Example Digital Libraries/Repositories

• NMC Learning Object Repositories: Link or Link
  A collection of links.
• American Memory: Link
  "provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."
  1. Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzana: Link
     See also: Link
• Image repositories
  1. NASA Multimedia: Link (searchable database of over 300,000 NASA images)
  2. Smithsonian Images (database): Link
  3. University of Texas' Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Link
  4. Louisiana Digital Library: Link
  5. Indiana Historical Society Digital Image Library: Link
  6. ARTstor Digital Library (for education and scholarship): Link
  7. New York Public Library Digital Gallery: Link
  8. University of Miami Libraries, Cuban Heritage Collection: Link
  9. The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - A Hypermedia Archive: Link.
• Text/book and multilingual repositories
  1. Project Gutenberg Electronic Public Library: Link
     Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
  2. The Modern English Collection, by University of Virginia: Link.
     Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present.
  3. Google Books: Link
  4. Universal Digital Library (Million book collection): Link
     See also: Million Books Project: Link
• Video and multimedia repositories
  1. Digital Video Library: Link
  2. JFK Jr. Forum Video and Podcast Archive: Link
• Music repositories
  1. Digital Archive of Popular American Music: Link
  2. MuseData: An Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores: Link
• Map repositories
  1. Alexandria Digital Library: Link
  2. Library of Congress Historical Map Collections: Link
  3. TerraServer CUSA: Link
• Educational Resources
  1. Apple Learning Exchange: Link
     Educator created lessons and activities; rich with movies, images and podcasts.
  2. GEM - Gateway to Educational Materials: Link
  3. MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching for Higher Education: Link
  4. MIT Open CourseWare: Link
  5. FATHOM Archive: Link
  6. World Lecture Hall: Link
• Arts & Humanities
  1. APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System: Link
  2. The American Heritage Project: Link
  3. Arts and Humanities Data Service: Link
  4. Joconde: Link
     A digital repository of the collections of 60 public French musuems comprising 15,000 artists and 130,000 works of art from the 7th century to today. All searchable by metadata.
• Medicine
  1. Behavioral and Brain Sciences: BBS Online: Link
  2. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS): Link
     A unique public resource for health information - a critical element of public health and health policy.
• Science/Physics/Chemistry/Astrophsics Collections
  1. The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System: Link
  2. TechXtra: Link (EEVL: Link)
  3. NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library: Link
     An international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-commercial and eduational use.
  4. eScholar Repository: Link
• Social Sciences
  1. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR): Link
     ICPSR is "the world's largest archive of computerized social science data." Data files are available to researchers at member institutions.
  2. HyperPsycoloquy: Link
     Psycoloquy is a refereed international, interdisciplinary electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA).
  3. Global Education Online Depository and Exchange (GEODE) ¨C for global studies.
  4. Human Physiology -- The Harvey Project: Link
• Literature
  1. Project Bartleby: Link
  2. Literature Post: Link
• Law
  1. Internet Law Library: Link
  2. GPO Access: Link
• Historical
  1. Ancestry.com: Link
  2. Ellis Island: Link
  3. Historical Voices: Link

• AAEC Editorial Cartoon Digital Collection: Link
• The Editorial Cartoonist of J.N. 'Ding' Darling, University of Iowa: Link
• Clifford H. (Baldy) Baldowski Editorial Cartoon Collection, University of Georgia: Link
• Digital Library of Appalachia: Link
• LOUISiana DL: Link
• Ravelry (for knitters and crocheters): Link
• Librivox: Link
• Digital Gallery of the New York Public Library: Link
• Smithsonian Images: Link
• American Memory: Link
• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Digital Image Library: Link
• ASTstor DL: Link
• Dorothea Tanning digital collection: Link
• National Library of Scotland: Link
• Making of America: U. Michigan site, Cornell U. site
• Feeding America cookbook Project: Link
• Google Books: Link
• Mark Twain Project Online: Link
• University of Georgia Facsimile Book Collection: Link