List of digital library projects

This is a list of digital library projects.

NameSubject(s)VolumesDescriptionProvider(s)Ref.
Access to InsightTheravada BuddhismProvides translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest TraditionBarre Center for Buddhist Studies[1]
Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP)Shia IslamDigitizes 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 thoughtAhlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project[2]
Aozora BunkoJapanese languageDigitized Japanese language textsAozora Bunko[3]
ArnetminerComputer science and information scienceA free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua UniversityArnetminer[4]
Arts and Humanities Data ServiceArts and humanitiesImages, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities. Ceased operation in 2008.King's College London[5]
ArXivSciencePreprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statisticsCornell University[6]
French: L'Association des Bibliophiles UniverselsFrench literatureDigitizes French texts in the public domainConservatoire National des Arts et Métiers[7]
Atoll Digital LibraryGeneralOpen source software for building digital library collectionsAtoll Digital Library
Australian Islamic LibraryTafsir, hadith, fiqh, Usool and Islamic Scholarship – Sunni School of thoughtHosts over 35 classical and contemporary exegeses of the Quran, all major books of hadith, a large number of books on biographies of early Muslims and many other related titles. The library serves an international audience and offers books in numerous international languages.Australian Islamic Library
Avalon ProjectLegal studies and historyDocuments in law, history and diplomacyYale Law School[8]
Baen Free LibraryScience fiction and fantasyScience fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen BooksBaen Books[9]
Bartleby.comLiterature, reference and verseLiterature, reference and verseBartleby.com[10]
Biblioteca Digital HispánicaGeneralLiterature, pictures, records, memorabilia
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)natural history, botany, zoology112,000+ volumes; 40+ million pagesAn 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.[11]BHL Member Institutions[12]
BIVALDI - Valencian Digital LibraryGeneral1.2+ million digital objectsA wide variety of heritage digital collectionsValencian Library
BookshareGeneral42,000+A library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to people with print disabilities. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books are in the collection.Benetech[13]
British Columbia Digital LibraryGeneralA digital library that links many academic digital library collections around British ColumbiaBritish Columbia Electronic Library Network[14][15]
British History OnlineHistoryCore printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British IslesInstitute of Historical Research, the History of Parliament Trust, and the University of London[16]
British Library Online GalleryGeneralThe British Library's online gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials.British Library[17]
California Digital Library
Canadiana OnlineHistory of Canada60,000,000+ pagesCanadian historical primary sources, including books, newspapers, periodicals, and nationally significant archival materialCanadiana.org
CarrieAn early full text electronic library
Catálogo de libros de texto de educación básica en México ciclo escolar 2016–2017Textbooks used in Mexico891Textbooks used in Mexico in preschool, primary, secondary and high school education in 2016–2017Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos[18]
Catálogo Histórico de libros de primaria en México 1960–2013Historic textbooks used in Mexico 1960–2013354Historic textbooks used in Mexico in primary education from 1960 to 2013Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos[19]
Center for Research LibrariesGeneral(CRL): Edward Hunter (1902–1978) collection
Center for the Study of New Testament ManuscriptsNew Testament ManuscriptsPreserve and study New Testament manuscriptscsntm.org[20]
CERN Document ServerScienceElectronic library for CERN related documentsCERN[21]
Chinese Text ProjectChinese classic textsElectronic library of early Chinese textsChinese Text Project[22]
Choral Public Domain Library
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Catholic, and Protestant scholarship1,393 volumes, 440 authorsDigital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education, including some Greek and Roman classics. CCEL texts are stored in the library's own Theological Markup Language, which is an XML application. Texts are converted into other formats as well, such as HTML or PDF.
