Libraries and Electronic Archives

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Libraries and Related Organizations

• 4Literature, thousands of classic books free
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• Alexandria Digital Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
• ALA: American Library Association
• Archives Hub, access to UK universities and colleges
• Arts and Humanities Data Service, a consortium of UK institutions led by the University of York
• ADE - The Association for Documentary Editing
  • Projects and Editions
  • Committee on Electronic Standards
• ARC: Archival Research Catalog, an online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings
• ARL: Association of Research Libraries
  • ARL Digital Initiatives Database
  • ARL Publications
  • Create Change, a resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication
• Bartleby.com, Great Books Online
• Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Revival of the Library of Alexandria
• BUBL
• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
  • EAD: Encoded Archival Description at Berkeley
  • EAD and SGML Resources
• British Library
• Brown University Women Writers Project
  • Renaissance Women Online
• California Digital Library, a Co-Library of the campuses of the University of California
  • University of California eScholarship Repository
• Catalogue Collectif de France, detailed information on collections in French Libraries
• CETH The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
  • Plain and Encoded Electronic Texts: a Taxonomy and Guidelines forEvaluation
  • Directory of Electronic Text Centers
• Center for Research Libraries
• Colorado Digitization Project
• COPAC - Online Pubic Access Catalogue, sponsored by a consortium of British Research Libraries
• Cornell University Libraries
• CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources
• CURL: Consortium of University Research Libraries
• Digital Future Coalition
• Digital Library Federation
• Digital Libraries Initiative
  • DLI1
  • DLI2
• Digital Library Infrastructure, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The Digital Scriptorium, a project of the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
• D-Lib Magazine, a monthly magazine about innovation and research in digital libraries
• DSpace: Durable Digital Depository: MIT Libraries
• E-DOCS, historical documents on the Internet
• eLib: Electronic Libraries Programme
• Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
  • Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Site
• ERPANET: Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network
• Gabriel, Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
• GDZ - Center for Retrospective Digitization in Göttingen (Göttinger Digitalisierungs Zentrum)
• Harper's Magazine Online
• Haverford College Special Collections
• HOLLIS Plus, web access to libraries at Harvard University
• Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan
• Hytelnet (written by Peter Scott)
  • LibDex, a worldwide directory of library homepages and web-based OPACs
• IMLS - Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
• JISC: Joint Information Systems Committee
• JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing
• Knowledge Quest on the Web, an online companion to the journal of The American Association of School Librarians
• Library of Congress
  • Search the Catalogue
  • Library of Congress Authorities
  • American Memory
  • National Digital Library Competition
  • Today in History
  • America's Story from America's Library
• Library of Electronic Text Resource Service, at Indiana University
• Making of America Project at The University of Michigan
  • Making of America Project at Cornell University
• Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University
• The Model Editions Partnership, Historical Editions in the Digital Age
• National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
• Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography
• Newberry Library
• The New York Public Library
  • Digital Library Collections
  • Center for the Humanities
• OAIster, is a Mellon-funded project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services. Their goal is to create a wide-ranging collection of free, useful, previously difficult-to-access digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone.
  • OAIster Search
• OhioLINK, Ohio Library and Information Network
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
  • Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Metadata for Electronic Resources
• OLAC: Open Language Archives Community, an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources
• Oxford Text Archive
• Pandora Archive, Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia
• Project Gutenberg
• The Research Libraries Group
• The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
• Stanford University Digital Library Project
• Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information
• Text Technology, a journal dedicated to computer technologies and their applications to text
• University of California, Irvine, Libraries
• University of Maryland, College Park, Libraries

