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list of digital libraryA digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks...
projects.
General collections
- AccessMyLibrary
AccessMyLibrary.com is a web based federated search product produced by Gale , which prefers to market the product as a "search engine", although it is more similar in technology and results to a portal or metasearch engine. It is marketed as providing community-wide access to Thomson databases and...
- AJOL
African Journals OnLine is a non-profit organisation that increases the online visibility of and access to African-origin scholarly research output...
- African Journals OnLine - free multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed, African-published academic journals.
- Arts and Humanities Data Service
The Arts and Humanities Data Service was a United Kingdom national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities...
- Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities
- Bookshare
Bookshare is an online accessible digital library for print disabled readers. In 2007, it received a grant of $32 million from the US Government's Office of Special Education Programs to make the service available for free to all print disabled students in the US...
- a library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to print disabled members. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books in the collection
- British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is located in London and is one of the world's largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats; books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents,...
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
- DELOS
DELOS is a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries partially funded until the end of 2007 by the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme within the Information Society Technologies Programme...
- European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
- Digital Library of Georgia
The Digital Library of Georgia is an online, public collection of documents and media about the history and culture of the state of Georgia. The collection includes more than 500,000 digitized items from more than 100 Georgia-related collections...
- Digital Mechanism and Gear Library
- DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals lists open access journals, that is, scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer review or editorial quality control and are free to all from the time of publication based on the Budapest Open Access Initiative ...
- The European Library
- Free in India Books - A collection of Indian libraries of Free Books
- Greenstone (software)
- Google Book Search
Google Book Search is a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October...
- Higher intellect project
The higher intellect project, also known as preterhuman.net, is one of the larger freely accessible collections of text files and books. The archive consists of over 250,000 text files in a 100GB database. The project is entirely non-profit and is funded only by donations from its users and...
- 250,000+ texts on a variety of subjects
- ibiblio
ibiblio is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source software, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. As an "Internet librarianship," ibiblio is a digital library and archive...
- Indiana University
Indiana University, founded in 1820 as the Indiana State Seminary and renamed the Indiana College in 1846, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana...
Digital Library Program
- The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the World Wide Web....
- JournalServer
JournalServer is an Oxford-based international initiative to create a digital library of academic journals freely available to the public. It involves the collaboration of several leading universities across the world....
- an international initiative to create a free digital library of academic journals
- JSTOR
JSTOR is a United States-based online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions.JSTOR was originally funded by the Andrew W...
- page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text.
- Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
Within the framework of Scientific Libraries Consortium of Kujawsko-Pomorski Region, Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń has started a long-term enterprise of building a digital library called Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library. The project implementation was financed by EU Structural...
- Library of Congress Digital Library project
The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program is assembling a digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States...
- Making of America
Making of America is a digital archive hosted by Cornell University and the University of Michigan. The Making of America collection at the University of Michigan consists primarily of books published in the United States between 1850 and 1877. The Making of America collection at Cornell contains...
collections
- Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage
Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage is a collaborative, statewide digitization program. Headquartered at the Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center in Baltimore, the program partners with Maryland libraries, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions to digitize...
- Michael
MICHAEL stands for Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe. This web portal is offering simple and quick access to the rich variety of digital collections from museums, libraries and archives in different European countries....
: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe is a project funded by the European Commission to give access to digital collections in European archives, museums and libraries.
- Michigan Digitization Project
The Michigan Digitization Project is a project in partnership with Google books to digitize the entire print collection of the University of Michigan Library. The digitized collection, called MBooks, is searchable in the University of Michigan library catalog, , as well as in Google Book Search...
- The Million Book Project
The Million Book Project , led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries, aims to digitize a million books by 2007...
aims to digitise a million public domain books by 2007.
- National Academies Press
National Academies Press was created by the United States National Academies, to publish the reports issued by the United States National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Research Council. It publishes nearly 200 books a year on...
as of June 2006 had more than 3600 books freely available in open access formats
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is a national strategic program being led by the Library of Congress to preserve digital content. The program was mandated in 2000 by the U.S...
- National Library for the Blind
The National Library for the Blind was a public library in the United Kingdom, founded 1882, which aimed to ensure that people with sight problems have the same access to library services as sighted people. NLB merged with RNIB on 1 January 2007....
