This is a list of digital library projects.
Name Subject(s) Volumes Description Provider(s) Ref.Access to InsightTheravada BuddhismProvides translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest TraditionBarre Center for Buddhist StudiesAhlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP)Shia IslamDigitizes and presents resources related to history, law, and society of the Islamic religion and its personalities with particular emphasis on the Twelver Shi'ah Islamic school of thoughtAhlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library ProjectAozora BunkoJapanese languageDigitized Japanese language textsAozora BunkoArnetminerComputer science and information scienceA free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua UniversityArnetminerArts and Humanities Data ServiceArts and humanitiesImages, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities. Ceased operation in 2008.King's College LondonArXivScience and mathematicsPreprints in mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statisticsCornell UniversityFrench literatureDigitizes French texts in the public domainAtoll Digital LibraryGeneralOpen source software for building digital library collectionsAtoll Digital LibraryAustralian Islamic LibraryTafsir, hadith, fiqh, Usool and Islamic ScholarshipSunni School of thoughtHosts over 35 classical and contemporary exegeses of the Quran, all major books of hadith, a large number of books on biographies of early Muslims and many other related titles. The library serves an international audience and offers books in numerous international languages.Australian Islamic LibraryAvalon ProjectLegal studies and historyDocuments in law, history and diplomacyYale Law SchoolBaen Free LibraryScience fiction and fantasyScience fiction and fantasy from publishing house Baen BooksBaen BooksBartleby.comLiterature, reference and verseLiterature, reference and verseBartleby.comBiblioteca Digital HispánicaGeneralLiterature, pictures, records, memorabiliaBiodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)Natural history, botany, zoology112,000+ volumes; 40+ million pagesAn open access digital library for biodiversity literature. BHL operates as a consortium of natural history and botanical institutions around the world that cooperate to digitize the natural history literature in their collections and make it openly available through their website.BHL Member InstitutionsBIVALDI – Valencian Digital LibraryBIVALDI – Valencian Digital LibraryGeneral1.2+ million digital objectsA wide variety of heritage digital collectionsValencian LibraryBookshareGeneral42,000+A library serving accessible books (DAISY and BRF) to people with print disabilities. Currently over 42,000 popular and educational books are in the collection.BenetechNorwegian books500+Classical Norwegian books.National Library of NorwayBritish Columbia Digital LibraryGeneralA digital library that links many academic digital library collections around British ColumbiaBritish Columbia Electronic Library NetworkBritish History OnlineHistoryCore printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British IslesInstitute of Historical Research, the History of Parliament Trust, and the University of LondonBritish Library Online GalleryGeneralThe British Library's online gallery provides online access to a wide variety of its materials.British LibraryCalifornia Digital LibraryCanadiana OnlineHistory of Canada60,000,000+ pagesCanadian historical primary sources, including books, newspapers, periodicals, and nationally significant archival materialCanadiana.orgCarrieAn early full text electronic libraryCatálogo de libros de texto de educación básica en México ciclo escolar 2025–2026Textbooks used in Mexico891Textbooks used in Mexico in preschool, primary, secondary and high school education in 2025–2026Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto GratuitosCatálogo Histórico de libros de primaria en México 1960–2019Historic textbooks used in Mexico 1960–2019354Historic textbooks used in Mexico in primary education from 1960 to 2019Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto GratuitosCenter for Research LibrariesGeneralCRL: Edward Hunter (1902–1978) collectionCenter for the Study of New Testament ManuscriptsNew Testament manuscriptsPreserve and study New Testament manuscriptscsntm.orgCERN Document ServerScienceElectronic library for CERN related documentsCERNChinese Text ProjectChinese classic textsElectronic library of early Chinese textsChinese Text ProjectChoral Public Domain LibraryChristian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Catholic, and Protestant scholarship1,393 volumes, 440 authorsDigital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education, including some Greek and Roman classics. CCEL texts are stored in the library's own Theological Markup Language, which is an XML application. Texts are converted into other formats as well, such as HTML or PDF.CiteSeerXComputer science and information scienceA scientific literature digital library and search engine hosted at Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State UniversityPennsylvania State UniversityCivil Rights Litigation ClearinghouseCivil rightsThe Collection of Computer Science BibliographiesThe Complete Works of Charles Darwin OnlineBiologyCornell University Library Windows on the PastThe Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeAssyriology, history, archaeology320,000+Safekeeping and curating information about and images of over 320,000 objects inscribed with cuneiform textUniversity of California, Los AngelesD-Scribe Digital PublishingVarious academic100,000+Over 100 thematic collections that together contain over 100,000 digital objects of various academic interests, including