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Internet Archive
A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
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Google Books
Search the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books.
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Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
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Project Gutenberg
Founded in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
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HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
Over 16 500 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
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Digital Public Library of America
Discover images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
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World Digital Library
A project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.
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Europeana
Linking archives, libraries, museums and audio-visual material from across Europe.
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Science
ArXiv
Preprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
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JSTOR
Subscription required. Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
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Science
SciElo
A multidisciplinary repository for deposition, preservation and dissemination of research data from articles submitted and approved for publication, already published in SciELO Network journals or deposited in SciELO Preprints.
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National Academies Press
Publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science and health policy.
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Medicine
US National Library of Medicine
Literature, sequence, and clinical studies information.
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Indian literature
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
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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South Asia
Digital South Asia Library
Materials for reference and research on South Asia.
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Tamil literature
Project Madurai
A collection of Tamil literature.
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natural history, botany, zoology
Biodiversity Heritage Library
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.
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Harvard University Library digital collections
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.
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California Digital Library
Partners with campuses to bring the treasures of our libraries, museums, and cultural heritage organizations to the world.
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Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
Cornell University Library promotes a culture of broad inquiry and supports the University’s mission to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and creative expression.
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AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Oxford Text Archive
A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources. Thousands of texts in more than 25 languages.
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Online Books Page
Provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
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Theravada Buddhism
Access to Insight
Provides translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition.
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Shia Islam
Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP)
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.
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Japanese language
Aozora Bunko
Digitized Japanese language texts.
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Computer science and information science
Arnetminer
A free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University.
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Legal studies and history
Avalon Project
Documents in law, history and diplomacy.
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Science fiction and fantasy
Baen Free Library
Science fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen Books.
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Literature, reference and verse
Bartleby.com
Literature, reference and verse.
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Bookshare
A library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to people with print disabilities. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books in the collection.
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History
British History Online
Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
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History of Canada
Canadiana Online
Canadian historical primary sources, including books, newspapers, periodicals, and nationally significant archival material.
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History
Carrie
An early full text electronic library.
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Center for Research Libraries
Edward Hunter (1902-1978) collection.
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New Testament Manuscripts
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
Preserve and study New Testament manuscripts.
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European integration studies
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe
An interdisciplinary research and documentation centre dedicated to European integration studies. It develops a digital library of multimedia resources related to European unification efforts since World War II, including the development of related international bodies such as the European Union. The library is available in English and French, though some documents are available in other languages.
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Chinese classic texts
Chinese Text Project
Electronic library of early Chinese texts.
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Music
Choral Public Domain Library
Free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
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Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Catholic, and Protestant Scholarship.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital 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.
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Computer science and information science
CiteSeerX
A scientific literature digital library and search engine hosted at Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Civil rights
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collects documents and information from civil rights cases across the United States.
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International relations, security
CSS Resources. Previously the International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Digital Library
Open-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).
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Various academic
D-Scribe Digital Publishing
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.
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Computer Science Bibliographies
Digital Bibliography and Library Project
The dblp computer science bibliography provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
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Comic books
Digital Comic Museum
Thousands of freely downloadable public domain Golden Age Comics which are not under copyright.
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Himalayas
Digital Himalaya
The Digital Himalaya project was designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region.
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South Carolina, United States
Discus
Provides several reliable sources exclusively for school and state libraries in South Carolina.
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Distributed Proofreaders Canada
Volunteer initiative to convert books in the Canadian public domain to readable electronic formats.
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Domínio Público
Broad access to literary, artistic and scientific works (in the form of texts, sounds, images and videos), already in the public domain or that have their dissemination properly authorized, that constitute the Brazilian and universal cultural heritage.
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English literature, English broadside ballads
EBBA (English Broadside Ballad Archive)
Online digital archive of primarily 17th century English broadside ballads, digitized into multiple accessible formats for scholars and members of the general public.
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Educational resources from over 3,000 Web sites and hundreds of CD-ROMs.
eGranary Digital Library
Over 35 million resources in every format: books, journals, 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.
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European history for over 50 countries
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Facsimiles, transcriptions and translations of primary European historical documents.
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Economics
FRASER
A digital library of economic, financial and banking materials covering the economic history of the United States.
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Gallica
French digital library.
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GetFreeEbooks
Free legal ebooks, tools, softwares, writing, tips, videos, infographics and many more.
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Software
Greenstone
A suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections.
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Heidelberg University Digital Library
More than 143,000 full-text journals and 3,900 databases (bibliographies, full texts, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.).
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Hungarian literature
Hungarian Electronic Library
Hungarian Electronic Library became one of the most popular and most significant text-archives of the Hungarian webspace.
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Ibiblio
Visitors can browse through our eclectic collections catalog and contributors can host and share their unique collections with millions worldwide.
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High energy physics
INSPIRE-HEP
Scientific documents in the field of high energy physics.
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Manuscripts
International Dunhuang Project
International 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 Road.
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Music
International Music Score Library Project
Sharing the world’s public domain music.
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History
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses.
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African Studies
Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica)
Find literature, internet resources, contacts and further information concerning African Studies.
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Religion
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Archive of public domain texts from spiritual or religious customs and traditions.
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Science
Invenio
Invenio is an open source software framework for large-scale digital repositories that provides the tools for management of digital assets in an institutional repository and research data management systems. The software is typically used for open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content and as a digital library.
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Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
A regional digital library to support the development of an intellectual and innovative potential of the society, to make a quick access to information and knowledge content possible, and to protect valuable documents of the region and national literature works.
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Classical studies
LacusCurtius
Ancient Rome texts and Archaeology.
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Learning Ally
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.
