List of digital library projects

=General Collections=

• Wikibooks [1] is a digital library project edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
• Project Gutenberg [2], founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
• Project Gutenberg Australia [3] is an associate to PG, providing texts under Australian copyright law.
• Distributed Proofreaders is a project supporting Project Gutenberg.
• American Literature Hypertexts [4]
• The Million Book Project [5] aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2005.
• Library of Congress Digital Library project [6]
• Perseus Project [7]
• Bibliotheca Universalis [8]
• ibiblio [9]
• Online Book Initiative [10]
• The Online Books Page [11], while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
• British Library [12]
• Oaklahoma State University special collections online
• Merlot [13]
• Project Andria [14] focuses on preservation our free digital heritage on the long-term. The project was initiated by the end of 2003.
• Carrie Carrie - A Full Text Electronic Library
• Carrie - The Stacks
• National Academies Press National Academies Press
• Questia Online Library [15]
• eLib [16]
• Digital Librarian
• The Library Without Walls
• The Rabbithole Library The Rabbithole Library
• The WWW Virtual Library [17]
• The Electronic Text Center - Virginia University
• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [18]
• Oxford Text Archive [19]
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [20]
• Online Text Library of the University of Texas [21]
• Literature online at Northwestern Edu
• Biblomania [22]
• Coach House Press [23]
• Worldwide School Library [24]
• Open University Open University - Library

=Specific Themes (alphabetical)=

=A=

Agriculture

• American National Agricultural Library

Alchemy

• Prime Source Alchemical texts Online

Archeology

• The British Academy Portal - Archeology

Astrology

• Astrology and Metaphysical books at Khaldea

Astronomy

• Library of online astronomy books
• Nasa Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library

Audiobooks

• audiobooksforfree.com

=B=

Biology

• Biology Library at Lund University

Biotechnology

• Biotechnology at NIST

Braille

• The Electronic Braille Book Library

=C=

Chemistry

• Chemistry at NIST
• Chemistry eJournals links at University of Washington

Computer Science

• Computer Science at NIST
• ACM Portal

=D=

=E=

Economics

• British Academy Portal - Economics and Economic History

Education and Educational Aids

• American National Library of Education
• CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects

Engineering

• Engineering at NIST

Early English Language Libraries

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

Environment

• American National Library for the Environment

=F=

Fine Arts

• British Academy Portal - History of Art and Music
• Dada Library
• Journals at Artsource
• Mary Reynolds Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago
• Michigan State University Fine Arts Library

French Language Libraries

• l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain.
• Gallica [25] - French digital library

=G=

Geology

• U.S. Geological Survey - texts online

German language Libraries

• gutenberg.spiegel.de

Gnosticism

• The Gnostic Society Library

Government and Politics

• American Government Document Search Tools
• Clamen's Political Archives
• The Anarchist Library
• Spunk Anarchist Library
• British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
• Marx and Engels Internet Archive
• J. V. Stalin Internet Library
• The Mondo Politico Library
• BOPCRIS - the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995.
• European Union documents
• People in Action

=H=

Health Care

• Health Care at NIST

Hebrew Language Libraries

• Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.

History

• History Prime Source Document Archives
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• British Academy Portal - Classical Antiquity
• British Academy Portal - Medieval Studies: History and Literature
• British Academy Portal - Early Modern History to C1800
• British Academy Portal - Modern History from C1800
• American History Archive at Mississippi

Homeland Security

• Homeland Security at NIST

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan
• Humbul Library
• British Academy Portal
• Interlex Past masters
• Voice of the Shuttle

Human Rights

• Project Diana - Online Human Rights Archive

=I=

=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
• 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 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.

Latin Language Libraries

• Armarium Labyrinthi: Labyrinth Latin Bookcase

Law

• British Academy Portal - Law

Literature

• Bartleby Library - Great Books On-line
• The Literary Gothic
• 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
• [26]
• jough.com/ literature site - various online archives
• bookzen
• Alt-X
• Darkness - Gothic writing

Specific Authors

• The Jack London Collection
• Facsimiles of Dante Alighieri 1472-1629
• James Joyce
• Steven Shaviro
• Kurt Vonnegut
• George Orwell
• Xander Mellish

Classics

• The Internet Classics Archive
• Great Books Index

Folklore and Legends

• Legends online

Poetry

• Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive
• American Verse Project
• Electronic Poetry Center
• Spondee

Beat Generation

• Literary Kicks [27]
• Beat Texts

Science Fiction

• Wondersmith's Free Sci-fi Classics

Women Writers

• Women Writers Online

=M=

Materials Science

• Material;s Science at NIST

Mathematics

• Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
• 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

Medicine

• American National Library of Medicine
• British National Electronic Library for Health
• British National Electronic Library for Mental Health

Military

• American Joint Military Electronic Library

Mysticism

• Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati

=N=

Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology at NIST

Nations and Peoples

Africa

• British Academy Portal - African and Oriental Studies

The Americas

• Early Canadiana Online [28] holds over a million page images of early Canadian book.
• American Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (put online at Oaklahoma State University)
• Chronicles of Oaklahoma

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

• 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

Nordic Language Libraries

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

=O=

Occult

• The Hidden Gate

=P=

Philosophy

• British Academy Portal - Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant Texts
• Divine Life Society Online Books

Physics

• Physics at NIST

Polish Language Libraries

• Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [29] is gathering the digital versions of Polish language Texts.

Psychology

• British Academy Portal - 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
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library 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)

Research

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

Romanian Language Libraries

• The Romanian Digital Library

=S=

Science

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

Serbian Libraries

• Project Rastko [30] 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

=T=

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 Campbell Theosophical Research Library

=U=

=V=

Visual storytelling

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

=W=

Women

• The Women's Library

=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)
• Google Directory: Online writing
• Open Directory: online writing
• http://www.libraryspot.com/
• A site for online librarians

Search Journals and Magazines

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

See also: List of magazines

See also

• The Timeline of the Open Access Movement by Peter Suber.

Referenced By