List of digital library projects

This is a list of digital library projects.

Name	Subject(s)	Volumes	Description	Provider(s)	Ref.
Access to Insight	Theravada Buddhism		Provides translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition	Barre Center for Buddhist Studies	[1]
Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP)	Shia 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	[2]
Aozora Bunko	Japanese language		Digitized Japanese language texts	Aozora Bunko	[3]
Arnetminer	Computer science and information science		A free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University	Arnetminer	[4]
Arts and Humanities Data Service	Arts and humanities		Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities. Ceased operation in 2008.	King's College London	[5]
ArXiv	Science		Preprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics	Cornell University	[6]
French: L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels	French literature		Digitizes French texts in the public domain	Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers	[7]
Atoll Digital Library	General		Open source software for building digital library collections	Atoll Digital Library
Australian Islamic Library	Tafsir, hadith, fiqh, Usool and Islamic Scholarship – Sunni School of thought		Hosts over 35 classical and contemporary exegeses of the Quran, all major books of hadith, a large number of books on biographies of early Muslims and many other related titles. The library serves an international audience and offers books in numerous international languages.	Australian Islamic Library
Avalon Project	Legal studies and history		Documents in law, history and diplomacy	Yale Law School	[8]
Baen Free Library	Science fiction and fantasy		Science fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen Books	Baen Books	[9]
Bartleby.com	Literature, reference and verse		Literature, reference and verse	Bartleby.com	[10]
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica	General		Literature, pictures, records, memorabilia
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)	natural history, botany, zoology	112,000+ volumes; 40+ million pages	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.[11]	BHL Member Institutions	[12]
BIVALDI – Valencian Digital Library	General	1.2+ million digital objects	A wide variety of heritage digital collections	Valencian Library
Bookshare	General	42,000+	A library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to people with print disabilities. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books are in the collection.	Benetech	[13]
British Columbia Digital Library	General		A digital library that links many academic digital library collections around British Columbia	British Columbia Electronic Library Network[14]	[15]
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	[16]
British Library Online Gallery	General		The British Library's online gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials.	British Library	[17]
California Digital Library
Canadiana Online	History of Canada	60,000,000+ pages	Canadian historical primary sources, including books, newspapers, periodicals, and nationally significant archival material	Canadiana.org
Carrie			An early full text electronic library
Catálogo de libros de texto de educación básica en México ciclo escolar 2016–2017	Textbooks used in Mexico	891	Textbooks used in Mexico in preschool, primary, secondary and high school education in 2016–2017	Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos	[18]
Catálogo Histórico de libros de primaria en México 1960–2013	Historic textbooks used in Mexico 1960–2013	354	Historic textbooks used in Mexico in primary education from 1960 to 2013	Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos	[19]
Center for Research Libraries	General		(CRL): Edward Hunter (1902–1978) collection
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts	New Testament Manuscripts		Preserve and study New Testament manuscripts	csntm.org[20]
CERN Document Server	Science		Electronic library for CERN related documents	CERN	[21]
Chinese Text Project	Chinese classic texts		Electronic library of early Chinese texts	Chinese Text Project	[22]
Choral Public Domain Library
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)	Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Catholic, and Protestant scholarship	1,393 volumes, 440 authors	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.
