List of digital library projects

! Name

! Subject(s)

! Volumes

! Description

! Provider(s)

! Ref.

|Theravada Buddhism

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|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

|{{cite web|url=https://www.accesstoinsight.org/faq.html#whatis|title=Frequently Asked Questions About Access to Insight|website=accesstoinsight.org}}

|Shia Islam

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|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

|{{cite web|url=http://al-islam.org/|title=Free Islamic Books and Multimedia by Scholars. Browse 2,100+ resources – Al-Islam.org|website=Al-Islam.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803175314/http://www.al-islam.org/|archive-date=2011-08-03|access-date=2015-07-24}}

|Japanese language

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|Digitized Japanese language texts

|Aozora Bunko

|{{cite web|url=http://www.aozora.gr.jp/|title=青空文庫 Aozora Bunko|work=aozora.gr.jp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511172625/https://www.aozora.gr.jp/|archive-date=2018-05-11|access-date=2010-02-04}}

|Computer science and information science

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|A free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University

|Arnetminer

|{{cite web|url=http://arnetminer.org/|title=AMiner – Open Science Platform|author=Yutao Zhang-stack@live.cn|work=arnetminer.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728092533/http://arnetminer.org/|archive-date=2011-07-28|access-date=2015-07-24}}

|Arts and humanities

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|Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities. Ceased operation in 2008.

|King's College London

|{{Cite web|url=https://ahds.ac.uk/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410014850/http://ahds.ac.uk/|url-status=dead|title=Arts and Humanities Data Service: Enabling Digital Resources for the Art and Humanities|archivedate=April 10, 2015|website=ahds.ac.uk}}

|Science

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|Preprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics

|Cornell University

|{{cite web|url=https://arxiv.org/|title=arXiv.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126234524/https://arxiv.org/|archive-date=2017-01-26}}

|French literature

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|Digitizes French texts in the public domain

|{{lang|fr|Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers|italic=no}}

|{{cite web|url=http://abu.cnam.fr/|title=ABU – Bienvenue!|work=cnam.fr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218201034/http://abu.cnam.fr/|archive-date=2011-02-18|access-date=2006-03-29}}

|General

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|Open source software for building digital library collections

|Atoll Digital Library

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|Tafsir, hadith, fiqh, Usool and Islamic Scholarship{{snd}}Sunni School of thought

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|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

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|Legal studies and history

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|Documents in law, history and diplomacy

|Yale Law School

|{{cite web|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp|title=Avalon Project – Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy|work=yale.edu|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110223170521/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp|archive-date=2011-02-23}}

|Science fiction and fantasy

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|Science fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen Books

|Baen Books

|{{cite web|url=http://www.baen.com/library/|title=Baen Ebooks|work=baen.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020603123045/http://www.baen.com/library/|archive-date=2002-06-03|access-date=2006-03-29}}

|Literature, reference and verse

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|Literature, reference and verse

|Bartleby.com

|{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/|title=Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more|work=bartleby.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930073526/http://www.bartleby.com/|archive-date=2015-09-30}}

|General

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|Literature, pictures, records, memorabilia

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|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.{{cite web |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ |title=Home |website=biodiversitylibrary.org}}

|BHL Member Institutions

|{{cite web|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/|title=Biodiversity Heritage Library|work=biodiversitylibrary.org|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110223124435/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/|archive-date=2011-02-23}}

|General

|1.2+ million digital objects

|A wide variety of heritage digital collections

|Valencian Library

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|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

|{{cite web|url=http://www.bookshare.org/|title=Bookshare – An Accessible Online Library for people with print disabilities|work=bookshare.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516032112/http://www.bookshare.org/|archive-date=2008-05-16|access-date=2010-02-08}}

|General

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|A digital library that links many academic digital library collections around British Columbia

|British Columbia Electronic Library Network{{Cite news|url=https://bceln.ca/about|title=About BC ELN|date=2015-09-01|work=British Columbia Electronic Library Network|access-date=2018-06-01}}

|{{Cite web|url=https://bcdigilib.ca/|title=The British Columbia Digital Library (BCDL) {{!}} Provincial Digital Library|website=bcdigilib.ca|access-date=2018-06-01}}

|History

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|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

|{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/|title=British History Online – The core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles|work=british-history.ac.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110223132002/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/|archive-date=2011-02-23}}

|General

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|The British Library's online gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials.

