List of digital library projects

Name	Subject(s)	Volumes	Description	Provider(s)
Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP)	Islam		Digitizes and presents resources related to history, law, and society of the Islamic religion and its personalities with particular emphasis on the Twelver Shi'ah Islamic school of thought.	Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project^[1]
Aozora Bunko	Japanese language		Digitized Japanese language texts.	Aozora Bunko^[2]
Aetminer	Computer science & Information science		A free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University	Aetminer^[3]
Arts and Humanities Data Service	Arts & Humanities		Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities. Ceased operation in 2008. Website is still active.	King's College London^[4]
ArXiv	Science		Preprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.	Coell University^[5]
L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels	French literature		Digitizes French texts in the public domain.	Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers^[6]
Ludwig von Mises Institute: Literature	Libertarianism & Economics		Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources	Ludwig von Mises Institute^[7]
Avalon Project	Legal studies & History		Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy	Yale Law School^[8]
Baen Free Library	Science Fiction & Fantasy		Science fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen Books.	Baen Books^[9]
Biodiversity Heritage Library	natural history, botany, zoology	>112,000 volumes; >40 million pages.	An open access digital library for biodiversity literature. BHL operates as a consortium of natural history and botanical institutions around the world that cooperate to digitize the natural history literature in their collections and make it openly available through their website at www.biodiversitylibrary.org^[10]	BHL Member Institutions^[11]
Bookshare	General		A library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to people with print disabilities. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books in the collection	Benetech^[12]
British History Online	History		Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and mode history of the British Isles.	Institute of Historical Research, the History of Parliament Trust, and the University of London^[13]
British Library: Online Gallery	General		The British Library's Online Gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials.	British Library^[14]
Califoia Digital Library
Carrie			An early full text electronic library
Center for Research Libraries	General		(CRL): Edward Hunter (1902–1978) collection
Chinese Text Project	Chinese classic texts		Electronic library of early Chinese texts.	Chinese Text Project^[15]
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Choral Public Domain Library
CiteSeerX	Computer science & Information science		A Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine hosted at Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University	Pennsylvania State University
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse	Civil Rights
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online	Biology
Coell University Library Windows on the Past
D-Scribe Digital Publishing	various academic		Over 100 thematic collections that together contain over 100,000 digital objects of various academic interests, including almost 800 out-of-print titles from the University of Pittsburgh Press.	University of Pittsburgh
Digital Accounting Collection	Accounting
Digital Bibliography and Library Project
Digital Comic Museum	Comic books
Digital Himalaya	Himalayas
Digital library for Dutch literature			Govement-funded digital library project.
Digital Library of Georgia	General
Digital Library of India		325,473
Digital Media Repository	Arts & Humanities, Middletown studies			Ball State University^[16]
Digital Public Library of America	General
Directory of Open Access Jouals	General
Domínio Público
EEBO - Early English Books Online
eGranary Digital Library	Educational resources from over 2,000 Web sites and hundreds of CD-ROMs.	An off-line digital library for communities with inadequate Inteet bandwidth, i.e. developing countries, rural schools, prisons.	Over 30 million resources in every format: books, jouals, Web sites, video, audio, software, multimedia... Includes tools for patrons to create, upload, share, and archive their own content. Has built-in search tools and Web 2.0 services like Moodle, WordPress and Drupal.	The WiderNet Project, a service program of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Europeana		10,000,000+ digital objects	Linking archives, libraries, museums and audio-visual material from across Europe.
The European Library	General
European NAvigator			First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe.
Gallica			French digital library
Greenpilot	Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture		A digital library focusing on Nutritional, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences. Targeting both scientific researchers and the interested public it aims to provide the user with relevant scientific literature which is both easy to access and of high quality.	German National Library of Medicine, ZB MED
Greenstone (software)	General
Google Books	General	30,000,000+
Harvard University Library digital collections	General		Links to digitized collections from the University's libraries, museums, archives and special collections, covering subjects such as art, architecture, religion, history, culture, botany, biology, landscape design, music, politics, law, and advertising. Projects involved digitizing of analog collections (including images, text, audio files, and music scores), georeferencing maps, or harvesting web resources.	Harvard University^[17]^[18]^[19]
HathiTrust	General	10,000,000+
Humanities Text Collection	Humanities			University of Michigan^[20]
Humbul			Humanities hub
Hungarian Electronic Library	Hungarian literature
Ibiblio	General
Inteational Dunhuang Project	Manuscripts		Inteational collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and other archaeological sites at the easte end of the Silk Road.	British Library and twenty other institutions
Inteational Music Score Library Project
Inteet Archive	General	3,100,000+
Inteet memory	General		Inteet Memory Foundation is a non-profit institution. It actively supports the preservation of Inteet as a new media for heritage and cultural purpose.
Inteet History Sourcebooks Project
Inteet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica)
Inteet Sacred Text Archive
JoualServer	Academic jouals		An inteational initiative to create a free digital library of academic jouals
JSTOR	General		Subscription required. Page image archive of important scholarly jouals, with searchable OCR text.
The Kurdish Digital Library	General		The Digital Library consists of writings about the Kurds and Kurdistan. Its aim is to make the Kurdish cultural heritage available as digital data. Page image archive of important scholarly jouals, with searchable OCR text.	Kurdish Institute of Paris
Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library	General
LacusCurtius	Classical studies			Ancient Rome texts and Archaeology
The Latin Library
Leaing Ally	General		A digital library serving accessible audio textbooks and general titles to people with print disabilities. Currently over 75,000 popular and educational books in the collection.	Leaing Ally^[21]
Library of Congress Digital Library project	General
Library of Economics and Liberty				Liberty Fund
Librivox	Public Domain books in the United States		An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English.
Literary Kicks
Making of America collections	General
Marefa	Arabic literature		Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script.	^[22]
Marx and Engels Inteet Archive
Marxists Inteet Archive
Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage	General
Metelwin Digital Library	General, heritage		Online digital library containing books, magazines, jouals, newspapers and manuscripts with index and searchable OCR text. Contains digitized regional heritage collections and collections of different ephemeral printed materials. All content free for use.	Metelwin Digital Library http://library.foi.hr/
Metropolitan Museum of Art	General		Over the last two years librarians and intes at the Thomas J. Watson Library have digitized over 250 early Museum Publications.	Metropolitan Museum
Michael: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe	General		A project funded by the European Commission to give access to digital collections in European archives, museums and libraries.
Michigan Digitization Project	General
Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library	General
The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library			MPDL covers material from 1900 to the present. It encompasses the diverse cultural, political and social factors influencing the practice of philanthropy as well as the significant contributions from across Muslim-majority countries to contemporary global philanthropic practice.	The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library^[23]
Mutopia project
NALANDA
National Academies Press	General	3,600+
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program	General
National Library for the Blind	General
New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery	General
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Ohio e-book Project	General		Available through multiple library systems for cardholders in the state of Ohio.
OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center	General
Online Books Page	General		Provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin	General
On This Day
Open Content Alliance	General
Open Library	General	1,000,000+
Open University Library	General		The online Library from the Open University is a gateway to a wide range of online information resources. The Library website provides access to a world-class collection of resources that enhance the leaing experience of students and support the leaing, teaching, research and personal development of members of staff.	Open University Library
Oxford Text Archive	AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Pandora Archive	General
Panjab Digital Library	General		A NGO digitizing and preserving cultural heritage of Punjab. There are many historically significant documents stored and made available online. Its scope covers Sikh and Punjabi culture. The library funded by The Nanakshahi Trust was launched online in August 2009. It is located at Chandigarh.
Perseus Project	General
Project Diana			Online Human rights library
Project Gutenberg	General	38,000+	Founded in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
Project Gutenberg Australia	General		Providing texts under Australian copyright law.
Project Laurens Janszoon Coster	Dutch literature		A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001.
Project Madurai	Tamil literature		A collection of Tamil literature.
Project Noolaham	General
Project Rastko	Serbian literature		Publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted.
Project Runeberg	Nordic literature
Project Sugita Genpaku			Translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Questia Online Library	General	75,000+
Rare Book Room	General
Readme.cc	General		Books translated into 10 languages	European Commission
Rubicon Research Repository	Environmental physiology
Runivers	Russian literature		Website devoted to Russian culture and history.
SciElo
Shia Islamic Library Archive - Multi-language	Islam		Digitizes and Archive of Islamic Literature (Largest collection of Islamic books on line) in several languages.	Shia Islamic Library Project^[24]
Sophie Project	German women's literature	1,500+	Digitizes and distributed German-speaking women's writing in the public domain.	Brigham Young University
South Asian American Digital Archive	South Asian Americans		Documents, preserves and provides access to the material history of the South Asian American community.
Texas Digital Library	General
Text Creation Partnership	General		Three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP)
TITUS - Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Language Materials database			Aims to prepare all textual material relevant for Indo-European Studies (including Middle Iranian, Tocharian etc.) in electronic form for analysis	Goethe University Frankfurt^[25]
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library	Indian literature		Repository of the traditional knowledge of India, setup to protect the ancient and traditional knowledge of the country from exploitation such as Unethical patents and monopolization
UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC)	General
United States National Agricultural Library	Agriculture
US National Library of Medicine
Universal Digital Library	General	1,500,000+	A book digitization project, led by Caegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries.^[26] Working with govement and research partners in India (Digital Library of India) and China, the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to the books on the web.
University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service	General
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections	General			University of Wisconsin–Madison^[27]
Vascoda	General		German inteet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search
Virtually Missouri	General		Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions
Welsh Jouals Online	General			National Library of Wales
Wordtheque			Word by word multilingual library
World Wide Web Virtual Library	General
Wikibooks	General		A digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
Wikisource		3,500,000+	A digital library of out of copyright books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
Wired for Books			A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University.
Wisconsin Heritage Online			A collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history.
Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection	History		Wisconsin state, regional, and local history books, jouals, and museum collections	Wisconsin Historical Society^[28]
World Digital Library	General			Library of Congress
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