CiteSeerX	Computer science and information science		A scientific literature digital library and search engine hosted at Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University	Pennsylvania State University
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse	Civil rights
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online	Biology
Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative	Assyriology, history, archaeology	320,000+	Safekeeping and curating information about and images of over 320,000 objects inscribed with cuneiform text	University of California, Los Angeles
D-Scribe Digital Publishing	various academic	100,000+	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	University of Pittsburgh
Darakht-e Danesh Library (DDL)	General		Library of open educational resources for Afghanistan	Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan	[23]
The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library	Dead Sea Scrolls		Digitized Dead Sea Scrolls	Leon Levy Foundation via the Israel Antiquities Authority	[24]
Digital Accounting Collection	Accounting
Digital Bibliography and Library Project
Digital Cicognara	Early literature of art, Leopoldo Cicognara		Digitized books from the Cicognara Library	Digital Cicognara Partners	[25]
Digital Comic Museum	Comic books		Thousands of freely downloadable public domain Golden Age comics which are not under copyright	Digital Comic Museum website
Digital Himalaya	Himalayas
Digital Library for Dutch literature			Government-funded digital library project
Digital Library of the Caribbean	Caribbean studies			https://www.dloc.com/
Digital Library of Georgia	General
Digital Library of India		325,473
Digital Media Repository	Arts and humanities, Middletown studies			Ball State University	[26]
Digital Public Library of America	General	49,602,373
Digital South Asia Library	South Asia		Materials for reference and research on South Asia	University of Chicago	[27]
Directory of Open Access Journals	General
Discover York Digital Library	York, United Kingdom		Digitised collections from the University of York Library and Borthwick Institute for Archives supporting research, teaching and engagement developed by the Library Digital Technology and Innovation team	University of York
Discus	South Carolina, United States		Provides several reliable sources exclusively for school and state libraries in South Carolina	South Carolina State Library
Distributed Proofreaders Canada	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	3,000 books (approximate)	Volunteer initiative to convert books in the Canadian public domain to readable electronic formats
Domínio Público
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature	Sumeriology, history, archaeology		Making accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC	University of Oxford
EBBA (English Broadside Ballad Archive)	English literature, English broadside ballads	Over 7,000 ballads from libraries worldwide archived	Online digital archive of primarily 17th century English broadside ballads, digitized into multiple accessible formats for scholars and members of the general public	English Broadside Ballad Archive and University of California, Santa Barbara	[28]
eBooks@Adelaide	Classic works including literature, philosophy, science, religion and history[29]		A collection of free ebook editions of significant works from the past	University of Adelaide
EEBO – Early English Books Online
eGranary Digital Library	Educational resources from over 3,000 websites and hundreds of CD-ROMs	35,000,000+ resources	An offline digital library for communities with inadequate Internet bandwidth, i.e., developing countries, rural schools, prisons. Over 35 million resources in every format: books, journals, websites, 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.	The WiderNet Project, a service program of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History	European history for over 50 countries		Facsimiles, transcriptions and translations of primary European historical documents	Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library
The European Digital Mathematics Library (EUDML)	Mathematics		Groups and distributes European scientific publications on mathematics.
The European Library	General		Active until 2016, then merged into Europeana
European Navigator			First digital library on the history of a united Europe
Europeana		10,000,000+ digital objects	Linking archives, libraries, museums and audio-visual material from across Europe
FRASER	Economics		A digital library of economic, financial and banking materials covering the economic history of the United States	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	[30]
Gallica	General	10,000,000+	French digital library	Bibliothèque nationale de France	[31]
Google Books	General	30,000,000+
Greenstone (software)	General
Harvard University Library digital collections	General		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.	Harvard University[32][33]	[34]
HathiTrust	General	10,000,000+
Hebrewbooks.org	Rabbinical and classical Hebrew texts	64,000+	All texts are available for free download in PDF format. The platform features advanced search capabilities and optical character recognition (OCR) options	The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books
Heidelberg University Digital Library	General		Scientific publications, European historic literature of German and Latin languages	Heidelberg University
Humanities				University of Michigan	[35]
Humbul			Humanities hub
Hungarian Electronic Library	Hungarian literature
Ibiblio	General
INSPIRE-HEP	High energy physics		Scientific documents in the field of high energy physics	CERN	[36]
International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals	Spiritualist and occult documents and literature	6,700+ texts	"The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals."[37]
International Dunhuang Project	Manuscripts		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	British Library and twenty other institutions
International Music Score Library Project
International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Digital Library (now part of CSS Resources)	International relations, security		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).	Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich
Internet Archive	General	3,100,000+
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica)
Internet memory	General		Internet Memory Foundation was a non-profit institution. It actively supported the preservation of Internet as a new media for heritage and cultural purpose. Defunct in 2018.
Internet Sacred Text Archive	Religion	1,700+	Archive of public domain texts from spiritual or religious customs and traditions
JamJar Story	Social research		A UK based digital video library containing hundreds of snapshots of daily life across the UK	JamJar Story	[38]
JSTOR	General		Subscription required. Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library	General
The Kurdish Digital Library	General		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.	Kurdish Institute of Paris
LacusCurtius	Classical studies		Ancient Roman texts and archaeology
The Latin Library
Law Library of Congress	Sources of law	413,273	Collection of statutes and other sources of law from all over the world, with English summaries.	Library of Congress
Learning Ally	General		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.	Learning Ally[39]
Library of Economics and Liberty				Liberty Fund
Librivox	Public domain books in the United States		An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English.