- The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of the United States's most significant research libraries. It is composed of a very large circulating public library system combined with a very large non-lending research library system...
NYPL Digital Gallery
- The Northern California Digital Library
- The OSU Library Electronic Publishing Center
- Online Book Initiative
- The Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet. It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and is hosted by the library of the University of Pennsylvania...
- while not a digital library itself, provides an extensive list of digital book available online.
- Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is a knowledge repository of the traditional knowledge. Setup by the Indian government, the objective of this library is to protect the ancient and traditional knowledge of the country from exploitation such as bio-piracy and unethical patents.Data on 80,000...
- 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 monopolizationThe term monopolization refers to an offense under Section 2 of the American Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890. Section 2 states that any person "who shall monopolize . ....
- Online Text Library of the University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a public research university located in Austin, Texas, United States, and is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. The main campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol...
- Open Content Alliance
The Open Content Alliance is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others...
- Open Library
Open Library is a project designed to create a comprehensive online database of books. It is a project of the Internet Archive. Aaron Swartz is the leader of the Open Library's technical team....
isn't technically a library, just a database of books.
- Open University
The Open University is the distance learning university founded and funded by the UK Government. It is notable for having an open entry policy, i.e. students' previous academic achievements are not taken into account for entry to most undergraduate courses...
Library
- Oxford Text Archive
Oxford Text Archive is an archive of electronic texts and other literary and language resources which have been created, collected and distributed for the purpose of research into literary and linguistic topics. The OTA was founded by Lou Burnard of Oxford University in 1976, and is thought to be...
- Pandora Archive
PANDORA - Australia's Web Archive is the national web archive for the preservation of Australia's online publications. It was established by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and is now built in collaboration with a number of other Australian state libraries and cultural collecting...
- Perseus Project
The Perseus Project is a digital library project of Tufts University that assembles digital collections of humanities resources. It is hosted by the Department of Classics. It suffers, unfortunately, from very frequent computer hardware problems, and because of this its resources are often...
- Project Gutenberg Australia
Project Gutenberg of Australia, abbreviated as PGA, is an Internet site which was founded in 2001 by Colin Choat. The site hosts free ebooks or e-texts which are in the public domain in Australia. The ebooks have been prepared and submitted by volunteers...
is an associate to PG, providing texts under Australian copyright lawAustralian copyright law emerged from British and colonial models of the early 20th Century. It reflects international standards found in the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, other multilateral treaties, and more recently, the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement...
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- Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain...
- founded by Michael HartMichael Stern Hart is an American best known as the founder of Project Gutenberg which makes electronic books freely available via the Internet. At least one version of each book is a plain text file that can be displayed on virtually any computer. Most of the early postings were typed in...
in 1971, was the first project to create a library of freely available online texts.
- Project Noolaham
Project Noolaham is a project to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works related to Tamils. As of end of 2008 it has over 2500 items digitalized. It in multi – national effort, which focus on preserving and sharing Tamil publications primarily from Sri Lanka. It is a non profit effort,...
- Questia Online Library
Questia is an online commercial digital library of books and articles with an academic orientation. It claims to be "the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences.". The great majority of items are under copyright, for which Questia has...
- Rare Book Room
Rare Book Room is an educational website for the repository of digitally scanned rare books made freely available to the public.Starting around 1996 the California based company Octavo began scanning rare and important books from libraries around the world. These scans were done at extremely high...
- The Rubicon Research Repository is a digital collection of environmental physiology
Physiology is the science of the functioning of living systems. It is a subcategory of biology...
documents.
- The Text Creation Partnership
The Text Creation Partnership is a not-for-profit organization based in the library of the University of Michigan since 2000. Its purpose is to produce large-scale full-text electronic resources on behalf of both member institutions and scholarly publishers, under an arrangement calculated to...
's three collections (EEBO/TCP, ECCO/TCP, Evans/TCP)
- TIDES (Teaching, Images & Digital Experiences)
- UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC)
- Universal Digital Library
- The University of Michigan Library Digital Library Production Service
The University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service is a department of the University of Michigan University Library. It is responsible for digitizing parts of the library collection, and for digital library software called . DLPS Projects include:* OAIster* Text Creation Partnership*...