|British Library

|{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html|title=Discover the riches of the British Library|work=bl.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003183424/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html|archive-date=2009-10-03}}

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|History of Canada

|60,000,000+ pages

|Canadian historical primary sources, including books, newspapers, periodicals, and nationally significant archival material

|Canadiana.org

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|An early full text electronic library

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|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

|{{cite web|url=http://libros.conaliteg.gob.mx|title=Redirección...|website=libros.conaliteg.gob.mx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013144028/http://libros.conaliteg.gob.mx/|archive-date=2016-10-13}}

|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

|{{cite web|url=http://historico.conaliteg.gob.mx|title=Catálogo de libros de primaria 1960 – 2011 México .: Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos CONALITEG :.|website=conaliteg.gob.mx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702141125/http://historico.conaliteg.gob.mx/|archive-date=2017-07-02}}

|General

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|(CRL): Edward Hunter (1902–1978) collection

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|New Testament Manuscripts

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|Preserve and study New Testament manuscripts

|csntm.org{{Cite web|url=https://www.csntm.org/|title=The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts|date=June 24, 2024|website=The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts}}

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|Science

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|Electronic library for CERN related documents

|CERN

|{{cite web|url=https://cds.cern.ch/|title=CERN Document Server|work=cern.ch|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028140159/http://cds.cern.ch/|archive-date=2014-10-28|access-date=2013-09-25}}

|Chinese classic texts

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|Electronic library of early Chinese texts

|Chinese Text Project

|{{cite web|url=http://ctext.org/|title=Chinese Text Project|work=ctext.org}}

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|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.

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|Computer science and information science

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|A scientific literature digital library and search engine hosted at Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University

|Pennsylvania State University

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|Civil rights

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|Biology

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|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

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|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

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|General

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|Library of open educational resources for Afghanistan

|Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan

|{{cite web|url=http://tech.af/post/Opeds/darakht-e-danesh-online-library-revolutionizes-education-in-afghanistan/details|website=Tech Afghanistan|title=Darakht-e Danesh Online Library Revolutionizes Education in Afghanistan}}

|Dead Sea Scrolls

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|Digitized Dead Sea Scrolls

|Leon Levy Foundation via the Israel Antiquities Authority

|{{cite web | url=https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/home | title=The Dead Sea Scrolls }}

|Accounting

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|Early literature of art, Leopoldo Cicognara

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|Digitized books from the Cicognara Library

|Digital Cicognara Partners

|{{cite web|url=https://cicognara.org/|title=Digital Cicognara|access-date=2021-09-17}}

|Comic books

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|Thousands of freely downloadable public domain Golden Age comics which are not under copyright

|Digital Comic Museum website

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|Himalayas

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|Government-funded digital library project

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|Caribbean studies

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|https://www.dloc.com/

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|General

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|325,473

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|Arts and humanities, Middletown studies

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|Ball State University

|{{cite web|url=http://dmr.bsu.edu/|title=Digital Media Repository|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116092442/http://dmr.bsu.edu/|archive-date=2010-01-16}}

|General

|49,602,373

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|South Asia

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|Materials for reference and research on South Asia

|University of Chicago

|{{cite web|url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/|title=South Asia|work=uchicago.edu|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603190910/http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/|archive-date=2016-06-03|date=2008-12-24}}

|General

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|York, United Kingdom

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|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

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|South Carolina, United States

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|Provides several reliable sources exclusively for school and state libraries in South Carolina

|South Carolina State Library

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|Toronto, Ontario, Canada

|3,000 books (approximate)

|Volunteer initiative to convert books in the Canadian public domain to readable electronic formats

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|Sumeriology, history, archaeology

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|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

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|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

|[http://www.ebba.english.ucsb.edu] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826070021/http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/|date=2015-08-26}}

|Classic works including literature, philosophy, science, religion and history[http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/free.html Free ebooks collections] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721230646/http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/free.html |date=2017-07-21 }}, cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

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|A collection of free ebook editions of significant works from the past

|University of Adelaide

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|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

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|European history for over 50 countries

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|Facsimiles, transcriptions and translations of primary European historical documents

|Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library

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|Mathematics

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|Groups and distributes European scientific publications on mathematics.

