Web Directory

» 75th Anniversary of the Free Library of Philadelphia
   Special collection of over 225 texts and images covering local architecture, history and African American architects.
   http://libwww.library.phila.gov/75th/

» Alexandria Digital Library Project
   Digital map collections at the University of California Santa Barbara.
   http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/

» American Journeys
   A digital library of more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration. A collaboration between the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day.
   http://www.americanjourneys.org/

» American Memory
   Site hosted by the Library of Congress as a gateway to online collections of the history and culture of the United States, totaling more than 7 million digital items.
   http://memory.loc.gov/

» Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
   Program information, resources, and access to digital collections.
   http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

» Brigham Young University Digital Media Library
   The public access interface of this online resource allows browsing or searching of university publications, including theses and the Mormon Studies Index.
   http://www.lib.byu.edu/online.html

» British Library Images Online
   Search, order and purchase items from the thousands of images from the library’s collections.
   http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/

» California Digital Library (CDL)
   Provides access to scholarly materials, databases of journal article abstracts and citations, electronic journals, publishing tools, and reference databases for the University of California. The CDL also builds collections and provides public access to cu
   http://www.cdlib.org/

» Canada's Digital Collections
   Collections include over 600 web sites covering Canadian history, geography, science, technology and culture, ranging from national treasures to local history. The site features educational resources, such as curriculum units, classroom activities, quizze
   http://collections.ic.gc.ca/

» Carrie Electronic Library
   Collection of full-text electronic academic works related to Asian studies.
   http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/

» Center for Retrospective Digitization
   Access to the digital collections at the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen, Germany, including the Gutenberg Bible, travel literature and North Americana from the 18th and 19th centuries, DIEPER (Digitized European Periodicals), histori
   http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/search-entry.shtml

» Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)
   A paid subscription service providing access to articles, scholarly journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents from cultural and scientific publications related to central and eastern Europe.
   http://www.ceeol.com

» CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
   Aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSee
   http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

» Colorado Digitization Project
   A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums.
   http://www.cdpheritage.org

» Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS)
   Based at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), the collection includes websites, e-journals, films, snapshots of discussion boards, and single documents covering social and political subject matters.
   http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/

» Digital Collections: National Library of New Zealand
   Provides access to text, images, photographs, newspaper articles, audio and video collections as well as virtual exhibits. Bilingual site (Maori and English).
   http://www.natlib.govt.nz/collections/digital-collections/?searchterm=Digital%20Collections

» Digital Library Project
   A University of Pennsylvania selection of digital library collections, exhibits, and finding aids prepared by digital librarians. Information on tools and technology.
   http://digital.library.upenn.edu/

» Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST)
   Developed by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona using Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant Eprints v.2 software.
   http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

» Digital Projects at the University of Illinois
   Information and access to the digital collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
   http://www.library.uiuc.edu/digproj/digprojt.html

» Digital Research Library (DRL)
   Text-based collections, photographs, map images, finding aids, databases, audio-visual material, and bibliographic catalogs of collections to aid the research of scholars, historians, faculty, and students at the University of Pittsburgh.
   http://digital.library.pitt.edu/

» Digital Resources & Exhibitions
   Special collections at Case Western Reserve University, including medieval manuscripts and items from the US 1930s Works Projects Administration era.
   http://library.case.edu/ksl/research/eresources.html

» Digital South Asia Library
   Materials related to South Asia, including maps, statistics, photographs, and official publications.
   http://dsal.uchicago.edu/

» Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
   Collection includes texts and maps pertaining to the history of 41 counties in eastern North Carolina and works of fiction that relate to some of those counties. Historic soil surveys and maps with zooming capability are a unique feature of the site.
   http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/

» Ethnomathematics Digital Library
   Collection of links and papers covering the interaction of mathematics and culture, with emphasis on the indigenous mathematics of the Pacific region.
   http://www.ethnomath.org

» Everglades Digital Library
   Access to the digital collections at Florida International University. Relates to the south Florida environment.
   http://cwis.fcla.edu/edl/

» Hill Museum & Manuscript Library - Vivarium
   Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, audio, video, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota.
   http://www.hmml.org/vivarium/

» Illuminated Books
   Illuminated and illustrated books scanned for online viewing. Collection consists of books from the 1800's to the 1920's.
   http://www.illuminated-books.com