- The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
The University of Wisconsin System is a university system of public universities in the state of Wisconsin. It is one of the largest public higher education systems in the country, enrolling more than 173,000 students each year and employing more than 28,500 faculty and staff statewide...
- vascoda
vascoda is a German web portal which offers access to scientific information in various disciplines. The name vascoda is often associated with the medieval explorer Vasco da Gama, as this implies the connotation of navigating the sea of information. Initially, though, “vascoda“ is a made-up word...
: German internet-portal for scientific and scholarly information, offering interdisciplinary and subject-specific search
- Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore, India
- Virtually Missouri
The Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative is a collaborative effort that expands the amount of information available online about Missouri’s past. In 2007, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan proposed this landmark initiative to further Missourians’ access to information about the history of Missouri...
- Digital collections from Missouri libraries, museums, and cultural institutions
- Welsh Journals Online at the National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales is the national legal deposit library of Wales, located in Aberystwyth. It is one of the Assembly Government Sponsored Bodies....
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library
The World Wide Web Virtual Library was the first index of content on the World Wide Web and still operates as a directory of e-texts and information sources on the web. It was started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva...
- Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a Wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.-History:...
is a digital library of new books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
- Wikisource
Wikisource is an online library of free content textual sources, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to harbour all forms of free text, in many languages...
is a digital library of out of copyright books edited in a similar way to Wikipedia.
- Wired for Books
Wired for Books is an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The website features author interviews, dramatic audio productions of classic literature, readings of poetry, short stories, lectures, essays, and children's literature.Nearly...
A project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University.
- World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide...
, by the Library of Congress
Computer ScienceComputer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform...
- CiteSeer
CiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. It is being replaced by CiteSeerx. It was created by researchers Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker and Lee Giles while they were at the NEC Research Institute , Princeton, New Jersey, USA...
: A Scientific Literature Digital Library now hosted at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University]
- DBLP
DBLP is a computer science bibliography website hosted at Universität Trier, in Germany. It was originally a database and logic programming bibliography site, and has existed at least since the 1980s. DBLP listed more than one million articles on computer science in March 2008...
Digital Bibliography and Library Project, hosted in Germany
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies is one of the oldest bibliography collections freely accessible on the Internet. It is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science and mathematics from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science...
Economics
- Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund, Inc., is a private, Libertarian, educational foundation presently headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. It was founded in 1960 by Pierre F. Goodrich, an Indianapolis businessman and lawyer, to pursue his personal vision of "the ideal of a society of free and responsible...
's Library of Economics and LibertyThe Library of Economics and Liberty is a free online library of economics books and articles and is sponsored by Liberty Fund, a non-profit organization...
- Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty
Fine Arts
- Dada Library
- Journals at Artsource
- Mary Reynolds Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, The Art Institute of Chicago. Providing degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels, SAIC...
- Michigan State University Fine Arts Library
GovernmentA government is the body within a community, political entity or organization which has the authority to make and enforce rules, laws and regulations.....
and PoliticsPolitics is a process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic and religious institutions...
- American Government Document Search Tools
- The Anarchist Library
- Spunk Anarchist Library
- The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project is the name of Yale Law School's digital library of Documents relating to Law, History and Diplomacy.The project contains online electronic copies of documents dating back over the past two thousand years and so it possible to study the original text of not only very famous...
- Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- Marxists Internet Archive
Marxists Internet Archive is a volunteer based non-profit organization that maintains a multi-lingual Internet archive of Marxist writers and other similar authors...
- Marx and Engels Internet Archive
- J. V. Stalin Internet Library
- The Mondo Politico Library
- BOPCRIS - the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995
- People in Action http://www.peopleinaction.info/onlinebooks/
HistoryHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
- European NAvigator
European NAvigator is a web-site about the history of Europe and its institutions since 1945 focusing on the development of a united Europe.Using the site is free, although the documents are protected by copyright....
- First Digital Library on the history of a united Europe.
- On This Day
On This Day is the name of a BBC news archive on the World Wide Web. It contains an online digital library of news stories reported by the BBC on World War II and world events from the 1950s to 2005. There are entries for every day of the year, many including video or audio reports which can be...
- Cornell University Library
The Cornell University Library is the library system of Cornell University. In 2005 it held 7.5 million printed volumes in open stacks, 8.2 million microfilms and microfiches, and a total of 440,000 maps, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recordings, and computer files in its collections, in addition to...