Literary Kicks
Ludwig von Mises Institute: Literature	Libertarianism and economics		Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources	Ludwig von Mises Institute[40]
Luna Digital Image Collection	Arts and Humanities	80,000+	Repository of images from the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection, including content related to William Shakespeare, the early modern period, and performance history	Folger Shakespeare Library
Making of America collections	General
Marefa	Arabic literature		Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script	Marefa
Marxists Internet Archive			A multilingual digital library of works by Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers
Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage	General
Memoriademadrid Digital Library	General		A Spanish digital library that provides access to the cultural heritage of the city of Madrid. Memoriademadrid digitizes heritage collections from the archives, libraries and museums belonging to the Local Government of Madrid.	Biblioteca Digital memoriademadrid
Metelwin Digital Library	General, heritage		Online digital library containing books, magazines, journals, newspapers and manuscripts with index and searchable OCR text. Contains digitized regional heritage collections and collections of different ephemeral printed materials. All content free for use.	Metelwin Digital Library
Metropolitan Museum of Art	General		Librarians and interns at the Thomas J. Watson Library have digitized over 250 early museum publications.	Metropolitan Museum of Art
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
Michigan Digitization Project	General
Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph (MAKG)	Science		The Microsoft Academic Graph (MAKG) is a large RDF data set with over eight billion triples with information about scientific publications and related entities, such as authors, institutions, journals, and fields of study. The data set is licensed under the Open Data Attributions license.	University of Freiburg (original files: Microsoft Academic)	[41][42]
Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library	General
The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library			MPDL covers material from 1900 to the present. It encompasses the diverse cultural, political and social factors influencing the practice of philanthropy as well as the significant contributions from across Muslim-majority countries to contemporary global philanthropic practice.	The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library[43]
Mutopia project
NALANDA
Nashriyah	General		20th century periodicals in Persian	University of Manchester Library	[44]
National Academies Press	General	3,600+
National Diet Library Digital Collections	Japanese language		Digitized Japanese language texts	National Diet Library
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program	General
National Digital Library Program	General
National electronic library	General	1,671,878+	Books, newspapers and magazines in Russian libraries
National Library for the Blind	General
Neliti[45]	General	50,000+	Collection of Indonesian books, reports and academic journals	National Library of Indonesia
New Advent	Catholic	595	Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, papal encyclicals, and similar documents. All documents are in English except the Bible.	Kevin Knight
New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery	General
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Ohio e-book Project	General		Available through multiple library systems for cardholders in the state of Ohio
On This Day
Online Books Page	General		Provides an extensive list of digital book available online
Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin	General
Open Access Digital Theological Library	Religious Studies	190,000+	Includes fully open access religious studies content with a stable URL that is cataloged in World Cat.	Digital Theological Library	[46]
Open Content Alliance	General
Open Library	General	1,000,000+
Open University Library	General		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.	Open University Library
OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center	General
Oxford Text Archive	AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
PAIL Solicitors Digital Media and Entertainment Resource Library	Digital media and entertainment		An index divided into two main categories, digital media, technology and entertainment; and website and mobile apps projects, consisting of seven subcategories. The site includes more than 100 articles and comments related to law, society and policy.	PAIL Solicitors Resource Library
Pandora Archive	General
Panjab Digital Library	Panjabi Literature	65,000,000+ pages from over 700,000 documents	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.		[47][48]
Paperity	General	1,500,000+ articles from 4,200+ journals	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.	Paperity
Perseus Project	General
PortailCoop	Cooperatives		Contains thousands of documents on cooperatives in 29 languages and from 75 countries.	InMédia Technologies and Institut international des coopératives Alphonse-et-Dorimène-Desjardins
Project Diana			Online human rights library; division of the Avalon Project	Yale Law School[49]
Project Gutenberg	General	65,400+	Founded in 1971, this was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
Project Gutenberg Australia	General		Providing texts under copyright law of Australia
Project Gutenberg Canada	General		Provides texts under Canadian copyright law
Project Laurens Janszoon Coster	Dutch literature		A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001
Project Madurai	Tamil literature		A collection of Tamil literature
Project Noolaham	General
Project Rastko	Serbian literature		Publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in the public domain and copyrighted
Project Translatio	General		19th and 20th century periodicals in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish	University of Bonn	[50]
Project Runeberg	Nordic literature
Project Sugita Genpaku			Translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.