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|General

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|Active until 2016, then merged into Europeana

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|First digital library on the history of a united Europe

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|10,000,000+ digital objects

|Linking archives, libraries, museums and audio-visual material from across Europe

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|Economics

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|A digital library of economic, financial and banking materials covering the economic history of the United States

|Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

|{{cite web|url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/|title=FRASER – Discover Economic History – St. Louis Fed|work=stlouisfed.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211084652/http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/|archive-date=2013-12-11}}

|General

|10,000,000+

|French digital library

|Bibliothèque nationale de France

|{{cite web|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/blog/30032023/10-millions-de-documents-et-25-ans-dexistence?mode=desktop|title=10 millions de documents et 25 ans d'existence, Le Blog Gallica, 30 March 2023|access-date=2024-07-07}}

|General

|30,000,000+

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|General

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|General

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|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[http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digproj/projlist.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004022015/http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digproj/projlist.html|date=October 4, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://e-research.lib.harvard.edu/V/?func=find-db-1-locate&mode=locate&F-WRD=&F-WCL=&F-WPB=&F-WFL=&F-WTY=Harvard+digital+collections&restricted=all|title=MetaLib® - Find Databases and E-Resources|website=e-research.lib.harvard.edu}}

|{{cite web|url=http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/|title=Digital Collections – Harvard Library Portal|work=harvard.edu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118060335/http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/|archive-date=2012-01-18|access-date=2012-01-09}}

|General

|10,000,000+

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|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

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|General

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|Scientific publications, European historic literature of German and Latin languages

|Heidelberg University

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|University of Michigan

|{{cite web|url=http://www.hti.umich.edu/|title=Humanities Text Initiative|work=umich.edu|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040113074025/http://www.hti.umich.edu/|archive-date=2004-01-13}}

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|Humanities hub

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|Hungarian literature

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|General

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|High energy physics

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|Scientific documents in the field of high energy physics

|CERN

|{{cite web|url=http://inspire.net/|title=Basic Search|work=inspire.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716161925/http://inspire.net/|archive-date=2009-07-16|access-date=2013-11-19}}

|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."{{Cite web|url=http://iapsop.com/|title=International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals: Main|website=iapsop.com}}

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|Manuscripts

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|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

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|International relations, security

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|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

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|General

|3,100,000+

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|General

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|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.

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|Religion

|1,700+

|Archive of public domain texts from spiritual or religious customs and traditions

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|Social research

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|A UK based digital video library containing hundreds of snapshots of daily life across the UK

|JamJar Story

|{{cite web|url=http://www.jamjarstory.com|title=The Digital Archive|website=JamJar Story|access-date=3 September 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814045046/http://www.jamjarstory.com/|archive-date=14 August 2015}}

|General

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|Subscription required. Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.

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|General

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|General

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|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

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|Classical studies

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|Ancient Roman texts and archaeology

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|Sources of law

|413,273

|Collection of statutes and other sources of law from all over the world, with English summaries.

|Library of Congress

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|General

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|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{{cite web|url=http://www.LearningAlly.org/|title=Learning Ally – Support for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities|work=learningally.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727110754/https://www.learningally.org/|archive-date=2013-07-27|access-date=2020-09-28}}

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|Liberty Fund

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|Public domain books in the United States

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|An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English.

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|Libertarianism and economics

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|Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources

|Ludwig von Mises Institute{{cite web|url=https://mises.org/literature.aspx|title=Books|publisher=Mises Institute|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428212239/http://www.mises.org/literature.aspx|archive-date=2012-04-28}}

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|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

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|General

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|Arabic literature

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|Digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script

|Marefa

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|A multilingual digital library of works by Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers

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|General

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|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

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|General, heritage

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|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

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|General

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|Librarians and interns at the Thomas J. Watson Library have digitized over 250 early museum publications.

|Metropolitan Museum of Art

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|General

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|A project funded by the European Commission to give access to digital collections in European archives, museums and libraries

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|General

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|Science

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|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)

|{{cite web|url=http://ma-graph.org/|title=The Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph|website=ma-graph.org}}{{cite book|title=The Microsoft Academic Graph in RDF: A Linked Data Source with 8 Billion Triples of Scholarly Data|doi = 10.5281/zenodo.2159723|year = 2018|last1 = Färber|first1 = Michael|chapter = Scholarly Data, Digital Libraries, RDF, Knowledge Graph}}

|General

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|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{{cite web | url=http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/gerhart/MPDL/Pages/Home.aspx | title=Home | work=aucegypt.edu | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006012318/http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/gerhart/MPDL/Pages/Home.aspx | archive-date=2010-10-06 }}

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|20th century periodicals in Persian

|University of Manchester Library

|{{Citation|last=Hassaniyan|first=Allan|title=Kurdish Politics in Iran|date=2021|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/9781009029971|isbn=9781009029971|s2cid=241171409|page=4}}

|General

|3,600+

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|Japanese language

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|Digitized Japanese language texts

|National Diet Library

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|General

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|General

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|General

|1,671,878+

|Books, newspapers and magazines in Russian libraries

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|General

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|General

|50,000+

|Collection of Indonesian books, reports and academic journals

|National Library of Indonesia

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|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

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|General

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|Available through multiple library systems for cardholders in the state of Ohio

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|Provides an extensive list of digital book available online

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|Religious Studies

|190,000+

|Includes fully open access religious studies content with a stable URL that is cataloged in World Cat.

|[https://thedtl.org/contact-us/ Digital Theological Library]

|{{Cite web |last=Whitefur |first=Neal |title=LibGuides: Open Access Digital Theological Library: About |url=https://libguides.thedtl.org/oadtl/about |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=libguides.thedtl.org}}

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|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

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|AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics

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|Digital media and entertainment

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|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

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|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.

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|{{Cite web |title=Panjab Digital Library – Revealing the Invisible Heritage of Panjab through Digitization – Punjab Digital Library, First Sikh Digital Library |url=http://panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/mainpage.jsp |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=panjabdigilib.org}}{{Cite web |last=Sethi |first=Chitleen K. |date=2023-04-21 |title=Guru Granth Sahib manuscripts & state records to phulkari designs – how a digital library is 'preserving' Punjab |url=https://theprint.in/statedraft/guru-granth-sahib-manuscripts-state-records-to-phulkari-designs-how-a-digital-library-is-preserving-punjab/1528021/ |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=ThePrint}}

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|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.

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|Cooperatives

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|Contains thousands of documents on cooperatives in 29 languages and from 75 countries.

|InMédia Technologies and Institut international des coopératives Alphonse-et-Dorimène-Desjardins

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|Online human rights library; division of the Avalon Project

|Yale Law School{{cite web|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/diana.asp|title=Project Diana|work=yale.edu|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20081125151535/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/diana.asp|archive-date=2008-11-25}}

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|65,400+

|Founded in 1971, this was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.

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|Providing texts under copyright law of Australia

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|Provides texts under Canadian copyright law

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|Dutch literature

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|A collection of Dutch high literature; no longer maintained since 2001

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|Tamil literature

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|A collection of Tamil literature

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|Serbian literature

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|Publishes Serbian and Serbian-related digital material, both in the public domain and copyrighted

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|19th and 20th century periodicals in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish

|University of Bonn

|{{citation|first=Florian|last=Zemmin|title=Modernity in Islamic Tradition: The Concept of 'Society' in the Journal al-Manar (Cairo, 1898–1940)|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|year=2018|isbn=9783110545845|page=178}}

|Nordic literature

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|Translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.

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|Free literature in German language

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|Texts (usually one chapter per HTML page) are free for private use but the site claims the rights for commercial distribution.