Windows on the Past
- Internet History Sourcebooks http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
- The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project is the name of Yale Law School's digital library of Documents relating to Law, History and Diplomacy.The project contains online electronic copies of documents dating back over the past two thousand years and so it possible to study the original text of not only very famous...
- Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars...
Portal http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/
- British History Online Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
- Carrie
Carrie is an online digital library project based at the University of Kansas containing full-text books and documents. The site became operational in 1993, and has the distinction of being among the first university-library hosted sites for full on-line texts. The site, named after the...
an early full text electronic library
- Cleveland Memory Project (CMP) http://www.ClevelandMemory.org - on-line resources about the history of Cleveland, Ohio and Northeast Ohio.
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History is a digital history portal that offers links to online facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations of European primary historical sources. The sponsoring organization is the Harold B...
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections (American Civil War)http://library.hamilton.edu/collections/
- Hanover Historical Texts Project - http://history.hanover.edu/project.html
- Historical Text Archive
- The Kansas Collection
- Marin County Free Library California Room Digital Archive - Oral histories with audio clips, digital photograph albums on Marin County and Bay Area history, Frank Lloyd Wright resources, and more
- New England Historic Photographs Archive
The New England Historic Photographs Archive is a project started by the Brattleboro Historical Society of Brattleboro, Vermont, USA. It aims to provide a comprehensive collection of historic images from the New England area.- External links :*...
- A searchable archive of glass plate historic photographs from the New England area in the USA.
- Ohio's Heritage Northeast (OHNE) http://www.OhiosHeritageNortheast.org - searches the on-line local history projects of six participating libraries in Northeast Ohio.
- The Portal to Texas History Embark on a voyage of discovery . . .
- Historion
- Wisconsin Heritage Online
Wisconsin Heritage Online is an expanding digital collection, featuring documentary sources and material culture from Wisconsin libraries, archives, and museums. The collections in this portal are contributed by cultural heritage organizations throughout Wisconsin. Click on Content Providers for...
http://wisconsinheritage.org, a collaborative statewide portal to Wisconsin's history.
- Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image - various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music
- TIDES (Teaching, Images & Digital Experiences) Specializes in historic and cultural resources from East Texas, including documents, maps and photographs.
Homeland SecurityHomeland security is an umbrella term for security efforts to protect the United States against perceived internal and external threats. The term arose following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security after the September...
HumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences....
and Social SciencesThe social sciences are the fields of scientific knowledge and academic scholarship that study social groups and, more generally, human society. The social sciences initially were constituted of five fields: Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law; Education; Health; Economy and Trade; Art...
- Humanities Text Collection from University of Michigan
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public research university located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university, the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, and one of the top public universities in the world...
http://www.hti.umich.edu/
- Humbul Humanities Hub, See Humbul
Humbul was an online service that reviewed and catalogued websites of interest to academics and students in the humanities. It was founded as a humanities communications service in 1985...
- British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars...
Portal http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/
- Voice of the Shuttle (Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara)
Human RightsHuman rights refer to the "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the...
- Project Diana
Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana - goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon - was a project of the US Army Signal Corps to bounce radio signals off the moon and receive the reflected signals. Today called EME , this was the first attempt to "touch" another celestial body...
- Online Human Rights Archive http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/index.html
Indian Digital Library
IndiaIndia, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
n Digital Library (lakshman)
Islamic libraries
- Al-Islam.org Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP) is the largest Islamic digital library on the Internet, hosting 4500+ resources.
LanguageA language is a system for encoding and decoding information. In its most common use, the term refers to so-called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. In linguistics the term is extended to refer to the human cognitive facility of creating and using...
ArabicArabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...
Marefa digitizes Arabic classics and classics of other languages that are written in Arabic script.
Sooran دانلود كتاب و نرم افزار
Receive educational book Arabic and Persian
ChineseChinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of languages mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL): Edward Hunter (1902-1978) collection
- Chinese Text Project - Early (pre-Qin and Han) Chinese texts
DutchDutch is a West Germanic language spoken by over 22 million people as a native language, and over 5 million people as a second language.
"1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language...