Other Resources, Research, and Reference

• American Dialect Society
• Art on Film Online, affiliated with the School of Information & Library Science (SILS) at Pratt Institute
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society
  • OPEN LAW: Eldred v. Reno, challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
  • Other Projects at the Berkman Center
• Britannica online
• The Century Dictionary online and free!
• CNI: Coalition for Networked Information
• CNRI: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
• Conference on Fair Use Joint Statement Released, ALA Washington Office
• Copyright and Fairuse Site at Stanford University
• Copyright at University Libraries, Virginia Tech
• DE PROVERBIO: An Electronic Book Publisher
• Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
• EBR: Electronic Book Review
• EDICTA, The Early Dictionaries Centre, University of Toronto
• EJournal, concerned with electronic networks and texts
• eprints.org, dedicated to freeing refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving.
• E-text sources compiled by Jack Lynch at University of Pennsylvania
• Fedora, an open source general purpose repository system
• Frequently asked questions about copyright
• Greynet - Gateway to Grey Literature
• HighWire Press Stanford University
• Infomedia: Digital Video Library, Carnegie Mellon University
• Information Research, an international electronic journal
• International Journal on Grey Literature
• Journal of Digital Information, supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press
• Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan
• King James Version [gopher site]
• Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics
• LIBLICENSE: Licensing Digital Information
• Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks, A Demonstration Project by the Digital Research Library, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
• Open Archives Initiative
• OED, Oxford English Dictionary Online
• On-Line Book Page at University of Pennsylvania
• Project Muse, Online Journals at The Johns Hopkins University
• Public-Access Computer Systems Review
• RLG: DigiNews
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information, maintained by Marian Dworaczek, University of Saskatchewan Libraries, Saskatoon, Canada
• TEAMS Middle English Texts
• The TEI Consortium
• Text Encoding Initiative Home Page
• Victorian Womens Writers Project
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Reports, Articles, & Guidelines

• Analyzing Visons of Electronic Publishing and Digital Libraries, a report by Rob Kling and Roberta Lamb
• Citing Electronic Sources, MLA Style, with a link to APA Style, copyright by Janice R. Walker, Department of English, University of South Florida
• CLIR Reports [Most are available online.]
• Digital Libraries 94: Keynote Address by Paul Peters
• DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Future Directions for a European Research Programme
• Electronic Textual Editing, Electronic Textual Editing is a volume of essays jointly sponsored by the Modern Language Association and the TEI Consortium
• Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals, by Stevan Harnad
• Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Assocation of America Committee on Scholarly Editions
• Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging, issued by The Digital Library Federation (DLF) and Research Libraries Group (RLG)
• Hypermedia as Integration: Recollections, Reflections and Exhortations, Keynote Address, Hypertext '96 Conference, Washington, DC, March 20, 1996, delivered by Randall H. Trigg, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
• "Interoperability: What is it and Why should I want it?", by Paul Miller, University of Hull
• Keeping Memory Alive: Practices for Preserving Digital Content at the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress, by Caroline R. Arms
• The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges
• NINCH Fair Use Education
• Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual, Edited by Sherelyn Ogden, Northeast Document Conservation Center
• Report on Content-Based Image Retrieval: A report to the JISC Technology Applications Programme
• Report of Digital Archiving Task Force
• Report on TEI and XML in Digital Libraries
• Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections
• TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Draft Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices
• University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (a Mellon Foundation Study)
• World Information Report

Online Bookstores and Publishers

• Alexander Street Press, commercial publishers of online and electronic collections
• Amazon.com Books, online bookstore
• Americana Exchange Rare Books, a web-based resource for those who deal in, deal with and/or collect books
• Auldbooks, old books, free book search
• Bibliofind, Internet's largest inventory of old, used, and rare books
• Bantam, Doubleday, Dell
• Blackwell's Online Bookshops
• Bookwire
• Cambridge University Press
• ChooseBooks
• cultureonline.org
• Frontlist Books, an online bookshop featuring the best new books for the scholarly avant-garde and other theoretically-minded readers.
• HarperCollins
• Heinemann
• Houghton Mifflin Company
• Moyer Bell, Publishers of literature, reference, and art books
• Octavo: Digital Rare Books
• Oxford University Press
• Pearson Technology Group, publishing a wide range of textbooks in all fields
• Pegasus Press, publishing books in the medieval and Renaissance periods
• Random House, Knopf, Vintage
• University of Chicago Press
• UMI, University Microfilms Inc.

This page provides a working index of Internet and World Wide Web sites related to libraries and electronic publishing, as well as other book and publishing resources. A list of online magazines and electronic journals is available here.