Reference Libraries Digital
75th Anniversary of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Special collection of over 225 texts and images covering local architecture, history and African American architects.
AGF Library
Contains mainly religious and mythological books and texts with some multimedia files, using a bulletin board format.
Alexandria Digital Library Project
Digital map collections at the University of California Santa Barbara.
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.
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Program information, resources, and access to digital collections.
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 articl
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 Library Network for Engineering and Technology (DLNET)
A collaborative effort by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Iowa State University (ISU) and Virginia Tech (VATECH) to provide a platform for posting, reviewing and accessing learning resources in Engineering and Technology and a gateway to education and research materials.
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. Site includes information on tools and technology.
Digital Projects at the University of Illinois
Information and access to the digital collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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.
eCUIP : The Digital Library Project
A browsable and searchable digital library of materials for K-12 teachers and students.
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.
Illinois Alive
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 Books
Illuminated and illustrated books scanned for online viewing. Collection consists of books from the 1800's to the 1920's.
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.
Indiana University Digital Library Program
Provides access to text, images, maps and audio collections as well as virtual exhibits. The site includes information on digitization projects and links to further resources.
International Children's Digital Library
Multicultural digital library of outstanding children's books.
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.
Internet Moving Image Archive
A collection of hundreds of short films in MPEG-2 format
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.
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)
Comprehensive 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.
New Zealand Digital Library (NZDL)
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.
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