» Images from the Heritage Collection of the State Library of Tasmania
   A searchable database of images from the Heritage Collection of the State Library of Tasmania, Australia.
   http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/

» Indiana University Digital Library Program
   Provides access to text, images, maps and audio collections as well as virtual exhibits. Includes information on digitization projects and links to further resources.
   http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/

» International Children's Digital Library
   Multicultural digital library of outstanding children's books.
   http://www.childrenslibrary.org/

» Internet Archive
   A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Includes a text archive of digitised books from Canadian libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, and Project Gutenberg.
   http://www.archive.org/

» Internet Moving Image Archive
   A collection of hundreds of short films in MPEG-2 format
   http://www.archive.org/details/movies

» IntraText Digital Library
   A multilingual, open access and XML-based digital library offering texts and corpora in 36 languages from religions, humanities, and research.
   http://www.intratext.com/

» Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives
   Provides descriptions of Canadian information resources created for the Internet, including general digital collections, resources centered around a particular theme, and reference sources and databases.
   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/initiatives/index-e.html

» Iran Virtual Library
   Nonpartisan archive of social, political, economic and cultural documents pertaining to Iran. Edited by Frederick  Nemani, a professor at South Bank University, London.
   http://www.irvl.net/

» Kentucky Virtual Library
   Online catalogs and databases, online tutorial and help with internet-based research, a virtual reference desk, and access to Kentuckiana digitized collections, serving Kentuckians and supporting the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University.
   http://www.kyvl.org/

» Kibbutz Sasa Virtual Library
   Online bibliographical and image search service in Hebrew only, which also retains an "expert searcher" for locating online sources of information.
   http://lib.sasa.org.il/

» Library of California
   Details the Library's services to local libraries, state and local government and the public as well as links to California Research Bureau papers online, LDS publications, the California Library Directory and other useful information.
   http://www.library.ca.gov/loc/

» Library of Virginia Digital Library Program
   Provides access to multiple databases and millions of digital images of text, photographs and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Virginia.
   http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/index.htm

» Life in Western Pennsylvania 1840 -1970
   Historic photographic collection provided by the library and archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. The site also covers the local history of photography and information on the care and handling of photographs.
   http://www.lifeinwesternpa.org

» Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
   Presents the collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. Highlights and database with images and backgrounds.
   http://www.kb.nl/manuscripts/

» Mylib's Knowledge Portal
   A portal to on-line dictionaries and reference works. Some emphasis on Malaysian society.
   http://www.mylib.com.my/

» NLS Digital Library
   Special collections held by the National Library of Scotland including: The Murthly Hours medieval manuscripts, Experiences of War, Maps of Scotland, First Scottish Books, Scottish Decorative Bookbinding, Photographs of Modern Scottish Writers, Churchill,
   http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html

» NYPL Digital Library Collections
   Collections provided by the New York Public Library covering Black culture and experience, history, literature, maps, New York City and State, performing arts, prints, and photographs.
   http://www.nypl.org/digital/

» Nalanda Digital Library
   Based at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC) in India. Open access is provided to selected collections of published papers, PhD theses, student projects, research reports, course materials, ebooks, etexts and Perl scripts.
   http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in

» National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
   A source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
   http://nsdl.org/

» New York Public Library Digital Gallery
   Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from the library collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.
   http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

» Online Publications at the University of Stuttgart (OPUS)
   Collection of theses, dissertations, preprints, proceedings and full-text documents published in pdf format by staff and students of the University. Site in German and English.
   http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/

» Original Sources
   Electronic library with works from history, the social sciences, philosophy, literature, and religion. Fee required for access.
   http://www.originalsources.com/

» Perseus Digital Library
   An evolving collection of resources for the study of the ancient world, including archaeology, atlas, texts and translations, text tools and lexica.
   http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

» Public Domain Works
   Open registry of artistic works that are in the public domain. A project of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
   http://www.publicdomainworks.net/

» Questia
   Paid subscription service that provides access to a large online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.
   http://www.questia.com/

» Quinnipiac University: Arnold Bernhard Library Resources - E-Texts
   Materials digitized by the university and links to materials available elsewhere.
   http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x874.xml