Language Libraries
Literature
Essays and articles
Newspapers
Media
Digitization projects
Early EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
Language Libraries
- EEBO - Early English Books Online
French LanguageFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
Libraries
- l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels
L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels is a French language organization dedicated to producing e-text versions of public domain French texts...
digitizes FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
texts in the public domainThe public domain is a range of abstract materials—commonly referred to as intellectual property—which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose...
. ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
- Europeana
Europeana is a search platform to a collection of European digital libraries with digitised paintings, books, films and archives. The project was initiated by the European Commission....
- French contribution to the European Digital Library
- Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/ - French digital library
- Bibliotheq.net
- Cyberlibris Famili
- Cyberlibris Academia
- Cyberlibris Cognito
German languageGerman is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by...
Libraries
- University Library at Brunswick
Braunschweig , known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245,810 people , located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser...
, Lower SaxonyLower Saxony lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen Bundesländer of Germany...
- Dandelon.com http://www.dandelon.com - crosslingual, semantic retrieval
- DigBib.Org http://www.digbib.org/ - a small collection of freely available literature in the German language
- e-text.org
- University of Göttingen http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/index.html
- Austrian literature online
- Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Projekt Gutenberg-DE is a collection of German language literary texts, distributed via the web and on CD-ROM. It is run by a small publishing company called Hille Partner, run by Gunter Hille, and its web presence is hosted by the weekly magazine Der Spiegel....
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/
- zeno.org
Zeno.org is a digital library with German texts and other content such as pictures, facsimile, etc., which has been started by the Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, a German publishing house and sister enterprise of Directmedia Publishing GmbH. The content is based on the digital libraries from the...
http://www.zeno.org/
- Sophie
Sophie is a digital library and resource center for works produced by German-speaking women, 1740-1939.Resources available at the site include literary and journalistic texts , musical scores and recordings, screenplays and dramas, and a collection of colonial/travel texts...
http://sophie.byu.edu
GermanicThe Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
language Libraries
GreekGreek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical...
Language Libraries
Hebrew Language Libraries
- Project Ben-Yehuda
Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make accessible the classics of Hebrew literature to the reader of Hebrew. It is named for Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the scholar largely responsible for reviving Hebrew as a modern language. For that purpose, the literary works are converted to a format that is readable and...
digitizes HebrewHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Culturally, it is considered a Jewish language. Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel while Classical Hebrew has been used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world for over...
classics.
Hungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries...
libraries
IndonesianIndonesian is the official national language of Indonesia. It is based on a version of Classical Malay of the Riau-Johor Sultanate. It was first declared the official language with the declaration of Indonesian independence in 1945, following the 1928 unifying-language declaration in the...
Digital Library Network
Italian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City...
libraries
- Biblioteca Italiana http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/
- Progetto Manuzio hosts over 900 public-domain texts
- Italian Women Writers at the University of Chicago
- E-Biblioteca hosts over 2.000 public-domain texts
- http://www.opal.unito.it online public access library of early printed books
Japanese Languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family. There are a number of proposed relationships with other languages, but none have gained general acceptance...
Libraries
- Aozora Bunko
Aozora Bunko Aozora Bunko Aozora Bunko , is a Japanese digital library. This on-line collection encompasses several thousands of works of Japanese-language fiction and non-fiction...
digitized Japanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family. There are a number of proposed relationships with other languages, but none have gained general acceptance...
texts.
- Project Sugita Genpaku
Project Sugita Genpaku is a project that aims to translate free content texts into Japanese. Translated texts are distributed under an open source-like licence...
translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.
LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
Language Libraries
Latvian LanguageLatvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
Libraries
Middle English Language Libraries
Nordic languages libraries
- Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after Project Gutenberg that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. The Project began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992, but today also has graphical...
is a project for the Nordic language texts, started in 1992.
- Vifanord Virtual library about the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
and the Baltic countriesThe Baltic states , Baltic Nations or Baltic countries are three countries in Northern Europe, all members of the European Union: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
(by the universities of Greifswald, Göttingen, and KielThe University of Kiel is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today...
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Persian LanguagePersian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is widely spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and to some extent in Iraq and Bahrain, and has a status of official language in the first three countries under different names...
