| Name |
Subject(s) |
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] |
| 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[3] |
| ArXiv |
Science |
Preprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. |
Cornell University[4] |
| l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels |
French language |
Digitizes French texts in the public domain. |
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers[5] |
| Ludwig von Mises Institute: Literature |
Libertarianism & Economics |
Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources |
Ludwig von Mises Institute[6] |
| Avalon Project |
Legal studies & History |
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy |
Yale Law School[7] |
| Baen Free Library |
Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Science fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen Books. |
Baen Books[8] |
| 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[9] |
| British History Online |
History |
Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. |
Institute of Historical Research, the History of Parliament Trust, and the University of London[10] |
| British Library: Online Gallery |
General |
The British Library's Online Gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials. |
British Library[11] |
| California Digital Library |
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| Carrie |
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An early full text electronic library |
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| Center for Research Libraries |
General |
(CRL): Edward Hunter (1902-1978) collection |
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| Christian Classics Ethereal Library |
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| Choral Public Domain Library |
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| CiteSeerX |
Computer science & Information science |
A Scientific Literature Digital Library hosted at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University |
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| Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse |
Civil Rights |
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| The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies |
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| The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online |
Biology |
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| Cornell University Library Windows on the Past |
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| DELOS |
General |
European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries |
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| Digital Accounting Collection |
Accounting |
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| Digital Bibliography and Library Project |
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| Digital Himalaya |
Himalayas |
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| Digital library for Dutch literature |
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Government-funded digital library project. |
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| Digital Library of Georgia |
General |
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| Digital Library of India |
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| Directory of Open Access Journals |
General |
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| Domínio Público |
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| EEBO - Early English Books Online |
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| Elib.at - Austrian Online Text-Repository |
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Elib.at digitizes sourcetexts in the Humanities |
University of Innsbruck, Austria / Literature.at |
| EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History |
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| Europeana |
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French contribution to the European Digital Library |
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| The European Library |
General |
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| European NAvigator |
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First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe. |
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| EUscreen |
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EUscreen provides free online access to Europe's television heritage |
EUscreen[12] |
| Gallica |
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French digital library |
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| Greenstone (software) |
General |
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| Google Book Search |
General |
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| HathiTrust |
General |
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| Higher intellect project |
General |
250,000+ texts on a variety of subjects |
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| Humanities Text Collection |
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University of Michigan[13] |
| Humbul |
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humanities hub |
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| Hungarian Electronic Library |
Hungary |
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| ibiblio |
General |
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| Indiana University Digital Library Program |
General |
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| International Music Score Library Project |
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| Internet Archive |
General |
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| Internet History Sourcebooks Project |
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| Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) |
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| Internet Sacred Text Archive |
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| JournalServer |
General |
An international initiative to create a free digital library of academic journals |
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| JSTOR |
General |
Subscription required. Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text. |
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| Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library |
General |
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| LacusCurtius |
Classical studies |
Ancient Rome texts and Archaeology |
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| The Latin Library |
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| Library of Congress Digital Library project |
General |
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| Library of Economics and Liberty |
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Liberty Fund |
| Literary Kicks |
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| Making of America collections |
General |
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| Marefa |
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Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script. |
[14] |
| Marx and Engels Internet Archive |
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| Marxists Internet Archive |
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| Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage |
General |
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| Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project |
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Includes CSLI publications |
Stanford[15] |
| 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. |
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| Michigan Digitization Project |
General |
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| Million Book Project |
General |
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| Musopen |
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| Mutopia project |
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| NALANDA |
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| National Academies Press |
General |
More than 3600 books freely available in open access formats |
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| National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program |
General |
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| National Library for the Blind |
General |
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| New England Historic Photographs Archive |
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A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA. |
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| New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery |
General |
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| New Zealand Electronic Text Centre |
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| OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center |
General |
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| Online Books Page |
General |
Provides an extensive list of digital book available online. |
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| Online Library of Liberty |
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Liberty Fund [16] |
| Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin |
General |
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| On This Day |
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| Open Content Alliance |
General |
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| Open Library |
General |
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| Open University Library |
General |
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| Oxford Text Archive |
General |
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| Pandora Archive |
General |
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| Papyrus European research project |
General |
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| Perseus Project |
General |
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| Project Ben-Yehuda |
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Digitizes Hebrew classics. |
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| Project Diana |
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Online Human rights library |
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| Project Gutenberg |
General |
Founded in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts. |
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| Project Gutenberg Australia |
General |
Providing texts under Australian copyright law. |
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| Project Laurens Janszoon Coster |
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A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001. |
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| Project Noolaham |
General |
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| Project Rastko |
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publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted. |
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| Project Runeberg |
Nordic language texts |
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| Project Sugita Genpaku |
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Translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed. |
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| Projekt Gutenberg-DE |
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| Questia Online Library |
General |
|
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| Rare Book Room |
General |
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| Rubicon Research Repository |
environmental physiology |
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| SciElo |
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| Sophie |
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| Texas Digital Library |
General |
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| Text Creation Partnership |
General |
Three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP) |
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| TIDES (Teaching, Images & Digital Experiences) |
General |
Specializes in historic and cultural resources from East Texas, including documents, maps and photographs. |
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| Traditional Knowledge Digital Library |
India |
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 |
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| UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) |
General |
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| United StatesGovernment Document Search Tools |
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| United States National Agricultural Library |
Agriculture |
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| US National Library of Medicine |
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| Universal Digital Library |
General |
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| University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service |
General |
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| University of Wisconsin Digital Collections |
General |
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| TDG Scholar |
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[17] |
| TITUS database - Thesaurus of Indo-European Texts and Language Materials database |
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Aims to prepare all textual material relevant for Indo-European Studies (including Middle Iranian, Tocharian etc.) in electronic form for analysis |
Goethe University Frankfurt[18] |
| vascoda |
General |
German internet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search |
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| Vidyanidhi Digital Library |
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University of Mysore, India |
| Virtually Missouri |
General |
Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions |
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| Welsh Journals Online |
General |
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National Library of Wales |
| Wordtheque |
|
Word by word multilingual library |
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| World Wide Web Virtual Library |
General |
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| Wikibooks |
General |
A digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia. |
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| Wikisource |
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A digital library of out of copyright books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia. |
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| Wired for Books |
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A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University. |
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| Wisconsin Heritage Online |
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A collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history. |
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| World Digital Library |
General |
|
Library of Congress |
| zeno.org |
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