Projekt-Gutenberg-DE[51]	Free literature in German language		Texts (usually one chapter per HTML page) are free for private use but the site claims the rights for commercial distribution.
Questia Online Library	General		Defunct; shut down in January 2021
Rare Book Room	General
Readme.cc	General		Books translated into 10 languages	European Commission
Rubicon Research Repository	Environmental physiology
Runivers	Russian literature		Website devoted to Russian culture and history
Russian National Electronic Children Library[52]	Russian children's literature
Russian State Historic Public Library[53]	Russian literature
Russian State Library	Russian literature, art, foreign countries' books
Sardegna Digital Library	Sardinian culture		Multimedia materials designed to represent Sardinia	Taulara Srl – document service provider
SciElo
Scriptorium	Swiss newspapers	2,500,000+ pages	Digitized and full text searchable Swiss newspapers published in canton of Vaud in the last 250 years	University of Lausanne
Sefaria	Jewish religious texts		Free-content digital library of Jewish texts
Shia Islamic Library Archive – multi-language	Islam		Digitizes and archive of Islamic Literature (largest collection of Islamic books online) in several languages	Shia Islamic Library Project
Sophie Project	German women's literature	1,500+	Digitizes and distributed German-speaking women's writing in the public domain	Brigham Young University
South Asian American Digital Archive	South Asian Americans		Documents, preserves and provides access to the material history of the South Asian American community
Standard Ebooks	General			Standard Ebooks project Public Domain
Swiss Foundation Public Domain	Public domain music	50,000+ gramophone records and phonograph cylinders	A project for the conservation and utilization of public domain music and film material	Swiss Foundation Public Domain
Texas Digital Library	General
Text Creation Partnership	General		Three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP)
Textos.info[54] – biblioteca digital abierta	Spanish literature	5,000+	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.	Eduardo Robsy Petrus
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	Goethe University Frankfurt[55]
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library	Indian literature		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
UNESCO Digital Library	World peace, education and culture		Documents related to UNESCO activities.	UNESCO
UK Web Archive	General		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.	Bodleian Libraries, British Library, Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, Trinity College Dublin	[56]
United States National Agricultural Library	Agriculture
Universal Digital Library	General	1,500,000+	A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries.[57] 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. Ended in 2008
University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service	General
University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center[58]	Univ. of Pittsburgh Archives 20th Century Urban Renewal Business & Industry Ethnic Groups in Pittsburgh Labor & Politics Social Action & Women's History Audio-visual materials
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections	General			University of Wisconsin–Madison[59]
US National Library of Medicine
Varna Digital Library, Варненска дигитална библиотека	General		A project for digitization of periodicals, postcards and photos related to Varna from the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Vascoda	General		German internet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search
Victoria University in the University of Toronto	General		Digital collections from the university's library, archives and special collections.[60] Areas of strength: William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, E. J. Pratt, John Wesley, Virginia Woolf / Bloomsbury Group.	Victoria University in the University of Toronto	[61]
Vilnius University Library Digital Collections[62]	General	8,000	Digital collections from Vilnius University Library's special archives: rare books, manuscripts, graphic art and photography collections dedicated for studies, research and cultural education	Vilnius University Library
Virtually Missouri	General		Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions
Welsh Journals Online	General			National Library of Wales
Wellcome Collection	Health and the human experience	45,000,000 images from 280,000 items	Large and growing digitised collection covering an array of topics relating to health and the human experience in many forms, from recently published books to historical manuscripts and objects.	Wellcome Collection	[63]
Wikibooks	General		A digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia
Wikilala	History of Ottoman Empire		Digital library project		[64]
Wikisource	General	3,500,000+	A digital library of out-of-copyright or freely licensed books
Wired for Books			A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University
Wisconsin Heritage Online			A collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history
Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection	History		Wisconsin state, regional, and local history books, journals, and museum collections	Wisconsin Historical Society[65]
Wordtheque			Word by word multilingual library
World Digital Library	General			Library of Congress
World Wide Web Virtual Library	General
Zendy	Multidisciplinary	Unknown (282,165,495[66])	Focus on open access academic journals, articles, books, and book chapters	Knowledge E, Zendy	[67]
Zeno.org
Knowlton Digital Library	Architecture Digital Collection		Collection of student work from Knowlton School and images of Ohio State Architecture

See also

• Bibliographic database
• List of academic databases and search engines
• List of online databases
• List of online encyclopedias
• List of open-access journals
• List of search engines