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Digital Collections - Interdisciplinary

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Academic Info Digital Library
(www.academicinfo.net/digital.html)
A directory of digital collections, electronic and virtual libraries; online publications, exhibits, documents and journals; traditional libraries and catalogs.

The Bancroft Library Collections
(bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/)

Bartleby (www.bartleby.com/)
An archive of reference resources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact books, and more) and collections of literature, verse, fiction and non-fiction. Features a full-text searchable database containing over 200,000 Web pages, including over 22,000 quotations and 4,765 poems.

Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections
(www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll)
A web-searchable database of nearly 300 public domain online digital collections. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services.

eScholarship Editions
(http://content.cdlib.org/ucpress/)
The University of California Press is making electronic editions of UC Press titles. Almost 400 of the nearly 2000 titles are publicly accessible. Books are from multiple subject areas and each book is searchable.

Google Digital Resources
(http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Digital/)

IFLA/UNESCO Directory of Digitized Collections
(www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/)
A part of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme: Safeguarding Documentary Heritage that hopes to list all major digitized heritage collections and on-going digitization programs worldwide in order to provide a single source of information about digital collections.

Indiana University Digital Library Program
(www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/)

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)
(www.merlot.org/Home.po)
A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. Divided into broad subject groups.

The National Academies Press (NAP)
(www.nap.edu/browse.html)
The NAP provides full text access to over 2,500 books in science, engineering and health. This Website provides the ability to view the entire contents online and also purchasing options. Browse by subject or search by title or words in the full text.

NYPL Digital (New York Public Library Digital Library Collection)
(www.nypl.org/digital/)
"NYPL Digital is your gateway to The New York Public Library's rare and unique collections in digitized form. ... Digitized content has been drawn from a broad range of original historical resources. All historical media are presented as specific, original artifacts, without further enhancement to their appearance or quality, as a record of the era in which they were produced." (NYPL Digital Website) This collection includes prints, photographs, text, moving images, and sound recordings.

Online Archive of California
(www.oac.cdlib.org/about/oacprojects.html)
The Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that "facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California."

The Online Books Page
(digital.library.upenn.edu/books)
A searchable index to over 10,000 books and serials freely available from different sources on the web. Titles are chosen on the basis that they are free, mainly in English are significant (inclusion in the Library of Congress' catalog counts) and are presented in a standard format.

Project Gutenberg
(www.promo.net/pg/)
Project Gutenberg is a non-profit organization whose goal is to make electronic books freely available to the world at large. Titles included are public domain works including those by Shakespeare, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Jane Austen.

SunSite Digital Collections
(sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/)
Describes and provides access to collections covering many different subjects/topics through catalogs, indexes, collections (text & image), and numerous search tools. Updated daily.

Voice of the Shuttle
(vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp)
Voice of the Shuttle provides links to multi-disciplinary collections of free texts on the Internet.

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See also: Research by Subject - Interdisciplinary Resources