
The Online Books Page [38], 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 [39]
Open Content Alliance
Open University Library [40]
Oxford Text Archive [41]
Pandora Archive [42]
Peeters Online Journals [43] a digital library that covers more than 50 journals in fulltext.
Peeters Online Bibliographies [44] digital bibliographies making use of crossreferencing and library catalogues.
Perseus Project [45]
Planet PDF [46]
Project Andria [47] focuses on preservation our free digital heritage on the long-term. The project was initiated by the end of 2003.
Project Gutenberg Australia [48] is an associate to PG, providing texts under Australian copyright law.
Project Gutenberg [49], founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
Questia Online Library [50]
The Rabbithole Library [51] - contains many books that were at some time banned
Read Print [52]
Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service [53]
Scientific Electronic Library (SciElo) [54]
UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) [55]
The University of California Digital Collections
The University of Chicago Library Electronic Text Services [56]
The University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service [57]
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections [58]
Virtually Missouri [59] Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions
The World Wide Web Virtual Library [60]
Wikibooks [61] is a digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
Wikisource [62] is a digital library of out of copyright books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
Wired for Books [63] A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University.
World Digital Library, by the Library of Congress
Worldwide School Library [64]

Themes by alpha

A

Astrology

Astrology and Metaphysical books at Khaldea [66]

Astronomy

Library of online astronomy books
Nasa Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library [67]

Atmospheric

Atmospheric Visualization Collection

Audiobooks

audiobooksforfree.com
Telltale Weekly Free and low-cost audio texts out of copyright.
LibriVox Public domain audiobooks read by volunteers

B

Biology

Biology Library at Lund University

Biotechnology

Biotechnology at NIST

Braille

The Electronic Braille Book Library [68]

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 [69]

Computer Science

Computer Science at NIST
ACM Portal
CiteSeer [70]: A Scientific Literature Digital Library now hosted at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennyslvania State University]
DBLP [71]
HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies [72]
Computer Science Database FIZ Karlsruhe
Daffodil (software) [73]

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

British Academy Portal - Economics and Economic History

Education and Educational Aids

American National Library of Education [74]
CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects [75]
DLESE: Digital Library for Earth System Education [76]

Engineering

Early English Language Libraries

EEBO - Early English Books Online [80]
Renascence Editions - An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 [81]

Environment

American National Library for the Environment [82]
ENVIROnetBASE

F

Fine Arts

Folklore and Legends

Legends

Food

FOODnetBASE

Forced Migration

Forced Migration Online

Free Books

Free E-books

French Language Libraries

l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain. ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
Gallica [87] - French digital library

G

Geology

USGS U.S. Geological Survey - texts online [88]

German language Libraries

Germanic language Libraries

Germanic Lexicon Project - ancient languages including Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Icelandic ...

Gnosticism

The Gnostic Society Library [91]

Government and Politics

UNESCO [92]
American Government Document Search Tools
The Anarchist Library [93]
Spunk Anarchist Library [94]
The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [95]
British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
Marxists Internet Archive [96]
- Marx and Engels Internet Archive [97]
J. V. Stalin Internet Library [98]
The Mondo Politico Library [99]
BOPCRIS - the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995 [100]
European Union documents [101]
People in Action [102]
thrall online library of texts [103]

Greek Language Libraries

H

Health Care

Health Care at NIST [105]

Hebrew Language Libraries

Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.

History

European NAvigator [106] - First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe.
On This Day [107]
Cornell University Library Windows on the Past [108]
Internet History Sourcebooks [109]
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies [110]
The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [111]
British Academy Classical Antiquity Medieval Studies: History and Literature Early Modern History to C1800 Modern History from C1800
Historical Text Archive (HTA) [112]
The Kansas Collection - Letting the voices of the past be heard . . . [113]
New England Historic Photographs Archive [114] - A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA.
Hamilton College Library Digital Collections (American Civil War)[115]
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 [116]
The Portal to Texas History Embark on a voyage of discovery . . .
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe

Homeland Security

Homeland Security at NIST [117]

Humanities and Social Sciences

Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan [118]
Humbul Humanities Hub [119]
British Academy PORTAL [120]
Interlex Past masters [121]
Voice of the Shuttle [122]

Human Rights

Project Diana - Online Human Rights Archive [123]

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 [124]
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 [125]
Internet History Sourcebooks Project [126]
The Latin Library [127]
The Latin Literature at Forum Romanum
Montclair Electronic Text Archive
Perseus Project [128]
Project Libellus

Law

The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [129]
British Academy Portal - Law

Literature

General Literature Sites

Beat Generation

Children's Literature

Classical Literature

Fan Fiction

Gothic

Poetry

Science Fiction

Short stories

East of the Web

Viking Literature

Women Writers

Miscellaneous

Forgotten Futures roleplaying games website includes: Forgotten Futures library of online story texts. Provided for the use of roleplaying gamers

M

Materials Science

Materials Science section at NIST

Mathematics

Medicine

Middle English Language Libraries

Military

American Joint Military Electronic Library

Mysticism

Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati [131]

Music

N

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology at NIST

Nations and Peoples

Africa

British Academy Portal - African and Oriental Studies

The Americas

Early Canadiana Online [137] 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

Australasia and Oceania

Europe

Nordic Language Libraries

Project Runeberg is a project for the Nordic language texts, started in 1992.

O

Occult

The Hidden Gate

P

Patents

Canadian Patents Database [138]

Philosophy

Physics

Polish Language Libraries

Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [139] 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 [140] 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

The Romanian Digital Library

S

Science

Serbian Libraries

Project Rastko [141] publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted.