List of digital library projects

This is a list of projects related to digital libraries.

General Collections

 * Azerbaijan National Electronic Library Network
 * Access My Library
 * Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
 * Arts and Humanities Data Service - Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities
 * American Literature Hypertexts
 * ASERL Directory of Digital Library Projects (Click on "Digitization Directory" from menu.)
 * Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
 * Bibliotheca Universalis
 * Biblomania
 * Bibliovault - a growing collection of older, recently published, and new books from participating scholarly presses.
 * Bookyards Library To The World
 * British Library
 * Carrie is a full text electronic library
 * Coach House Press
 * DigBib.Org - a big collection of freely available literature in the German language
 * Digital Librarian
 * Distributed Proofreaders is a project supporting Project Gutenberg.
 * The Electronic Text Center at Virginia University
 * Foundation for Culture and Tradition of Boka Kotorska "Project Rastko-Boka"
 * Foundation Rastko-Boka News
 * eLib
 * eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory
 * Google Book Search
 * ibiblio
 * The Internet Archive
 * 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
 * JSTOR - page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
 * Leeds University ebooks and directory
 * The Library Without Walls
 * Library of Congress Digital Library project
 * Literatures in English at Northwestern University
 * Making of America collections
 * Merlot
 * The Million Book Project aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2007.
 * National Academies Press
 * National Library for the Blind
 * Netlibrary
 * The New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery
 * New Zealand Digital Library Research project hosting several historical, humanitarian and development information digital collections.
 * The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center
 * The Online Archive of California
 * Online Book Initiative
 * The Online Books Page, 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
 * Open Content Alliance
 * Open University Library
 * Oxford Text Archive
 * Pandora Archive
 * Peeters Online Journals a digital library that covers more than 50 journals in fulltext.
 * Peeters Online Bibliographies digital bibliographies making use of crossreferencing and library catalogues.
 * Perseus Project
 * Planet PDF
 * Project Andria focuses on preservation our free digital heritage on the long-term. The project was initiated by the end of 2003.
 * Project Gutenberg Australia is an associate to PG, providing texts under Australian copyright law.
 * Project Gutenberg, founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
 * Questia Online Library
 * The Rabbithole Library - contains many books that were at some time banned
 * Read Print
 * Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service
 * Scientific Electronic Library (SciElo)
 * UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC)
 * The University of California Digital Collections
 * The University of Chicago Library Electronic Text Services
 * The World Wide Web Virtual Library
 * Wikibooks is a digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
 * Wikisource is 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.
 * World Digital Library, by the Library of Congress
 * Worldwide School Library

Agriculture

 * American National Agricultural Library

Alchemy

 * The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library

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

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

Biology

 * Biology Library at Lund University

Biotechnology

 * Biotechnology at NIST

Braille

 * The Electronic Braille Book Library

Brazilian Language Libraries

 * Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante de Língua Portuguesa digitizes Portuguese texts in the public domain.

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

Computer Science

 * Computer Science at NIST
 * ACM Portal
 * CiteSeer : The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
 * DBLP
 * HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources
 * The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
 * Computer Science Database FIZ Karlsruhe
 * Daffodil (software)

Dutch Language Libraries

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

Economics

 * British Academy Portal - Economics and Economic History

Education and Educational Aids

 * American National Library of Education
 * CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects
 * DLESE: Digital Library for Earth System Education

Engineering

 * Engineering at NIST
 * Engineering Village 2
 * ENGnetBASE
 * NALANDANetwork of Automated Library AND Archives.

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
 * ENVIROnetBASE

Fine Arts

 * AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Visual 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

Folklore and Legends

 * Legends

Food

 * FOODnetBASE

Forced Migration

 * Forced Migration Online

French Language Libraries

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

Geology

 * USGS U.S. Geological Survey - texts online

German language Libraries

 * University Library at Brunswick, Lower Saxony
 * e-text.org
 * University of Göttingen
 * Austrian literature online
 * Projekt Gutenberg-DE

Germanic language Libraries

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

Gnosticism

 * The Gnostic Society Library

Government and Politics

 * UNESCO
 * American Government Document Search Tools
 * The Anarchist Library
 * Spunk Anarchist Library
 * The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
 * British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
 * Marxists Internet Archive
 * 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
 * thrall online library of texts

Greek Language Libraries

 * Project Libellus
 * Perseus Project
 * Textkit - provider of free and downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers

Health Care

 * Health Care at NIST

Hebrew Language Libraries

 * Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.

History

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

Homeland Security

 * Homeland Security at NIST

Humanities and Social Sciences

 * Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan
 * Humbul Humanities Hub
 * British Academy PORTAL
 * Interlex Past masters
 * Voice of the Shuttle

Human Rights

 * Project Diana - Online Human Rights Archive

Hungarian language libraries

 * Hungarian Electronic Library
 * Electronic Periodical Archives and Database

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

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

 * Kabbalah Digital Library- one of the largest multi-language collections of ancient and modern Kabbalistic writings, comprising articles, books and interviews in text and multimedia formats

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 (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
 * Internet History Sourcebooks Project
 * The Latin Library
 * The Latin Literature at Forum Romanum
 * Montclair Electronic Text Archive
 * Perseus Project
 * Project Libellus

Law

 * The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
 * British Academy Portal - Law

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
 * 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

A

 * Jane Austen - The Republic of Pemberley

B

 * William Blake - The William Blake Archive
 * The Brontës - The Bront&euml; 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

H

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

J

 * 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

M

 * 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 University

N

 * 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

 * Universal Library

W

 * Walt Whitman - The Walt Whitman Archive

Y

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

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

Music

 * Choral Public Domain Library
 * Danman's Music Library
 * Musopen
 * Mutopia project
 * University of North Texas Music Library's Virtual Rare Book Room

Nanotechnology

 * Nanotechnology at NIST

Africa

 * British Academy Portal - African and Oriental Studies

The Americas

 * Early Canadiana Online 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)

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.

Occult

 * The Hidden Gate

Patents

 * Canadian Patents Database

Philosophy

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

Physics

 * Physics at NIST

Polish Language Libraries

 * Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library is gathering the digital versions of Polish language Texts.

Psychology

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

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 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

Research

 * Los Alamos Research Library
 * Oxford Reference
 * Virtual Reference Library

Romanian Language Libraries

 * The Romanian Digital Library

Science

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

Serbian Libraries

 * Project Rastko 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

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

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

Searches and Meta-Indices

 * Library Search Engines
 * refdesk.com/ list of Electronic Texts on the Internet
 * Online Texts Search (2) (Metacrawler)
 * Open Directory Project: Online Writing
 * eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory
 * http://www.libraryspot.com/
 * A site for online librarians
 * Webring: Fan fiction

Search Journals and Magazines

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