Digital

AGF Library - Contains mainly religious and mythological books and texts with some multimedia files, using a bulletin board format.
groups.msn.com/AGFlibrary/

Alexandria Digital Library Project - Digital map collections at the University of California Santa Barbara.
www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/

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.
www.americanjourneys.org/

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.
memory.loc.gov/

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - Program information, resources, and access to digital collections.
sunsite.berkeley.edu/

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.
www.lib.byu.edu/online.html

British Library Images Online - Search, order and purchase items from the thousands of images from the library’s collections.
www.imagesonline.bl.uk/

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.
www.cdlib.org/

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.
collections.ic.gc.ca/

Carrie Electronic Library - Collection of full-text electronic academic works related to Asian studies.
vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/

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.
gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/search-entry.shtml

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.
www.ceeol.com

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.
www.bookchilde.org/

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.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

Colorado Digitization Project - A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums.
www.cdpheritage.org/

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.
www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/

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).
www.natlib.govt.nz/collections/digital-collections/?searchterm=Digital%20Collections

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.
www.dlnet.vt.edu

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.
dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

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.
digital.library.upenn.edu/

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.
www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=digitalmirror

Digital Projects at the University of Illinois - Information and access to the digital collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
www.library.uiuc.edu/digproj/digprojt.html

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.
library.athabascau.ca/drr/

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.library.pitt.edu/

Digital Resources & Exhibitions - Special collections at Case Western Reserve University, including medieval manuscripts and items from the US 1930s Works Projects Administration era.
library.case.edu/ksl/research/eresources.html

Digital South Asia Library - Materials related to South Asia, including maps, statistics, photographs, and official publications.
dsal.uchicago.edu/

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.
digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/

eCUIP : The Digital Library Project - A browsable and searchable digital library of materials for K-12 teachers and students.
ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/

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.
www.ethnomath.org

Everglades Digital Library - Access to the digital collections at Florida International University. Relates to the south Florida environment.
cwis.fcla.edu/edl/

The Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History - Collection includes photographs, books, drawings and artifacts. Site in English with French version under development.
www.nextlibrary.com/tbpl/home.html

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.
www.hmml.org/vivarium/

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.
www.ibiblio.org

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.
history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/

Illuminated Books - Illuminated and illustrated books scanned for online viewing. Collection consists of books from the 1800's to the 1920's.
www.illuminated-books.com

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.
images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/

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.
www.dlib.indiana.edu/

International Children's Digital Library - Multicultural digital library of outstanding children's books.
www.childrenslibrary.org/

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.
www.archive.org/

Internet Moving Image Archive - A collection of hundreds of short films in MPEG-2 format
www.archive.org/details/movies

IntraText Digital Library - A multilingual, open access and XML-based digital library offering texts and corpora in 36 languages from religions, humanities, and research.
www.intratext.com/

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.
www.collectionscanada.ca/initiatives/index-e.html

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.
www.irvl.net/

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.
www.kyvl.org/

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.
lib.sasa.org.il/

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.
www.library.ca.gov/loc/

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.
www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/index.htm

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.
www.lifeinwesternpa.org

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.
www.kb.nl/manuscripts/

Mylib's Knowledge Portal - A portal to on-line dictionaries and reference works. Some emphasis on Malaysian society.
www.mylib.com.my/

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.
www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in

National Science Digital Library (NSDL) - A source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
nsdl.org/

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.
www.ndltd.org/browse

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.
digitalgallery.nypl.org/

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.
www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library

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.
www.vlibrary.org

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.
www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html

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.
www.nypl.org/digital/

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.
www.oac.cdlib.org/

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.
elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/

Original Sources - Electronic library with works from history, the social sciences, philosophy, literature, and religion. Fee required for access.
www.originalsources.com/

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.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/

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.
www.questia.com/

Quinnipiac University: Arnold Bernhard Library Resources - E-Texts - Materials digitized by the university and links to materials available elsewhere.
www.quinnipiac.edu/x874.xml

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.
sagnanet.is/

SAILOR: Maryland's Public Information Network - Provides public information for citizens of and visitors to Maryland, including resources for health, business, education, and history.
www.sailor.lib.md.us/

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.
digital-library.csun.edu/

Science Direct - Journals - An online library featuring fulltext journals from Academic Press and other scholarly publishers. Access by subscription.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals

Simon Fraser University Library Electronic Document Centre - Promotes access to knowledge created at Simon Fraser University and makes some of the Library's unique holdings available to a wider audience.
edocs.lib.sfu.ca/

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.
laurentius.lub.lu.se/

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
www.taevisonline.purdue.edu/

75th Anniversary of the Free Library of Philadelphia - Special collection of over 225 texts and images covering local architecture, history and African American architects.
libwww.library.phila.gov/75th/

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.
www.webarchive.org.uk

University of Chicago Digital Library Activities - Text, image, audio and special collections in the humanities and the arts.
www1.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/nand/search/diglist?search-keywords-0=*&search=::CONFIG::defsearch

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.
www.umdl.umich.edu/

University of Tennessee Digital Library Center - Promotes the development of a growing collection of digital content for the University community and the State of Tennessee.
diglib.lib.utk.edu/dlc/

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.
www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml

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.
www.lib.utsystem.edu/

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections - List of collections, and links to collections at various UW branches.
uwdc.library.wisc.edu/

Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON) - Collection of written (PDF) and spoken (MP3) texts in several Turkic languages at Texas Tech University.
aton.ttu.edu/

Victorian Women Writers Project - A collection of text, essays, and fiction written during the Victorian period, by women writers.
www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia - Information on this library consortium of shared digital collections.
www.vivalib.org/

Washington State Digital Library Resources - Text, image, archive and local history collections. Best practice guide and Digital Imaging Initiative project pages.
digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/

Worthington Memory - Online history scrapbook of Worthington, Ohio.
www.worthingtonmemory.org/

There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: Freely Accessible Databases for the Public - Article by Sandy Lewis containing a list of databases that produce a list of citations to scientific literature, published in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. <small>(December, 2001)</small>
www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-winter/internet.html