CiteSeerXComputer science and information scienceA scientific literature digital library and search engine hosted at Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State UniversityPennsylvania State University
Civil Rights Litigation ClearinghouseCivil rights
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin OnlineBiology
Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
The Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeAssyriology, history, archaeology320,000+Safekeeping and curating information about and images of over 320,000 objects inscribed with cuneiform textUniversity of California, Los Angeles
D-Scribe Digital Publishingvarious academic100,000+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 PressUniversity of Pittsburgh
Darakht-e Danesh Library (DDL)GeneralLibrary of open educational resources for AfghanistanCanadian Women for Women in Afghanistan[23]
The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital LibraryDead Sea ScrollsDigitized Dead Sea ScrollsLeon Levy Foundation via the Israel Antiquities Authority[24]
Digital Accounting CollectionAccounting
Digital Bibliography and Library Project
Digital CicognaraEarly literature of art, Leopoldo CicognaraDigitized books from the Cicognara LibraryDigital Cicognara Partners[25]
Digital Comic MuseumComic booksThousands of freely downloadable public domain Golden Age comics which are not under copyrightDigital Comic Museum website
Digital HimalayaHimalayas
Digital Library for Dutch literatureGovernment-funded digital library project
Digital Library of the CaribbeanCaribbean studieshttps://www.dloc.com/
Digital Library of GeorgiaGeneral
Digital Library of India325,473
Digital Media RepositoryArts and humanities, Middletown studiesBall State University[26]
Digital Public Library of AmericaGeneral49,602,373
Digital South Asia LibrarySouth AsiaMaterials for reference and research on South AsiaUniversity of Chicago[27]
Directory of Open Access JournalsGeneral
DiscusSouth Carolina, United StatesProvides several reliable sources exclusively for school and state libraries in South CarolinaSouth Carolina State Library
Distributed Proofreaders CanadaToronto, Ontario, Canada3,000 books (approximate)Volunteer initiative to convert books in the Canadian public domain to readable electronic formats
Domínio Público
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian LiteratureSumeriology, history, archaeologyMaking accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BCUniversity of Oxford
EBBA (English Broadside Ballad Archive)English literature, English broadside balladsOver 7,000 ballads from libraries worldwide archivedOnline digital archive of primarily 17th century English broadside ballads, digitized into multiple accessible formats for scholars and members of the general publicEnglish Broadside Ballad Archive and University of California, Santa Barbara[28]
eBooks@AdelaideClassic works including literature, philosophy, science, religion and history[29]A collection of free ebook editions of significant works from the pastUniversity of Adelaide
EEBO – Early English Books Online
eGranary Digital LibraryEducational resources from over 3,000 websites and hundreds of CD-ROMs35,000,000+ resourcesAn offline digital library for communities with inadequate Internet bandwidth, i.e., developing countries, rural schools, prisons. Over 35 million resources in every format: books, journals, websites, 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 Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European HistoryEuropean history for over 50 countriesFacsimiles, transcriptions and translations of primary European historical documentsBrigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library
The European LibraryGeneralActive until 2016, then merged into Europeana
European NavigatorFirst digital library on the history of a united Europe
Europeana10,000,000+ digital objectsLinking archives, libraries, museums and audio-visual material from across Europe
FRASEREconomicsA digital library of economic, financial and banking materials covering the economic history of the United StatesFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis[30]
GallicaFrench digital library
Google BooksGeneral30,000,000+
Greenstone (software)General
Harvard University Library digital collectionsGeneralLinks 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[31][32][33]
HathiTrustGeneral10,000,000+
Heidelberg University Digital LibraryGeneralScientific publications, European historic literature of German and Latin languagesHeidelberg University
HumanitiesUniversity of Michigan[34]
HumbulHumanities hub
Hungarian Electronic LibraryHungarian literature
IbiblioGeneral
INSPIRE-HEPHigh energy physicsScientific documents in the field of high energy physicsCERN[35]
International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult PeriodicalsSpiritualist and occult documents and literature6,700+ texts"The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals."[36]
International Dunhuang ProjectManuscriptsInternational collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and other archaeological sites at the eastern end of the Silk RoadBritish Library and twenty other institutions
International Music Score Library Project
International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Digital Library (now part of CSS Resources)International relations, securityOpen-source digital library service for material related to international relations (IR) and security. Available content includes PDF-documents (journal articles, books, papers, reports), a directory of IR- and security-centered organizations, and multimedia material (podcasts, videos).Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich
Internet ArchiveGeneral3,100,000+
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica)
Internet memoryGeneralInternet Memory Foundation was a non-profit institution. It actively supported the preservation of Internet as a new media for heritage and cultural purpose. Defunct in 2018.
Internet Sacred Text ArchiveReligion1,700+Archive of public domain texts from spiritual or religious customs and traditions
JamJar StorySocial researchA UK based digital video library containing hundreds of snapshots of daily life across the UKJamJar Story[37]
JSTORGeneralSubscription required. Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital LibraryGeneral
The Kurdish Digital LibraryGeneralThe 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 journals, with searchable OCR text.Kurdish Institute of Paris
LacusCurtiusClassical studiesAncient Roman texts and archaeology
The Latin Library
Law Library of CongressSources of law413,273Collection of statutes and other sources of law from all over the world, with English summaries.Library of Congress
Learning AllyGeneralA 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.Learning Ally[38]
Library of Economics and LibertyLiberty Fund
LibrivoxPublic domain books in the United StatesAn online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English.