almost 800 out-of-print titles from the University of Pittsburgh PressUniversity of PittsburghDarakht-e Danesh Library (DDL)GeneralLibrary of open educational resources for AfghanistanCanadian Women for Women in AfghanistanThe Dead Sea Scrolls Digital LibraryDead Sea ScrollsDigitized Dead Sea ScrollsLeon Levy Foundation via the Israel Antiquities AuthorityDigital Accounting CollectionAccountingDigital Bibliography and Library ProjectDigital CicognaraEarly literature of art, Leopoldo CicognaraDigitized books from the Cicognara LibraryDigital Cicognara PartnersDigital Comic MuseumComic booksThousands of freely downloadable public domain Golden Age comics which are not under copyrightDigital Comic Museum websiteDigital HimalayaHimalayasDigital Library for Dutch literatureGovernment-funded digital library projectDigital Library of the CaribbeanCaribbean studieshttps://www.dloc.com/Digital Library of GeorgiaGeneralDigital Library of India325,473Digital Media RepositoryArts and humanities, Middletown studiesBall State UniversityDigital Public Library of AmericaGeneral49,602,373Digital South Asia LibrarySouth AsiaMaterials for reference and research on South AsiaUniversity of ChicagoDirectory of Open Access JournalsGeneralDiscover York Digital LibraryDiscover York Digital LibraryYork, United KingdomDigitised collections from the University of York Library and Borthwick Institute for Archives supporting research, teaching and engagement developed by the Library Digital Technology and Innovation teamUniversity of YorkDiscusSouth Carolina, United StatesProvides several reliable sources exclusively for school and state libraries in South CarolinaSouth Carolina State LibraryDistributed Proofreaders CanadaToronto, Ontario, Canada3,000 books (approximate)Volunteer initiative to convert books in the Canadian public domain to readable electronic formatsDomínio PúblicoEBBA (English Broadside Ballad Archive)English literature, English broadside balladsOver 7,000 ballads from libraries worldwide archivedOnline digital archive of primarily 17th-century English broadside ballads, digitized into multiple accessible formats for scholars and members of the general publicEnglish Broadside Ballad Archive and University of California, Santa Barbara eBooks@AdelaideClassic works including literature, philosophy, science, religion and historyFree ebooks collections , cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2017.A collection of free ebook editions of significant works from the pastUniversity of AdelaideEEBO – Early English Books OnlineeGranary Digital LibraryEducational resources from over 3,000 websites and hundreds of CD-ROMs35,000,000+ resourcesAn offline digital library for communities with inadequate Internet bandwidth, i.e., developing countries, rural schools, prisons. Over 35 million resources in every format: books, journals, websites, video, audio, software, multimedia. Includes tools for patrons to create, upload, share, and archive their own content. Has built-in search tools and Web 2.0 services like Moodle, WordPress and Drupal.The WiderNet Project, a service program of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian LiteratureSumeriology, history, archaeologyMaking accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BCUniversity of OxfordEuroDocs: Online Sources for European HistoryEuropean history for over 50 countriesFacsimiles, transcriptions and translations of primary European historical documentsBrigham Young University's Harold B. Lee LibraryThe European Digital Mathematics Library (EUDML)MathematicsGroups and distributes European scientific publications on mathematicsThe European LibraryGeneralActive until 2016, then merged into EuropeanaEuropean NavigatorFirst digital library on the history of a united EuropeEuropeana10,000,000+ digital objectsLinking archives, libraries, museums and audio-visual material from across EuropeFRASEREconomicsA digital library of economic, financial and banking materials covering the economic history of the United StatesFederal Reserve Bank of St. LouisGallicaGeneral10,000,000+French digital libraryBibliothèque nationale de FranceGoogle BooksGeneral30,000,000+GreenstoneGeneralHarvard University Library digital collectionsGeneralLinks to digitized collections from the university's libraries, museums, archives and special collections, covering subjects such as art, architecture, religion, history, culture, botany, biology, landscape design, music, politics, law, and advertising. Projects involved digitizing of analog collections (including images, text, audio files, and music scores), georeferencing maps, or harvesting web resources.Harvard University HathiTrustGeneral10,000,000+Hebrewbooks.orgRabbinical and classical Hebrew texts64,000+All texts are available for free download in PDF format. The platform features advanced search capabilities and optical character recognition (OCR) optionsThe Society for the Preservation of Hebrew BooksHeidelberg University Digital LibraryGeneralScientific publications, European historic literature of German and Latin languagesHeidelberg UniversityHumanitiesUniversity of MichiganHumbulHumanities hubHungarian Electronic LibraryHungarian literatureIbiblioGeneralINSPIRE-HEPHigh energy physicsScientific documents in the field of high energy physicsCERNInternational Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult PeriodicalsSpiritualist and occult documents and literature6,700+ texts"The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals."International Dunhuang ProjectManuscriptsInternational collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and other archaeological sites at the eastern end of the Silk RoadBritish Library and twenty other institutionsInternational Music Score Library ProjectInterna