» SAILOR: Maryland's Public Information Network
   Provides public information for citizens of and visitors to Maryland, including resources for health, business, education, and history.
   http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/

» Sagnanetið
   Saganet project by the National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University with the association of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland to provide the entire range of Icelandic family sagas and other works published before 1900 online.
   http://sagnanet.is/

» San Fernando Valley History Digital Library
   An image database of historically significant documents, manuscripts, photographs and related graphic materials of the San Fernando Valley. Administered by the State Librarian of California.
   http://digital-library.csun.edu/

» Science Direct - Journals
   An online library featuring fulltext journals from Academic Press and other scholarly publishers. Access by subscription.
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals

» Simon Fraser University Library Electronic Document Centre
   Promotes access to knowledge created at Simon Fraser University and makes some of the Library's unique holdings available to a wider audience.
   http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/

» St Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
   A collection of scanned images of medieval manuscripts comprising 67 volumes, ranging from the 10th century to the 1640s provided by Lund University Library in Sweden.
   http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/

» The Digital Mirror
   The Welsh national collection of manuscripts, early and rare printed books, antiquarian maps, and diverse images at The National Library of Wales. Includes online exhibitions and information about the digitisation program.
   http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=digitalmirror

» The Digital Reading Room (DRR)
   An Athabasca University Library project. The DRR is an interactive online reading room, offering a digital solution for course readings and supplementary materials. It has been designed to provide access to faculty-selected resources and can accommodate a
   http://library.athabascau.ca/drr/

» The Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History
   Collection includes photographs, books, drawings and artifacts. Site in English with French version under development.
   http://www.nextlibrary.com/tbpl/home.html

» The Online Archive of California
   This union database of manuscripts and images from institutions across California is comprised of over 5,000 archival finding aids encoded using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard and the SGML document type definition. Part of the California Digi
   http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

» There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: Freely Accessible Databases for the Public
   Article by Sandy Lewis containing a list of databases that produce a list of citations to scientific literature, published in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.
   http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-winter/internet.html

» UK Web Archiving Consortium
   Aimed at the broad research community and is systematically attempting to create an archive of social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain.
   http://www.webarchive.org.uk

» University of Chicago Digital Library Activities
   Text, image, audio and special collections in the humanities and the arts.
   http://www1.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/nand/search/diglist?search-keywords-0=*&search=::CONFIG::defsearch

» University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service
   The Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) was formed in 1996 to provide infrastructure for campus digital library collections, including both access and delivery of collection content.
   http://www.umdl.umich.edu/

» University of Tennessee Digital Library Center
   Promotes the development of a growing collection of digital content for the University community and the State of Tennessee.
   http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/dlc/

» University of Tennessee-Martin Andy Holt Virtual Library
   Focus is on the humanities and fine arts, with access to local and world library catalogs, electronic journals, databases, virtual reference desk, digitized documents, and departmental resources. Partners with the physical Paul Meek Library to provide fac
   http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml

» University of Texas System Digital Library
   Supporting the learning and research needs of the University of Texas Telecampus and University of Texas System students and faculty on campus and at a distance.
   http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/

» University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
   List of collections, and links to collections at various UW branches.
   http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/

» Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON)
   Collection of written (PDF) and spoken (MP3) texts in several Turkic languages at Texas Tech University.
   http://aton.ttu.edu

» VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia
   Information on this library consortium of shared digital collections.
   http://www.vivalib.org/

» Victorian Women Writers Project
   A collection of text, essays, and fiction written during the Victorian period, by women writers.
   http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

» Washington State Digital Library Resources
   Text, image, archive and local history collections. Best practice guide and Digital Imaging Initiative project pages.
   http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/

» Wikipedia: Digital library
   Talks about types of digital libraries, digital preservation and its future, searching, construction and organization, advantages and problems.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library

» World Digital Library
   Significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs and architectural drawings to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awarenes
   http://www.wdl.org

» Worthington Memory
   Online history scrapbook of Worthington, Ohio.
   http://www.worthingtonmemory.org/

» eCUIP : The Digital Library Project
   A browsable and searchable digital library of materials for K-12 teachers and students.
   http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/

» ibiblio
   A collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill to provide public domain material, organised by subject and UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) including journals, ebooks and a special collection o
   http://www.ibiblio.org/