Open Directory - Reference: Libraries: Digital
See also: This category in other languages: - Special collection of over 225 texts and images covering local architecture, history and African American architects. - Digital map collections at the University of California Santa Barbara. - 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. - 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. - Program information, resources, and access to digital collections. - The public access interface of this online resource allows browsing or searching of university publications, including theses and the Mormon Studies Index. - Search, order and purchase items from the thousands of images from the library’s collections. - Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe is a project, funded under the European Commission's Culture 2000 programme, which has created a collection of images from early children's books. - 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 cultural heritage materials though a variety of innovative programs. - Collection of full-text electronic academic works related to Asian studies. - 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), historical mathematics materials, and Goethe illustrations. - 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. - 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, CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides a number of special features. - This is a repository of digital research materials for scholarly work taking place at MIT, including an increasing number of conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses, working papers, and more - 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. - Provides access to text, images, photographs, newspaper articles, audio and video collections as well as virtual exhibits. Bilingual site (Maori and English). - A University of Pennsylvania selection of digital library collections, exhibits, and finding aids prepared by digital librarians. Information on tools and technology. - 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. - Information and access to the digital collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. - 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. - Special collections at Case Western Reserve University, including medieval manuscripts and items from the US 1930s Works Projects Administration era. - Materials related to South Asia, including maps, statistics, photographs, and official publications. - 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. - Collection of links and papers covering the interaction of mathematics and culture, with emphasis on the indigenous mathematics of the Pacific region. - Access to the digital collections at Florida International University. Relates to the south Florida environment. - 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. - Includes text and images about agriculture and business; early Illinois authors; and issues facing minorities, immigrants, and women. Also includes an introduction to 19th century Illinois, tools for educators, and a timeline. - Illuminated and illustrated books scanned for online viewing. Collection consists of books from the 1800's to the 1920's. - A searchable database of images from the Heritage Collection of the State Library of Tasmania, Australia. - Provides access to text, images, maps and audio collections as well as virtual exhibits. Includes information on digitization projects and links to further resources. - Multicultural digital library of outstanding children's books. - 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. - A collection of hundreds of short films in MPEG-2 format - A multilingual, open access and XML-based digital library offering texts and corpora in 36 languages from religions, humanities, and research. - 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. - Nonpartisan archive of social, political, economic and cultural documents pertaining to Iran. Edited by Frederick Nemani, a professor at South Bank University, London. - 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. - Online bibliographical and image search service in Hebrew only, which also retains an "expert searcher" for locating online sources of information. - 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. - Provides access to multiple databases and millions of digital images of text, photographs and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Virginia. - 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. - Presents the collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. Highlights and database with images and backgrounds. - A portal to on-line dictionaries and reference works. Some emphasis on Malaysian society. - 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, Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scots. - 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. - 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. - A source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation. - Promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. - 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. - Based at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. The site contains text, image and audio-visual collections; including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. - 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. - Electronic library with works from history, the social sciences, philosophy, literature, and religion. Fee required for access. - An evolving collection of resources for the study of the ancient world, including archaeology, atlas, texts and translations, text tools and lexica. - Open registry of artistic works that are in the public domain. A project of the Open Knowledge Foundation. - 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. - Materials digitized by the university and links to materials available elsewhere. - Provides public information for citizens of and visitors to Maryland, including resources for health, business, education, and history. - A Georgia Tech's repository that digitally captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes the intellectual output of the Institute’s students, faculty, and researchers. - 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. - An online library featuring fulltext journals from Academic Press and other scholarly publishers. Access by subscription. - Promotes access to knowledge created at Simon Fraser University and makes some of the Library's unique holdings available to a wider audience. - 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. - 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. - 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 range of formats, including online journal articles, electronic books, audio or video clips, web sites and learning objects. - 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 Digital Library. - 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. - Text, image, audio and special collections in the humanities and the arts. - 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. - Promotes the development of a growing collection of digital content for the University community and the State of Tennessee. - 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 face to face services. - 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. - List of collections, and links to collections at various UW branches. - Collection of written (PDF) and spoken (MP3) texts in several Turkic languages at Texas Tech University. - Information on this library consortium of shared digital collections. - A collection of text, essays, and fiction written during the Victorian period, by women writers. - Text, image, archive and local history collections. Best practice guide and Digital Imaging Initiative project pages. - Talks about types of digital libraries, digital preservation and its future, searching, construction and organization, advantages and problems. - 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 awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research. [multilingual] - Online history scrapbook of Worthington, Ohio. - A browsable and searchable digital library of materials for K-12 teachers and students. - 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 of linux programs and documentation.