Libraries
- irexpert- the speciality e-book library for download the textbook and specially book
- national library and archives of iran - national library of iran
The National Library of Iran is located in Tehran, Iran, with several branches are scattered throughout the city.Prior to the library's official inauguration in 1937, other libraries existed that performed the same function informally. The first prototype of a national library in Iran was the...
is the greatest library in Iran.
- ir ebooks - the digital library of "Omide-iran".
- ganjoor - this is the project of Persian poet and online book.
- lecture book - Persian textbook from primary school to high school for download.
Receive educational book Arabic and Persian
Polish LanguagePolish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet which corresponds basically to the Latin alphabet with a few additions...
Libraries
Portuguese LanguagePortuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
Libraries
- Biblioteca Nacional Digital
- Biblioteca Nacional Digital
- Biblioteca Digital Camões
- Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante de Língua Portuguesa digitizes Portuguese
Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
texts in the public domainThe public domain is a range of abstract materials—commonly referred to as intellectual property—which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose...
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- Biblioteca Digital de Literatura e História Literária digitizes Portuguese
Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
texts in the public domainThe public domain is a range of abstract materials—commonly referred to as intellectual property—which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose...
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- Biblioteca Digital de Obras Raras digitizes Portuguese
Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
texts in the public domainThe public domain is a range of abstract materials—commonly referred to as intellectual property—which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose...
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- Domínio Público
Domínio Público is a Digital library created by the Brazilian government, under the Secretaria de Educação à Distância do Ministério da Educação , with the goal of harnessing the diffusion of cultural works under public domain...
Russian Language Libraries
Spanish languageSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
libraries
Tamil LanguageTamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia, Mauritius and Réunion as well as emigrant communities around the world...
Libraries
LawLaw is a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a primary social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus ticket to trading on derivatives markets...
- The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project is the name of Yale Law School's digital library of Documents relating to Law, History and Diplomacy.The project contains online electronic copies of documents dating back over the past two thousand years and so it possible to study the original text of not only very famous...
- Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
- British Academy Portal - Law
LibraryA library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. It can mean the collection,...
and Information ScienceInformation science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
General Literature Sites
Children's LiteratureChildren's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century...
Classical Literature
Fan FictionFan fiction is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator...
GothicGothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizable corpus...
PoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
Science FictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction. It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically-established or scientifically-postulated laws of nature...
Viking Literature
Women Writers
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- James Allen
James Allen was a philosophical writer of British nationality known for his inspirational books and poetry.- Background :...
- The James Allen Free Library
- Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech, have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature....
- The Republic of Pemberley
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- William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the...
- The William Blake Archive
- The Brontë
The Brontë sisters , Charlotte , Emily and Anne , were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s...
s - The Brontë Sisters Web
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
- ERBmania!
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- Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer...
- The Lewis Carroll Home Page
- Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, often considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature and is regularly regarded among the best novels ever written. His work is considered among the most important in all...
- The Cervantes Project
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales...
- The Chaucer MetaPage
- Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as...
- ZNet's Noam Chomsky Archive
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- Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.In...
- Digital Dante, Renaissance Dante in Print, The World of Dante
- Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print...
- The Dickens Page
- Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print...
- Complete Works of Charles Dickens in E-book formats
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s...
- Watershed Online: Emerson: A Visionary Life
- Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. Together they produced The Communist Manifesto in 1848...
- Marx and Engels Internet Archivewww.marxists.org/archive/marx/
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- Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is a British theoretical physicist. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes...
- Professor Stephen Hawking's website
- Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
- Victor Hugo Central
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- Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.-Biography:Jewett's family had been residents of New England for many...
- The Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project
- James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish expatriate author, playwright and poet of the 20th century. He is known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of...
- Joycean.org
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- Baroness Orczy
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel...
- Blakeney Manor
- George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist...
- Political Writings of George Orwell
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- Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.-Life:Rafael Sabatini was born in Jesi, Italy, to an English mother and Italian father...
- The Life and Work of Rafael Sabatini
- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare Literature, The Internet Shakespeare Editions
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K...
- The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
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- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet...
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poetry Archive
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
Charlotte Mary Yonge , was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.-Life:Charlotte Mary Yonge was born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, on 11 August 1823 to William Yonge and Fanny Yonge, née Bargus. She was educated at home by her father, studying Latin, Greek,...
- The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship
Materials Science
MathematicsMathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....
MedicineMedicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
MysticismMysticism is the pursuit of communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight. Mysticism usually centers on a practice or practices intended to nurture those experiences or...
MusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
NanotechnologyNanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.Nanotechnology is very diverse,...
AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the...
The AmericasThe Americas, or America, are lands in the Western hemisphere or New World, comprising the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. America may be ambiguous in English, as it is more commonly used to refer to the United States of America...
AsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...
AustralasiaAustralasia is a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes . He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the...
and OceaniaOceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Dumont d'Urville...
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
PhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned...
PhysicsPhysics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
- ArXiv
The arXiv is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics which can be accessed via the world wide web. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are placed on...
- Los Alamos Research Library
- Physics at NIST
Psychology
ReligionA religion is a system of human thought which usually includes a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, deity or deities, or ultimate truth...
- Al-Islam.org Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP) is the largest Islamic digital library on the Internet, hosting 4500+ resources.
- Avesta -- Zoroastrian Archives
- British Academy Portal - Theology and Religious Studies
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library that provides free electronic copies of Christian scripture and literature texts....
http://www.ccel.org/ focuses on making text available of ChristianChristianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented by the revelations in the New Testament....
literature.
- The Digital Christian Library
- Digital Quaker Collection at Earlham College provides access to 17th and 18th century Quaker journals, letters, and monographs
- Grace Online Library
- Hinduism and Vedanta
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
- Infidels - Secular Web Library
- Internet Christian Library
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
The Internet Sacred Text Archive is a website dedicated to the preservation of electronic public domain texts, specifically those with significant cultural value...
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
- Jain eLibrary
- Kabbalah Digital Library one of the largest multi-language collections of ancient and modern Kabbalistic writings
- The Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Center - works related to ThomismThomism is the philosophical school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas. The word comes from the name of its originator, whose Summa Theologica is arguably second only to the Bible in importance to the Roman Catholic Church...
. http://www.nd.edu/~maritain/
- The Nag Hammadi
Nag Hammadi , is a city in Upper Egypt. Nag Hammadi was known as Chenoboskion in classical antiquity, meaning "geese grazing grounds". It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Qena Governorate, about 80 kilometres north-west of Luxor.It has a population of about 30,000, who are mostly...
Library http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/naghamm/nhl.html
- Seminary Library Christian theological reference works
- Theravada Buddhist Text Archives
- Theravada Buddhist texts
ResearchResearch can be defined to be search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of...
ScienceScience is in its broadest sense to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome...
Serbian Libraries
- Project Rastko
Project Rastko - Internet Library of Serb Culture is a non-profit and non-governmental publishing, cultural and educational project dedicated to Serb and Serb-related arts and humanities...
http://www.rastko.org.rs publishes SerbianSerbian is a South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and in the Serbian diaspora...
and Serbian-related digital material, both in public domainThe public domain is a range of abstract materials—commonly referred to as intellectual property—which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose...
and copyrightCopyright is a form of intellectual property that gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which time the work is said to enter the public domain...
ed.
Social AnthropologySocial anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular people: customs, economic and...
and GeographyGeography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
SociologySociology is the scientific or systematic study of human societies. It is a branch of social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, often with the goal of applying such...
, DemographyDemography is the statistical study of all populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic population, that is, one that changes over time or space...
and Social StudiesSocial studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the National Council for the Social Studies...
Sports
- NCAA sports rulebooks online NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
- Flapédia wiki project about Flamengo
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo is a Brazilian multisport club located in Rio de Janeiro.Despite not being the club's official name, Flamengo has become the term used by most to refer not just to the football team, but also the entire sporting association...
the most popular soccer club in BrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...
TechnologyTechnology is a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment...
TheosophyTheosophy is a doctrine of religious philosophy and metaphysics. Theosophy holds that all religions are attempts by the "Spiritual Hierarchy" to help humanity in evolving to greater perfection, and that each religion therefore has a portion of the truth...
Urdu Literature
Kitaab Ghar; Digital Library of Free Urdu Books
kitaabghar.com is a growing collection of free Urdu books, most of them are available to download and offline reading. It has variety of books, mostly novels and afsanays (short stories).
Women
SearchA web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data...
es and Meta-Indices
Search Journals and Magazines
See also
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