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.
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.
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.
British Library Images Online - Search, order and purchase items from the thousands of images from the library’s collections.
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 cultural heritage materials though a variety of innovative programs.
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, quizzes and games. Also available in French.
Carrie Electronic Library - Collection of full-text electronic academic works related to Asian studies.
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), historical mathematics materials, and Goethe illustrations.
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.
CHILDE Project - 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.
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, 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.
Colorado Digitization Project - A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 range of formats, including online journal articles, electronic books, audio or video clips, web sites and learning objects.
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.
Digital Resources & Exhibitions - Special collections at Case Western Reserve University, including medieval manuscripts and items from the US 1930s Works Projects Administration era.
Digital South Asia Library - Materials related to South Asia, including maps, statistics, photographs, and official publications.
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.
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.
Everglades Digital Library - Access to the digital collections at Florida International University. Relates to the south Florida environment.
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.
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 of linux programs and documentation.
Illuminated Books - Illuminated and illustrated books scanned for online viewing. Collection consists of books from the 1800's to the 1920's.
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.
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.
IntraText Digital Library - A multilingual, open access and XML-based digital library offering texts and corpora in 36 languages from religions, humanities, and research.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mylib's Knowledge Portal - A portal to on-line dictionaries and reference works. Some emphasis on Malaysian society.
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.
National Science Digital Library (NSDL) - A source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - Catalog of theses and doctoral dissertations hosted by Virginia Tech contributed by some 176 Universities and 27 Institutions worldwide. Some entries may include abstracts and/or full-text attachments.
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.
NICI Virtual Library - The National Institute for Community Innovations is based in Montpelier, Vermont and provides a subscription service for access to dictionaries, e-books, card catalogs, periodicals, and researched internet resources.
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, Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scots.
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.
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 Digital Library.
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.
Original Sources - Electronic library with works from history, the social sciences, philosophy, literature, and religion. Fee required for access.
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.
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.
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. Site in English and Icelandic.
SAILOR: Maryland's Public Information Network - Provides public information for citizens of and visitors to Maryland, including resources for health, business, education, and history.
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.
Science Direct - Journals - An online library featuring fulltext journals from Academic Press and other scholarly publishers. Access by subscription.
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.
TAEVIS Online Home Page - Tactile access to education for visually impaired students.A collection of 2,500 tactile diagrams covering college-level course.In either braille or low-vision format, for sale to subscribers
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.
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.
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 face to face services.
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.
Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources - List of references originally compiled by Steven Ketchpel at Stanford University, forms part of a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science.
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) - BASE provides integrated access to distributed collections of various type and format (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals etc.) by applying search engine technology in the context of scholarly search- and retrieval services.
British Columbia Digital Library - Guide to full-text collections and resources, including software tools and standards by the British Columbia Community Networks Association; also dedicated to the digitization and storage of local publications.
Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE) - Based at the University of North Carolina, the center is interested in the migration, management, and accessibility of digital information. It serves as a test bed for the development of new methodologies and also focuses on training and education by collaborating with other academic units, companies and organizations. Includes research publications, news, and further information and links.
Center for the Study of Digital Libraries - Established in 1995 at Texas A&M University and builds upon research developed in the Hypermedia Research Laboratory established in 1987. Includes research, publications, events and course information.
Colorado Digitization Project - A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of local archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Includes guidelines, standards, resources and links to further information.
DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP5) - An initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework Programme (IST-FP5) to support and encourage research activities.
DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP6) - An initiative funded by the European Union's Information Society Technologies 6th Framework Programme to integrate and coordinate ongoing research activities within Europe and disseminate knowledge.
Desire Project - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education. This project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between partners at ten institutions from four European countries. Publications, handbook and development toolkit.
DigiCULT Forum - Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is a 30-month European funded project to monitor and assess existing and emerging technologies to benefit the cultural heritage sector between March 2002 and August 2004. Includes reports, current awareness, events and links to further resources.
DIGI-EVAL - Mailing list to support the eVALUEd project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives.
Digital and Preservation Online Resource Center - Provided by the OCLC Digitization and Preservation Outreach Center, this site hosts information about copyright, digitization, grants assistance, preservation and news and events.