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Library of Economics and Liberty
A private educational foundation established to foster thought and encourage discussion of enduring issues pertaining to liberty.
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Public domain books in the United States
Librivox
An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English.
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Libertarianism and economics
Ludwig von Mises Institute: Literature
Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources.
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French literature
L’Association des Bibliophiles Universels
Digitizes French texts in the public domain.
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Arabic literature
Marefa
Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script.
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Marxists Internet Archive
A multilingual digital library of works by Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers.
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Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage
This collection features their newsletter, The Phoenix, from the 1970s through 2009, as well as a selection of photographs and documents that detail their importance in saving the history and places of Maryland.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Librarians and interns at the Thomas J. Watson Library have digitized over 250 early Museum Publications.
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Michigan Digitization Project
The Michigan Digitization Project is a project in partnership with Google Books to digitize the entire print collection of the University of Michigan Library.
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Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library
The Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Foundation is an organization dedicated to the dissemination of culture in Spanish.
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Music Sheets
Mutopia project
Free to download, modify, print, copy, distribute, perform, and record – all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses, in PDF, MIDI, and editable LilyPond file formats.
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National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
A digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States.
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National Digital Library Program
Multilingual, multimedia digital libraries, built together with international partners.
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National electronic library
Books, newspapers and magazines in Russian libraries.
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Engineering
National Institute of Technology Calicut
A public technical university and an institute of national importance governed by the NIT Act passed by the Parliament of India.
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National Library for the Blind
The National Library for the Blind (NLB) was a public library in the United Kingdom, founded 1882, which aimed to ensure that people with sight problems have the same access to library services as sighted people.
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Neliti
Collection of Indonesian books, reports and academic journals.
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Catholic
New Advent
Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, papal encyclicals, and similar documents. All documents are in English except the Bible.
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New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection comprises significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials held by Victoria University of Wellington Library. This encompasses both digitised heritage material and born-digital resources.
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Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin
Access to the latest digital journals, databases and web resources, the Libraries collects and preserves the finest achievements of human knowledge.
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Open University Library
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 learning experience of students and support the learning, teaching, research and personal development of members of staff.
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Pandora Archive
A rich and diverse collection of web content about all aspects of Australian life and society, including landmark events like election campaigns.
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Panjabi Literature
Panjab Digital Library
A 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.
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Paperity
An 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.
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Perseus Project
Covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
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Project Gutenberg Australia
Providing texts under Australian copyright law.
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Project Gutenberg Canada
Provides texts under Canadian copyright law.
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Dutch literature
Project Laurens Janszoon Coster
A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001.
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Project Noolaham
A Digital Archive and a Digital Library undertaking the critical work of documenting, digitally preserving and providing free and open access to knowledge bases and cultural heritage of Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities.
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Nordic literature
Project Runeberg
A volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.
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Rare Book Room
Constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.
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Readme.cc
Books translated into 10 languages.
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Russian literature, art, foreign countries books
Russian State Library
Provides bibliographic records on all types of items, including articles, published in Russian and other languages in various media at different periods of times.
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Sardinian culture
Sardegna Digital Library
Multimedia materials designed to represent Sardinia.
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Swiss newspapers
Scriptorium
Digitized and full text searchable Swiss newspapers published in canton of Vaud in the last 250 years.
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Jewish religious texts
Sefaria
Free-content digital library of Jewish texts.
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German women’s literature
Sophie Project
Digitizes and distributed German-speaking women’s writing in the public domain.
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South Asian Americans
South Asian American Digital Archive
Documents, preserves and provides access to the material history of the South Asian American community.
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Standard Ebooks
A volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
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Text Creation Partnership
Three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP).
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Humanities
Text Creation Partnership (TCP)
The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) is a not-for-profit organization based in the library of the University of Michigan since 2000. Its purpose is to produce large-scale full-text electronic resources (especially in the humanities) on behalf of both member institutions (particularly academic libraries) and scholarly publishers.
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Spanish literature
Textos.info – biblioteca digital abierta
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.
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Computer Science Bibliographies
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
This is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science.
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Biology
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
The world’s largest and most widely used resource on Charles Darwin.
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Assyriology, history, archaeology
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Safekeeping and curating information about and images of over 320 000 objects inscribed with cuneiform text.
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Sumeriology, history, archaeology
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Making accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC.
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The Kurdish Digital Library
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 journals, with searchable OCR text.
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Latin
The Latin Library
Many were originally scanned and formatted from texts in the Public Domain. Others have been downloaded from various sites on the Internet. Most of the recent texts have been submitted by contributors around the world.
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Indo-European Studies
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.
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UK Web Archive
The 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.
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Agriculture
United States National Agricultural Library
One of five national libraries of the United States. It houses one of the world’s largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences.
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Universal Digital Library
A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries.[44] 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.
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University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service
University of Michigan Library makes available an extraordinary array of resources and services.
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Images, texts, and more from libraries and museums across campus.
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Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Digital collections from the university’s library, archives and special collections.[47] Areas of strength: William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, E. J. Pratt, John Wesley, Virginia Woolf / Bloomsbury Group.
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Vilnius University Library Digital Collections
Digital collections from Vilnius University Library’s special archives: rare books, manuscripts, graphic art and photography collections dedicated for studies, research and cultural education.
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Virtually Missouri
Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions.
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Wikibooks
A digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
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Wikisource
A digital library of out-of-copyright or freely licensed books.
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History
Wisconsin Heritage Online
A collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin’s history.
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History
Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection
Wisconsin state, regional, and local history books, journals, and museum collections.
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World Wide Web Virtual Library
The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.
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Zeno.org
Digital Hausa Library covering various topics.
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