List of digital library projects

This is a list of projects related to digital libraries.

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 Internet Archive [5]
• The Million Book Project [6] aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2005.
• Library of Congress Digital Library project [7]
• Netlibrary [8]
• Leeds University ebooks and directory [9]
• Perseus Project [10]
• Bibliotheca Universalis [11]
• ibiblio [12]
• Online Book Initiative [13]
• The Online Books Page [14] , while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
• British Library [15]
• The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center [16]
• The University of Chicago Library - ETS (Electronic Text Services)[17]
• Merlot [18]
• Project Andria [19] 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 [20] Carrie - The Stacks
• National Academies Press [21]
• Questia Online Library [22]
• eLib [23]
• Digital Librarian
• The Library Without Walls [24]
• The Rabbithole Library [25]
• The WWW Virtual Library [26]
• The Electronic Text Center - Virginia University [27]
• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [28]
• Oxford Text Archive [29]
• Planet PDF [30]
• SETIS Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service [31]
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [32]
• Online Text Library of the University of Texas [33]
• Literature online at Northwestern Edu [34]
• Biblomania [35]
• Coach House Press [36]
• Worldwide School Library [37]
• Open University Library [38]

Specific Themes (alphabetical)

A

Agriculture

• American National Agricultural Library [39]

Alchemy

• Prime Source Alchemical texts Online

Archeology

• The British Academy Portal - Archeology

Astrology

• Astrology and Metaphysical books at Khaldea [40]

Astronomy

• Library of online astronomy books
• Nasa Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library [41]

Atmospheric

• Atmospheric Visualization Collection

Audiobooks

• audiobooksforfree.com
• Telltale Weekly Free and low-cost audio texts out of copyright.

B

Biology

• Biology Library at Lund University

Biotechnology

• Biotechnology at NIST

Braille

• The Electronic Braille Book Library [42]

C

Canadian

• Early Canadiana Online - A digital library containing over 1,500,000 pages in more than 8,500 volumes.

Chemistry

• Chemistry at NIST
• Chemistry eJournals links at University of Washington[43]

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 [44]
• CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects[45]

Engineering

• Engineering at NIST[46]
• Engineering Village 2 [47]
• ENGnetBASE [48]

Early English Language Libraries

• EEBO - Early English Books Online [49]
• - An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 [50]

Environment

• American National Library for the Environment [51]
• ENVIROnetBASE

F

Fine Arts

• British Academy Portal - History of Art and Music
• Dada Library [52]
• Journals at Artsource [53]
• Mary Reynolds Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago [54]
• Michigan State University Fine Arts Library [55]

Food

• FOODnetBASE

French Language Libraries

• l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain.
• Gallica [56] - French digital library

G

Geology

• USGS U.S. Geological Survey - texts online [57]

German language Libraries

• German Gutenberg library [58]
• e-text.org [59]

Gnosticism

• The Gnostic Society Library [60]

Government and Politics

• UNESCO [61]
• American Government Document Search Tools
• The Anarchist Library [62]
• Spunk Anarchist Library [63]
• British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
• Marx and Engels Internet Archive [64]
• J. V. Stalin Internet Library [65]
• The Mondo Politico Library [66]
• BOPCRIS - the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995 [67]
• European Union documents [68]
• People in Action [69]
• thrall online library of texts [70]

Greek Language Libraries

• Textkit - provider of free and downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers

H

Health Care

• Health Care at NIST [71]

Hebrew Language Libraries

• Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.

History

• Earthstation One [72]
• On This Day [73]
• Cornell University Library Windows on the Past [74]
• Internet History Sourcebooks [75]
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies [76]
• The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [77]
• British Academy Classical Antiquity Medieval Studies: History and Literature Early Modern History to C1800 Modern History from C1800
• Historical Text Archive (HTA [78]
• The Kansas Collection - Letting the voices of the past be heard . . . ] [79]
• New England Historic Photographs Archive [80] - A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA.

Homeland Security

• Homeland Security at NIST [81]

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan [82]
• Humbul Library [83]
• British Academy PORTAL [84]
• Interlex Past masters [85]
• Voice of the Shuttle [86]

Human Rights

• Project Diana - Online Human Rights Archive [87]

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 [88]
• 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 [89]

Latin Language Libraries

• Armarium Labyrinthi: Labyrinth Latin Bookcase [90]
• The Latin Library

Law

• British Academy Portal - Law

Literature

• Bartleby Library - Great Books On-line [91]
• The Literary Gothic [92]
• 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

Specific Authors

• Jack London - The Jack London Collection
• Dante - Facsimiles of Dante Alighieri 1472-1629
• James Joyce - James Joyce
• Steven Shaviro - Steven Shaviro
• Kurt Vonnegut - Kurt Vonnegut
• George Orwell - George Orwell
• Xander Mellish - Xander Mellish
• William Shakespeare - at MIT
• Shakespeare Literature , Chapter-indexed, searchable versions of Shakespeare's works.
• Noam Chomsky [93]

Classics

• The Internet Classics Archive
• Great Books Index
• ClassicReader.com

Folklore and Legends

• Legends online

Children's Books

• Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project
• International Children's Digital Library [94]

Poetry

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

Beat Generation

• Literary Kicks [95]
• Beat Texts

Science Fiction

• Wondersmith's Free Sci-fi Classics

Women Writers

• Women Writers Online
• A Celebration of 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

• Material;s Science 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

Military

• American Joint Military Electronic Library

Mysticism

• Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati [96]

Music

• Danman's Music Library [97]

N

Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology at NIST

Nations and Peoples

Africa

• British Academy Portal - African and Oriental Studies

The Americas

• Early Canadiana Online [98] 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

Patents

• Canadian Patents Database [99]

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 [100] 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)
• Avesta -- Zoroastrian Archives
• The Nag Hammadi Library

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 [101] 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

Statistics

• STATSnetBASE

Survivalism

• Survivalism Frugal Squirrel's Survivalist Library

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 Pasadena 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
• Webring: Fan fiction

Search Journals and Magazines

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

See also

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