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Unit 10: Digital and Virtual Libraries

Digital South Asia Library: Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for Notes
reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and
other users. Their collections include reference sources, books and journals, images, maps,
statistics, etc.

ELPUB Digital Library: ELPUB Digital Library contains full text articles presented in
Electronic Publishing conference w.e.f. 1997. Access to all the articles is given free of cost.
eScholarship Editions: eScholarship Editions collection includes the full text of more than
1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history,
music, religion, and fiction. Access is free to all.

Ethnomathematics Digital Library [EDL]: Ethnomathematics Digital Library provides
access to online resources worldwide. There are about 700 items in the collection, and
regularly adding new ones, particularly those relevant to the Pacific region.

History E-book Project: History E-book Project is a searchable digital archive of historical
books developed by University of Michigan Library. It is having over 500 books of high
quality in the field of history and will be adding 250 more by the end of 2003.
Informedia: Digital Video Library Project has pioneered new approaches for automated
video and audio indexing, navigation, visualization, search and retrieval and embedded
them in a system for use in education, information and entertainment environments.
Librarycompany.org: Librarycompany.org is non-profit independent research library with
collections documenting every aspect of the history and background of American culture
from the colonial period to the end of 19th century.

Metaarchive.org: Metaarchive.org offers multiple institutions a combination of new
technologies for sharing information about primary resources of interest to scholars and
researchers, and it provides researchers a publicly searchable web interface to a collection
of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented resources related to politics
and religion.

Mind Project: Mind Project addresses the problems faced by users in terms of their ability
to access and exploit the increasing number of Digital Libraries available internationally
through networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). It will assist
users to: know where to search, how to query different media and how to combine
information from diverse sources.
National Science Digital Library: National Science Digital Library includes collection in
the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

NYPL Digital Library: NYPL Digital Library will provide free and open online access to
thousands of digital images from the collections of NYPL’s Research Libraries.

Open-Video-Project.org: Open-Video-Project.org its purpose of the Open Video Project is
to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video,
multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.

Networked Digital Library: Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations [NDLTD]
is a digital library of thesis and dissertations. Individuals and institutes can participate in
it by making their thesis or dissertations available to the network in electronic format.
New Zealand Digital Library: New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme
at the University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for
digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it to create their own
collections. They have developed ‘Greenstone’ Software for the development of digital
library. It is available for download.

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