Literary Kicks
Ludwig von Mises Institute: LiteratureLibertarianism and economicsLibertarian and Austrian School economics resourcesLudwig von Mises Institute[39]
Luna Digital Image CollectionArts and Humanities80,000+Repository of images from the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection, including content related to William Shakespeare, the early modern period, and performance historyFolger Shakespeare Library
Making of America collectionsGeneral
MarefaArabic literatureDigitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic scriptMarefa
Marxists Internet ArchiveA multilingual digital library of works by Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers
Maryland Digital Cultural HeritageGeneral
Memoriademadrid Digital LibraryGeneralA Spanish digital library that provides access to the cultural heritage of the city of Madrid. Memoriademadrid digitizes heritage collections from the archives, libraries and museums belonging to the Local Government of Madrid.Biblioteca Digital memoriademadrid
Metelwin Digital LibraryGeneral, heritageOnline digital library containing books, magazines, journals, 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
Metropolitan Museum of ArtGeneralLibrarians and interns at the Thomas J. Watson Library have digitized over 250 early museum publications.Metropolitan Museum of Art
Michael: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in EuropeGeneralA project funded by the European Commission to give access to digital collections in European archives, museums and libraries
Michigan Digitization ProjectGeneral
Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph (MAKG)ScienceThe Microsoft Academic Graph (MAKG) is a large RDF data set with over eight billion triples with information about scientific publications and related entities, such as authors, institutions, journals, and fields of study. The data set is licensed under the Open Data Attributions license.University of Freiburg (original files: Microsoft Academic)[40][41]
Miguel de Cervantes Virtual LibraryGeneral
The Muslim Philanthropy Digital LibraryMPDL 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[42]
Mutopia project
NALANDA
NashriyahGeneral20th century periodicals in PersianUniversity of Manchester Library[43]
National Academies PressGeneral3,600+
National Diet Library Digital CollectionsJapanese languageDigitized Japanese language textsNational Diet Library
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation ProgramGeneral
National Digital Library ProgramGeneral
National electronic libraryGeneral1,671,878+Books, newspapers and magazines in Russian libraries
National Library for the BlindGeneral
Neliti[44]General50,000+Collection of Indonesian books, reports and academic journalsNational Library of Indonesia
New AdventCatholic595Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, papal encyclicals, and similar documents. All documents are in English except the Bible.Kevin Knight
New York Public Library NYPL Digital GalleryGeneral
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Ohio e-book ProjectGeneralAvailable through multiple library systems for cardholders in the state of Ohio
On This Day
Online Books PageGeneralProvides an extensive list of digital book available online
Online Text Library of the University of Texas at AustinGeneral
Open Access Digital Theological LibraryReligious Studies190,000+Includes fully open access religious studies content with a stable URL that is cataloged in World Cat.Digital Theological Library[45]
Open Content AllianceGeneral
Open LibraryGeneral1,000,000+
Open University LibraryGeneralThe 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 learning experience of students and support the learning, teaching, research and personal development of members of staff.Open University Library
OSU Library Electronic Publishing CenterGeneral
Oxford Text ArchiveAHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
PAIL Solicitors Digital Media and Entertainment Resource LibraryDigital media and entertainmentAn index divided into two main categories, digital media, technology and entertainment; and website and mobile apps projects, consisting of seven subcategories. The site includes more than 100 articles and comments related to law, society and policy.PAIL Solicitors Resource Library
Pandora ArchiveGeneral
Panjab Digital LibraryPanjabi Literature65,000,000+ pages from over 700,000 documentsA NGO digitizing and preserving cultural heritage of Punjab. There are many historically significant documents stored and made available online at www.PanjabDigiLib.org. Its scope covers Punjabi culture. The library funded by the Nanakshahi Trust was launched online in August 2009. It is located at Chandigarh.[46][47]
PaperityGeneral1,500,000+ articles from 4,200+ journalsAn aggregator of open access scholarly journals. Contains full-text articles from all academic disciplines, from different countries and languages. Provides multifaceted full-text search, browse by journal, RSS feeds, mobile application to access the literature.Paperity
Perseus ProjectGeneral
Project DianaOnline human rights library; division of the Avalon ProjectYale Law School[48]
Project GutenbergGeneral65,400+Founded in 1971, this was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
Project Gutenberg AustraliaGeneralProviding texts under Australian copyright law
Project Gutenberg CanadaGeneralProvides texts under Canadian copyright law
Project Laurens Janszoon CosterDutch literatureA collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001
Project MaduraiTamil literatureA collection of Tamil literature
Project NoolahamGeneral
Project RastkoSerbian literaturePublishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in the public domain and copyrighted
Project TranslatioGeneral19th and 20th century periodicals in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman TurkishUniversity of Bonn[49]
Project RunebergNordic literature
Project Sugita GenpakuTranslating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.
