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 Million Book Project [5] aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2005.
- Library of Congress Digital Library project [6]
- Perseus Project [7]
- Bibliotheca Universalis [8]
- ibiblio [9]
- Online Book Initiative [10]
- The Online Books Page [11], while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
- British Library [12]
- The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center [13]
- The University of Chicago Library - ETS (Electronic Text Services)[14]
- Merlot [15]
- Project Andria [16] 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
- Carrie - The Stacks
- National Academies Press National Academies Press
- Questia Online Library [17]
- eLib [18]
- Digital Librarian
- The Library Without Walls
- The Rabbithole Library The Rabbithole Library
- The WWW Virtual Library [19]
- The Electronic Text Center - Virginia University
- Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [20]
- Oxford Text Archive [21]
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [22]
- Online Text Library of the University of Texas [23]
- Literature online at Northwestern Edu
- Biblomania [24]
- Coach House Press [25]
- Worldwide School Library [26]
- Open University Open University - Library
Specific Themes (alphabetical)
A
Agriculture
Alchemy
Archeology
Astrology
Astronomy
Audiobooks
B
Biology
Biotechnology
Braille
C
Chemistry
Computer Science
D
E
Economics
Education and Educational Aids
Engineering
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
F
Fine 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
French Language Libraries
- l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels digitizes French texts in the public domain.
- Gallica [27] - French digital library
G
Geology
German language Libraries
Gnosticism
Government and Politics
- American Government Document Search Tools
- Clamen's Political Archives
- The Anarchist Library
- Spunk Anarchist Library
- British Academy Portal - Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
- 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
H
Health Care
Hebrew Language Libraries
- Project Ben-Yehuda digitizes Hebrew classics.
History
- Internet History Sourcebooks [28]
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies [29]
- The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy [30]
- British Academy Portal - Classical Antiquity
- British Academy Portal - Medieval Studies: History and Literature
- British Academy Portal - Early Modern History to C1800
- British Academy Portal - Modern History from C1800
- American History Archive at Mississippi
- The Kansas Collection The Kansas Collection - Letting the voices of the past be heard . . .
Homeland Security
Humanities and Social Sciences
- Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan
- Humbul Library
- British Academy Portal
- Interlex Past masters
- Voice of the Shuttle
Human Rights
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
- 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.
Latin Language Libraries
Law
Literature
- Bartleby Library - Great Books On-line
- The Literary Gothic
- 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
- [31]
- jough.com/ literature site - various online archives
- bookzen
- Alt-X
- Darkness - Gothic writing
Specific Authors
- The Jack London Collection
- Facsimiles of Dante Alighieri 1472-1629
- James Joyce
- Steven Shaviro
- Kurt Vonnegut
- George Orwell
- Xander Mellish
Classics
Folklore and Legends
Poetry
Beat Generation
Science Fiction
Women Writers
M
Materials Science
Mathematics
- Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
- 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
Medicine
- American National Library of Medicine
- British National Electronic Library for Health
- British National Electronic Library for Mental Health
Military
Mysticism
N
Nanotechnology
Nations and Peoples
Africa
The Americas
- Early Canadiana Online [33] 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
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
P
Philosophy
Physics
Polish Language Libraries
- Polska Biblioteka Internetowa - Polish Internet Library [34] is gathering the digital versions of Polish language Texts.
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
Romanian Language Libraries
S
Science
- National Science Digital Library
- Scientific Electronic Library Online
- Public Library of Science
- Science Direct
Serbian Libraries
- Project Rastko [35] publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domain and copyrighted.
Space
Social Anthropology and Geography
Sociology, Demography and Social Studies
Sports
Survivalism
T
Tamil Language Libraries
Technology
Text
Theosophy
U
V
Visual storytelling
W
Women
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
Search Journals and Magazines
See also: List of magazines