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• - 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.
  
• - Texts in Farsi for major Persian authors and poets. Site is in English.
  
• - Materials related to South Asia, including maps, statistics, photographs, and official publications.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Collection includes photographs, books, drawings and artifacts. Site in English with French version under development.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Nonpartisan archive of social, political, economic and cultural documents pertaining to Iran. Edited by Frederick  Nemani, a professor at South Bank University, London.
  
• - Materials digitized by the university and links to materials available elsewhere.
  
• - 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
  
• - An evolving collection of resources for the study of the ancient world, including archaeology, atlas, texts and translations, text tools and lexica.
  
• - A collection of hundreds of short films in MPEG-2 format
  
• - Special collections at Case Western Reserve University, including medieval manuscripts and items from the US 1930s Works Projects Administration era.
  
• - Provides access to text, images, maps and audio collections as well as virtual exhibits. The site includes information on digitization projects and links to further resources.
  
• - Digital map collections at the University of California Santa Barbara.
  
• - Text, image, archive and local history collections. Site includes best practice guide and Digital Imaging Initiative project pages.
  
• - Special collection of over 225 texts and images covering local architecture, history and African American architects.
  
• - A searchable database of images from the Heritage Collection of the State Library of Tasmania, Australia.
  
• - 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 o
  
• - Contains digital links, artwork and information about the Celtic society from 400 B.C to 1500 A.D and Celtic Reconstruction of today.
  
• - 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 Digi
  
• - Electronic library with works from history, the social sciences, philosophy, literature, and religion. Fee required for access.
  
• - A collection of text, essays, and fiction written during the Victorian period, by women writers.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Links to subject-specific portals, databases, and link collections, as well as access to the catalogs and home pages of participating research libraries. Site in Danish or English, but many of the linked resources are in Danish only.
  
• - A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Collection of theses, dissertations, preprints, proceedings and full-text documents published in pdf format by staff and students of the University. Site also in German.
  
• - Provides access to multiple databases and millions of digital images of text, photographs and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Virginia.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Collection of written (PDF) and spoken (MP3) texts in several Turkic languages at Texas Tech University.
  
• - Atmospheric data collection focusing on data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program's Southern Great Plains (SGP) site, provided by the National Science Digital Library. The site includes an image archive and educational support material
  
• - Program information, resources, and access to digital collections.
  
• - 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 cu
  
• - Promotes the development of a growing collection of digital content for the University community and the State of Tennessee.
  
• - A 5-year project by the Internet Archive and the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab to develop a library using innovative software specifically for children.
  
• - A browsable and searchable digital library of materials for K-12 teachers and students.
  
• - A multilingual, open access and XML-based digital library offering texts and corpora in 36 languages from religions, humanities, and research.
  
• - Comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
  
• - Online bibliographical and image search service in Hebrew only, which also retains an "expert searcher" for locating online sources of information.
  
• - Collection of full-text electronic academic works related to Asian studies.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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, CiteSe
  
• - 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.
  
• - The welsh national collection of manuscripts, early and rare printed books, antiquarian maps, and diverse images at The National Library of Wales. Site includes online exhibitions and information about the digitisation program.
  
• - 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 ac
  
• - Information on this library consortium of shared digital collections.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Collection of texts and audio, including works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, Krylov, Esenin, Akhmatova and Chekhov provided by the Online Russian Language Center. Texts are available in Russian and English.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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, quizze
  
• - Collection of links and papers covering the interaction of mathematics and culture, with emphasis on the indigenous mathematics of the Pacific region.
  
• - Information and access to the digital collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Provides access to text, images, photographs, newspaper articles, audio and video collections as well as virtual exhibits. Bilingual site (Maori and English).
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - The public access interface of this online resource allows browsing or searching of university publications, including theses and the Mormon Studies Index.
  
• - An online library featuring fulltext journals from Academic Press and other scholarly publishers. Access by subscription.
  
• - 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, a
  
• - Collection of historical bridge design manuals, images and books from Lehigh University.
  
• - List of collections, and links to collections at various UW branches.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Provides public information for citizens of and visitors to Maryland, including resources for health, business, education, and history.
  
• - Access to the digital collections at Florida International University. Relates to the south Florida environment
  
• - 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.
  
• - Search, order and purchase items from the thousands of images from the library’s collections.
  
• - Online history scrapbook of Worthington, Ohio.
  
• - Promotes access to knowledge created at Simon Fraser University and makes some of the Library's unique holdings available to a wider audience.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Presents the collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. Highlights and database with images and backgrounds.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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 accommodat
  
• - Contains mainly religious and mythological books and texts with some multimedia files, using a bulletin board format.
  
• - Provides access to materials including including books, images and databases selected from Fish and Mammal Divisions of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and the Fungus Collections of the University of Michigan Herbarium.
  
• - Text, image, audio and special collections in the humanities and the arts.
  
• - Based at the University of Central England. Collections include past exam papers, book chapters, journal articles, student projects and a special collection on contemporary jewellery.
  
• - 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,
  
• - 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 fa
  
• - A portal to on-line dictionaries and reference works. Some emphasis on Malaysian society.
  
• - Collection includes 200 texts and maps pertaining to the history of 29 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.
  
• - 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), histori
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A University of Pennsylvania selection of digital library collections, exhibits, and finding aids prepared by digital librarians. Site includes information on tools and technology.