Projekt-Gutenberg-DE[50]Free literature in German languageTexts (usually one chapter per HTML page) are free for private use but the site claims the rights for commercial distribution.
Questia Online LibraryGeneralDefunct; shut down in January 2021
Rare Book RoomGeneral
Readme.ccGeneralBooks translated into 10 languagesEuropean Commission
Rubicon Research RepositoryEnvironmental physiology
RuniversRussian literatureWebsite devoted to Russian culture and history
Russian National Electronic Children Library[51]Russian children's literature
Russian State Historic Public Library[52]Russian literature
Russian State LibraryRussian literature, art, foreign countries' books
Sardegna Digital LibrarySardinian cultureMultimedia materials designed to represent SardiniaTaulara Srl - document service provider
SciElo
ScriptoriumSwiss newspapers2,500,000+ pagesDigitized and full text searchable Swiss newspapers published in canton of Vaud in the last 250 yearsUniversity of Lausanne
SefariaJewish religious textsFree-content digital library of Jewish texts
Shia Islamic Library Archive – multi-languageIslamDigitizes and archive of Islamic Literature (largest collection of Islamic books online) in several languagesShia Islamic Library Project
Sophie ProjectGerman women's literature1,500+Digitizes and distributed German-speaking women's writing in the public domainBrigham Young University
South Asian American Digital ArchiveSouth Asian AmericansDocuments, preserves and provides access to the material history of the South Asian American community
Standard EbooksGeneralStandard Ebooks project Public Domain
Swiss Foundation Public DomainPublic domain music50,000+ gramophone records and phonograph cylindersA project for the conservation and utilization of public domain music and film materialSwiss Foundation Public Domain
Texas Digital LibraryGeneral
Text Creation PartnershipGeneralThree collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP)
Textos.info[53] - biblioteca digital abiertaSpanish literature2,000+Open virtual library for public domain and Creative Common books written in Spanish. All content can be read online or downloaded in major ebook formats (PDF, ePUB, MobiPocket) for free. Registered users can add new texts.Eduardo Robsy Petrus
TITUS - Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Language Materials databaseAims to prepare all textual material relevant for Indo-European Studies (including Middle Iranian, Tocharian etc.) in electronic form for analysisGoethe University Frankfurt[54]
Traditional Knowledge Digital LibraryIndian literatureRepository 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 ArchiveGeneralThe UK Web Archive is a partnership of the six UK legal deposit libraries which aims to collect all UK websites at least once each year.Bodleian Libraries, British Library, Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, Trinity College Dublin[55]
United States National Agricultural LibraryAgriculture
Universal Digital LibraryGeneral1,500,000+A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries.[56] Working with government 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. Ended in 2008
University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production ServiceGeneral
University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center[57]
  • Univ. of Pittsburgh Archives
  • 20th Century Urban Renewal
  • Business & Industry
  • Ethnic Groups in Pittsburgh
  • Labor & Politics
  • Social Action & Women's History
  • Audio-visual materials
University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsGeneralUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison[58]
US National Library of Medicine
Varna Digital Library, Варненска дигитална библиотекаGeneralA project for digitization of periodicals, postcards and photos related to Varna from the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries
VascodaGeneralGerman internet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search
Victoria University in the University of TorontoGeneralDigital collections from the university's library, archives and special collections.[59] Areas of strength: William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, E. J. Pratt, John Wesley, Virginia Woolf / Bloomsbury Group.Victoria University in the University of Toronto[60]
Vilnius University Library Digital Collections[61]General8,000Digital collections from Vilnius University Library's special archives: rare books, manuscripts, graphic art and photography collections dedicated for studies, research and cultural educationVilnius University Library
Virtually MissouriGeneralDigital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions
Welsh Journals OnlineGeneralNational Library of Wales
Wellcome CollectionHealth and the human experience45,000,000 images from 280,000 itemsLarge and growing digitised collection covering an array of topics relating to health and the human experience in many forms, from recently published books to historical manuscripts and objects.Wellcome Collection[62]
WikibooksGeneralA digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia
WikilalaHistory of Ottoman EmpireDigital library project[63]
WikisourceGeneral3,500,000+A digital library of out-of-copyright or freely licensed books
Wired for BooksA project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University
Wisconsin Heritage OnlineA collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history
Wisconsin Historical Society Digital CollectionHistoryWisconsin state, regional, and local history books, journals, and museum collectionsWisconsin Historical Society[64]
WordthequeWord by word multilingual library
World Digital LibraryGeneralLibrary of Congress
World Wide Web Virtual LibraryGeneral
ZendyMultidisciplinaryUnknown (282,165,495 [65])Focus on open access academic journals, articles, books, and book chaptersKnowledge E, Zendy[66]
Zeno.org

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