Digital Cultural Content Forum - A forum that seeks to assume a leadership role in disseminating practice and building consensus amongst individuals and agencies active in digitization and online dissemination of cultural heritage resources.
Digital Cultural Heritage Community - Provides materials from East Central Illinois museums and libraries in support of elementary school social studies curricula, as well as workshops and training materials to help teachers integrate materials into class exercises.
Digital Curation Centre (DDC) - A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice.
Digital Himalaya - A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
Digital Libraries Initiative - Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
Digital Library Competence Center (DLibCenter) - The center provides specific user communities with access to advanced technologies, services, expertise and knowledge with courses for librarians, archivists, scholars and technicians. The site is available in English and Italian.
Digital Preservation Coalition - Aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK. Includes background information on the coalition, their program of work, details of their administration, how interested parties can participate, and the full-text of the Preservation of Digital Materials handbook.
DIGLIB Mailing List - For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
DLib Forum and DLib Magazine - The forum hosts a working group on metrics, a test suite for online research and list of further references. The web magazine is published monthly and covers news, innovation and research.
DSpace: Durable Digital Depository - A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, news and staff information.
eVALUEd - Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage.
Handbook for Digital Projects - From the Northeast Document Conservation Center, a manual for preservation and access, 1st edition, edited by Maxine K. Sitts.
Informedia-II Digital Video Library - Research at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization.
KCL Digital Consultancy Service (KDCS) - Established at King's College London in September 2003, KDCS carries out research and provides fee-based consultancy services in the area of digitisation and digital resource management. Includes project examples, consultancy information and research publications.
King's Digital Consultancy Services - Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK.
LOCKSS Permanent Publishing on the Web - Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems.
MarcOnt Initiative - Ontology development based on a social agreement that will combine descriptions from MARC21 together with DublinCore and makes use of the full potential of the Semantic Web technologies.
Minnesota Digital Library Project - An initiative to assist archives, historical societies, and libraries digitize and provide coordinated access to valuable information resources reflecting the cultural heritage of Minnesota.
NINCH Guide to Good Practice - guidance in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
NSDL Communication Portal - Provides users and developers of the National Science Digital Library with an online collaborative area, including public workspaces, discussion forums, and support.
Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (Paradigm) - A JISC-funded project of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester to produce an online workbook on Digital Private Papers of use to libraries and archives in preserving digital research materials.
Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) - Hosted by the National Library of Australia and directed by an international advisory group, PADI provides access to a wide range of digital preservation resources.
Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project - Documents and information on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information.
Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) - Supports the academic community on the creation, storage and delivery of image-related information, and also offers digitisation advice.
Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (Ticer BV) - Centre based at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, whose primary activities include consultancy and organising an annual international summer school, and other courses and seminars.
Touch and Turn - A Swedish company based in Stockholm that delivers software solutions for virtual browsing with touch screen technology, publishes rare books and develops Internet based services for mediation.
UIUC Digital Library Testbed - Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
University of Michigan Digital Library Project - A NSF/ARPA/NASA-sponsored project incorporating basic research, system building, deployment, and evaluation of a usable digital library. The UMDL provides access to significant public domain collections of scientific data and information.
Washington State Library Digital Best Practices - A guide to major decision points in planning a digital project, ranging from administrative factors to technology concerns to financial management.
WebArchivist - A research and software development group based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology that works with scholars, librarians and archivists interested in preserving and analyzing materials created for and distributed on the Web. Creates web-based tools, helps with project design and procedures, and develops institutional policies necessary to complete these tasks.
A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. - Martha Brogan provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user. (December 12, 2003)
Digilib 2003 - Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, the Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments is held in Espoo, Finland. (September 8, 2003)
Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources - A report by Louis A. Pitschmann that identifies and synthesizes existing practices used in developing collections of free third-party Internet resources that support higher education and research. (June, 2001)
Realizing the Hybrid Library - Paper discusses the hybrid library model of information provision, outlining a number of eLib funded projects and covering key technological and managerial issues. (October, 1998)
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library - Proceedings of the international conference organised by UKOLN, held 16th and 17th June 1997, London. Full text provides broad historical perspective. (January 19, 1998)