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
- 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
- British Library
- Brown University Women Writers Project
- California Digital Library, a Co-Library of the campuses of the University of California
- Catalogue Collectif de France, detailed information on collections in French Libraries
- CETH The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
- 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
- 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- E-DOCS, historical documents on the Internet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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Last updated: 09/25/2
