User:Sj/Digilibs

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

• Library Search Engines
• refdesk.com/ list of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• Online Texts Search (Metacrawler)
• eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory

For librarians

• http://www.libraryspot.com/
• A site for online librarians

Magazines and news

• magportal.com
• findarticles.com
• opinion-pages.org
• trAce

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]

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Agriculture

• American National Agricultural Library [65]

Alchemy

• The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library

Archeology

• The British Academy Portal - Archeology

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

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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.

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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]

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Dutch Language Libraries

• Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Literatuur Dutch language digital library project
• Project Laurens Janszoon Coster A collection of Dutch high literature

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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

• Engineering at NIST[77]
• Engineering Village 2 [78]
• ENGnetBASE [79]
• NALANDANetwork of Automated Library AND Archives.

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

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Fine Arts

• AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Visual Arts
• British Academy Portal - History of Art and Music
• Dada Library [83]
• Journals at Artsource [84]
• Mary Reynolds Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago [85]
• Michigan State University Fine Arts Library [86]

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

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Geology

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

German language Libraries

• University Library at Brunswick, Lower Saxony
• e-text.org
• University of Göttingen [89]
• Austrian literature online
• Projekt Gutenberg-DE [90]

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

• Project Libellus
• Perseus Project [104]
• Textkit - provider of free and downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers

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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

• Hungarian Electronic Library
• Electronic Periodical Archives and Database

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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

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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.

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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

• 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

• Literary Kicks www.litkicks.com
• Beat Texts

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

• Darkness: tales of mystery, horror and suspense
• The Literary Gothic www.litgothic.com

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

• Baen Free Library [130]
• Wondersmith's Free Sci-fi Classics

Short stories

• East of the Web

Viking Literature

• Northvegr
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Project Runeberg

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

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Materials Science

• Materials Science section at NIST

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

• Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
• TEAMS Middle English Texts

Military

• American Joint Military Electronic Library

Mysticism

• Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati [131]

Music

• Choral Public Domain Library [132]
• Danman's Music Library [133]
• Musopen [134]
• Mutopia project [135]
• University of North Texas Music Library's Virtual Rare Book Room [136]

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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

• 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

• National Library of Australia
• Australian Libraries Gateway

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.

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Occult

• The Hidden Gate

P

Patents

• Canadian Patents Database [138]

Philosophy

• British Academy Portal - Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant Texts
• Divine Life Society Online Books
• Immanuel Kant Complete Works(German)

Physics

• ArXiv
• Physics at NIST

Polish Language Libraries

• Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [139] is gathering the digital versions of Polish language Texts.

Psychology

• ARAS - Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
• British Academy Portal - Psychology

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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

• Los Alamos Research Library
• Oxford Reference
• Virtual Reference Library

Romanian Language Libraries

• The Romanian Digital Library

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Science

• National Science Digital Library
• Scientific Electronic Library Online
• Public Library of Science
• Science Direct

Serbian Libraries

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

Space

• The Goddard Space Flight Center Library

Social Anthropology and Geography

• British Academy Portal - Social Anthropology and Geography

Sociology, Demography and Social Studies

• British Academy Portal - Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics

Sports

• NCAA sports rulebooks online NCAA

Statistics

• STATSnetBASE

Survivalism

• Survivalism
• Frugal Squirrel's Survivalist Library

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Tamil Language Libraries

• Tamil Electronic Library

Technology

• National Institute of Standards and Technology

Text

• Library Text files online

Theosophy

• Theosophy
• American Theosophy Online Library
• The Pasadena Theosophy online library
• The Campbell Theosophical Research Library

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Visual storytelling

• THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK - a Digital Library
• The Visual Telling of Stories Archive

Women

• The Women's Library
• Wyoming Memory: A Digital Archive of Wyoming History

Literature by author

A

• Jane Austen - The Republic of Pemberley

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/

G

• Khalil Gibran - Gibran

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• Stephen Hawking - Professor Stephen Hawking's website
• Victor Hugo - Victor Hugo Central

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• Sarah Orne Jewett - The Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project
• Annie Fellows Johnston - Annie Fellows Johnston and The Little Colonel
• James Joyce - Joycean.org

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

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• 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

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• John Henry Cardinal Newman - Newman Reader

O

• Baroness Orczy - Blakeney Manor
• George Orwell - Political Writings of George Orwell

P

• Beatrix Potter - Kids' Corner
• Project Gutenberg

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

T

• Henry David Thoreau - The Walden Woods Project

U-Z

• Universal Library

• Walt Whitman - The Walt Whitman Archive

• Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poetry Archive
• Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship