African Online Digital Library - AODL
http://www.aodl.org
Matrix and research teams at the Institut Fondamental d‚Afrique Noire (IFAN)
and the West African Research Center (WARC), both in Dakar, Senegal, are working
together to develop a multi-media digital library of West African sources in
multiple languages.
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Albert Einstein Archives
http://www.albert-einstein.org/
This site provides information regarding Einstein's contributions as a scientist, humanist, and Jew. It includes a timeline of key events during his life, a bibliography of primary and secondary literature, links to other sites, and a description of the archive's text and multimedia resources. The "Einstein for Kids" section reproduces some of Einstein's letters to and from children as well as other correspondence. |
American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written
and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps,
and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record
of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections
of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events,
people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public
as a resource for education and lifelong learning. |
California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/
The California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of
the world's scholarship and knowledge for the University of California libraries
and the communities they serve. Offers more than 21,000 electronic journals,
tens of thousands of electronic books, and more than 250 article and reference
databases. |
D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/
"D-Lib Magazine is a solely electronic publication with a primary focus on
digital library research and development, including but not limited to new
technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues. The
magazine is published eleven times a year and is released monthly, except
for the July and August issues which are combined and released in July. The
full contents of the magazine, including all back issues, are available free
of charge at the D-Lib web site as well as multiple mirror sites around the
world. The primary goal of the magazine is timely and efficient information
exchange for the digital library community."
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Digital Libraries Gateway from Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.us/digital.html
Directory from Academic Info that features: Electronic Libraries & Digital
Archives, Digital Library Methods & Research,
Libraries & Library Catalogs, ***Subject Specific Digital Libraries*** |
Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/
DLA, a department in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, began in 2000
with the merger of the Scholarly Communications Project (SCP) and Special
Collections Department. SCP's focus since 1991 has been to work with the
University community to host born-digital works such as faculty-edited electronic
journals and ETDs completed by VT graduate students. Special Collections
focuses on preserving and providing access to rare books, manuscript collections,
and the University Archives. Together, DLA also provides access to digitized
Special Collections' materials such as photographs through the VT ImageBase.
They create online resources such as the IAWA Biographical Database and
host a growing number of faculty projects and VT publications.
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Digital Library Center: Digitized Juvenile Literature
Collection
http://diglib.lib.fsu.edu/ebind/docs/
This collection of full-text scanned images of over 30 children's books includes ABC books, holiday stories, and other examples of 19th century picture books. From Florida State University Libraries Special Collections. |
Digital Library of the Commons
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature
on the commons. This site contains an author-submission portal; an archive
of full-text articles, papers, and dissertations; the Comprehensive Bibliography
of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources
on the study of the commons. An Image Collection was recently added. |
Digital Preservation Tutorial
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/tutorial/dpm/
Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems: This "tutorial will introduce you to the basic tenets of digital preservation. It is particularly geared toward librarians, archivists, curators, managers, and technical specialists." Topics include terms and concepts, obsolescence, and challenges. Also includes a bibliography and a timeline dating back to 1950 that "highlights key events, projects, publications, and technological changes affecting the use of digital technology and efforts to preserve it." Searchable. From Cornell University Library. |
Digital Quaker Collection
http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/
DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The proprietary software developed for Earlham School of Religion provides multiple search functions and an interface for viewing pages.
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DSpace: MIT's online institutional repository
http://dspace.mit.edu/
MIT Research in digital form, including preprints, technical reports, working
papers, theses (over 14,000), conference papers, images, and more. Search,
or browse by communities/collections, titles, authors, subjects, or date. |
English Online Resources
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-on.html
Digital collections of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia:
"NOTE ABOUT ACCESS:
We provide free access to any texts that we can legally make publicly available.
These texts are not necessarily public domain. The texts that are restricted
to UVA or VIVA use are typically commercial products whose vendors place these
restrictions on us." Some collections that ARE available include: The
Modern English Collection (AD1500-present), 9575 titles; The Middle English
Collection, 65 titles; Shakespeare Resources; Religious Resources; Dictionary
of the History of Ideas; Special Collections electronic texts; British Poetry,
1780-1910; Documenting the African American Experience.
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GATT Digital Library
http://gatt.stanford.edu/page/home
"Welcome to the website of the GATT Digital Library. This site provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994.... Browse, search and view over 30,000 documents and publications of the GATT." |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources
(Library of Congress)
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html
World Libraries & Collections: Collaborative Digital Libraries (the bilingual,
multimedia digital libraries, built together with international partners); Individual
Digital Collections (a listing of the searchable Library of Congress and other
digital collections that focus on history and cultures around the world). Also
includes Links, Databases, & Resources. CDL's include France in America; The
Atlantic World: America in the Netherlands; Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska
and the American West; Parallel Histories: Spain, The United States, and the
American Frontier; United States and Brazil. IDC's include the topics: Cuneiform
Tablets; Islamic Manuscripts from Mali; Sir Francis Drake; Lewis Carroll Scrapbook;
Polish Declarations of Admiration for United States; Naxi Manuscripts; Arabic,
Persian and Ottoman Calligraphy; Hannah Arendt Papers; Am. Colonization Society
Maps of Liberia; Puerto Rico; Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures; Prints
& Photographs: Ottoman Empire, pre-Soviet Russia, Carpenter Collection on world
geography, Crimean War, Japan pre-1915, Spanish Civil War Posters, WW1 Posters,
Russia 1909-1915, world transportation 1894-1896. |
Historical Voices
http://www.historicalvoices.org/
The National Gallery
of the Spoken Word (NGSW) is an ongoing five year research project funded
under the Digital Library Initiative II spearheaded by the National Science
Foundation. The NGSW is creating an online fully-searchable digital library
of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century at HistoricalVoice.org.
NGSW provides storage for these digital holdings and public exhibit "space" for
the most evocative collections. Historical Voices displays public galleries
that cover a variety of interests and topics from Thomas Edison's first cylinder
recordings
and the voices of Babe Ruth and Florence Nightingale (Earliest
Voices 1877-1927; History and Politics
Out Loud)
to Studs
Terkel's timeless
interviews and the oral arguments of the US Supreme Court (Oyez
Project).
Each is given its own "site" and distinctive URL. |
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an
Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers,
historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has
been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999,
the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections.
Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software
as well as archived web pages in our collections." |
National Science Digital Library
http://www.nsdl.org/
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science
Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools
that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Search collections or
browse concept maps for science and mathematics education, by topic (education,
health, mathematics, science, social studies: anthropology, economics, geography,
history, psychology), or alphabetical list of collections. -- a VAST number
of collections. |
NYPL, Digital Library Collections
http://www.nypl.org/digital/
NYPL Digital is your gateway to The Library's rare and unique collections in
digitized form, including historic maps, rare prints and photographs, illuminated
manuscripts, unusual printed ephemera, sound files and moving images, original
art and more. NYPL Digital includes searchable databases like In Motion:
The African American Migration Experience and NYPL Digital Gallery,
online exhibitions such as Before Victoria, text from the Yizkor
(Holocaust Memorial) Books, and more. Browse complete list or collections
by topic. |
OAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources with an easy-to-use, searchable
interface; a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production
Service.
We provide access to these
digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records)
using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of electric refrigerators
from the Library of Congress American Memory project) to Harriet Beecher Stowe
memoirs (from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service
Making of America collection). These resources, often hidden from search engine
users behind web scripts, are known as the "deep web." The owners
of these resources share them with the world using OAI-PMH. After searching,
you can sort results or view by data contributor. |
Open Collections Program: Immigration to the
United States, 1789-1930
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection
of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and
museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing
of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. |
Open Collections Program: Women Working
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy
and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources
selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection
features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images. |
Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.
Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. Please use this form or e-mail to add entries, provide corrections, or make comments on its utility. Those who have recently submitted new and revised entries are acknowledged. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available. Compiled by Terry Abraham. |
Sears Archives Home Page
http://www.searsarchives.com/
Once again, Sears has made history. For the first time, Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside. More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories, photographs, catalog images are now available online. |
Studs Terkel: Conversations with America
http://www.studsterkel.org
A collection of interviews conducted by Studs Terkel for his books and for
his radio program, this gallery showcases the remarkable depth and diversity
of Studs Terkel's talents and provides an excellent model for those interested
in the methodology underlying oral history. [A Historical Voices Gallery
collection] |
Turning
the Pages--a feature of the British
Library Online Gallery (see other features below)
http://bllearning.co.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
"Turning the Pages, an award-winning interactive programme
developed by the British Library, allows users to virtually 'turn' pages,
zoom-in on high-quality digitised images and read or listen to notes explaining
the beauty and significance of each page. Turning the Pages™ uses the
Shockwave plug-in, which can be downloaded from the Adobe website, to simulate
the action of turning the pages of a real book. The volumes may not open
if you block popups on your computer." This amazing collection [and
I mean amazing!] includes Sketches by Leonardo, Mozart's Musical Diary,
Blake's Notebook, Masterpiece of the Renaissance, Jane Austen's Early Work
(History
of England), Outstanding 15th-Century Church Book, Pinnacle of Anglo-Saxon
Art, Flemish Masters in Miniature, Classical Botanical Illustration, Diamond
Sutra, Glorious Hebrew Prayer Book, The Original Alice, First Atlas of
Europe, Baybars' Magnificent Qur'an, Glimpses of Medieval Life, A Landmark
in Medical
History.
Other British Library Online Gallery features:
Images Online: a digital image collection, gives you instant access to thousands of images from the British Library’s unparalleled collections.
Online Gallery Features:
These feature articles explore ideas and historical events using the British Library’s collections as source material. Some are based on previous exhibitions held at our galleries.
Showcases: The British Library contains many millions of books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, patents, music scores, sound recordings, photographs and stamps. Choose a showcase to learn about some of the most important and beautiful books in the world or hear historic and unique sound recordings.
Highlights Tour: Here are just 15 wonderful treasures, chosen to show the range of our unique collections. You can read a brief description of an item, view an enlarged image and either find out more or move on to another treasure. You can begin wherever you like. Choose an image or link to begin your virtual tour.
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