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|Defunct; shut down in January 2021

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|Books translated into 10 languages

|European Commission

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|Environmental physiology

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|Russian literature

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|Website devoted to Russian culture and history

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|Russian children's literature

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|Russian literature

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|Russian literature, art, foreign countries' books

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|Sardinian culture

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|Multimedia materials designed to represent Sardinia

|Taulara Srl – document service provider

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|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

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|Jewish religious texts

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|Free-content digital library of Jewish texts

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|Islam

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|Digitizes and archive of Islamic Literature (largest collection of Islamic books online) in several languages

|Shia Islamic Library Project

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|German women's literature

|1,500+

|Digitizes and distributed German-speaking women's writing in the public domain

|Brigham Young University

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|South Asian Americans

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|Documents, preserves and provides access to the material history of the South Asian American community

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|Standard Ebooks project Public Domain

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|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

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|Three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP)

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|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

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|Aims to prepare all textual material relevant for Indo-European Studies (including Middle Iranian, Tocharian etc.) in electronic form for analysis

|Goethe University Frankfurt{{cite web|url=http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/texte.htm|title=TITUS: Texts|work=uni-frankfurt.de|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040209002456/http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/texte.htm|archive-date=2004-02-09|access-date=2004-02-03}}

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|Indian literature

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|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

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|World peace, education and culture

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|Documents related to UNESCO activities.

|UNESCO

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|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

|{{Cite web|title=UKWA About Us|url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/about|access-date=2020-10-20|website=webarchive.org.uk}}

|Agriculture

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|1,500,000+

|A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries.{{cite web |title=ULIB (About Us) |publisher=Carnegie Mellon University |url=http://www.ulib.org/ULIBAboutUs.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108100043/http://www.ulib.org/ULIBAboutUs.htm |archive-date=2012-01-08 }} 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

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• Univ. of Pittsburgh Archives
• 20th Century Urban Renewal
• Business & Industry
• Ethnic Groups in Pittsburgh
• Labor & Politics
• Social Action & Women's History
• Audio-visual materials

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|University of Wisconsin–Madison{{Cite web|url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/search/digital|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204142700/https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/|url-status=dead|title=UWDC Search - UW-Madison Libraries|archivedate=February 4, 2016|website=search.library.wisc.edu}}

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|A project for digitization of periodicals, postcards and photos related to Varna from the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries

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|German internet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search

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|Digital collections from the university's library, archives and special collections.{{cite web|url=http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/|title=E.J. Pratt Library|website=library.vicu.utoronto.ca|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120120333/http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/|archive-date=2013-01-20}} 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

|{{cite web|url=http://digitalcollections.vicu.utoronto.ca/RS|title=Digital Collections – Victoria University Library & Archives|website=digitalcollections.vicu.utoronto.ca}}

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|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

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|Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions

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|National Library of Wales

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|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

|{{Cite web |title=Collections |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/collections |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=Wellcome Collection}}

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|A digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia

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|History of Ottoman Empire

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|Digital library project

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|{{cite web | last=Aa | first=Daily Sabah With | title=Digital Turkish libraries: Ottoman, int'l resources just a click away | website=Daily Sabah | date=2021-04-02 | url=https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/digital-turkish-libraries-ottoman-intl-resources-just-a-click-away/news | access-date=2022-01-30}}

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|3,500,000+

|A digital library of out-of-copyright or freely licensed books

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|A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University

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|A collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history

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|History

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|Wisconsin state, regional, and local history books, journals, and museum collections

|Wisconsin Historical Society{{cite web|url=http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/search.php|title=Browsing items in: All Collections|work=wisconsinhistory.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609080915/http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/search.php|archive-date=2010-06-09|access-date=2010-04-11}}

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|Word by word multilingual library

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|Library of Congress

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|Multidisciplinary

|Unknown (282,165,495{{Cite web| url=https://zendy.io/search?q=* |title=Zendy Search |date=April 2023}})

|Focus on open access academic journals, articles, books, and book chapters

|Knowledge E, Zendy

|{{Cite web| url=https://zendy.io/|title ="Zendy" Academic Digital Library}}

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|Architecture Digital Collection

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|Collection of student work from Knowlton School and images of Ohio State Architecture

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