Academic & Educational Institutions
ARC, an experimental research service of Digital Library Research group at Old Dominion University, is used to investigate issues in harvesting OAI compliant repositories and making them accessible through a unified search interface.
The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide.
Harnessing technology and innovation, and leveraging the intellectual and cultural resources of the University of California, the California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world’s scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve.
Includes a collection of text, image and multimedia digital repositories and portals.
The Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) is the steward of the University’s permanently valuable records and collections created in any format, ensuring their permanent preservation and accessibility.
The Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) is developing a central digital archiving facility for the libraries of the public universities of Florida.
The Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP) is dedicated to the selection, production, and maintenance of a wide range of high quality networked resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere.
The Variations2 project aims to establish a digital music library testbed system containing music in a variety of formats, involving research and development in the areas of system architecture, metadata standards, component-based application architecture, and network services. This system will be used as a foundation for digital library research in the areas of instruction, usability, human-computer interaction, and intellectual property rights.
Informedia initiatives is to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization in both contemporaneous and archival content collections.
The Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Librarians, researchers, and instructors continue to work together to determine the content of this digital library and to evaluate the impact of this resource on research and teaching at both University of Michigan and Cornell University.
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Funded to perform research on developing tools to provide users with improved access to various types of materials, their current work considers ways of developing and refining tools for presentation of materials.
The goal of the Stanford University Digital Library is to design and implement the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information in a digital library context.
Features a diverse collection, focused on earth and space sciences, which can satisfy the needs of a diverse group of users.
The University of Virginia Library has established content-oriented centers to which students and faculty and scholars go via the Internet. This web site gives a glimpse into the resources, including electronic text and geospatial/statistical information, found in the electronic centers.
Interests in theory, experimentation, and human issues underlie efforts with the MARIAN catalog tool, collection visualization, fundamental DL theory, data mining, applications work with the IBM-DL collection management tool, support of the NDLTD, dynamic document generation and analysis and most recently, issues in and applications of PetaPlex terabyte storage.
Public & Non-Profit Organizations
American Memory is a gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
Citebase Search, an Open Archives service, allows researchers to search across free, full-text research literature eprint archives, with results ranked according to many criteria and then to navigate that literature using citation links and analysis.
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
CURL’s mission is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources for the benefit of the local, national and international research community. CURL will make a difference for researchers by helping to build the Distributed and Hybrid Research Library of the future.
DLESE is the Digital Library for Earth System Education, a geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system. DLESE is funded by the National Science Foundation and is being built by a community of educators, students, and scientists to support Earth system education at all levels.
Eprints.org is dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving.
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
The IPL, self-described as the first public library for the Internet community, seeks to address issues about the interconnections of libraries, librarians, and librarianship with a distributed networked environment.
NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels.
The Digital Library Collection website provides online access to collections of unique and rare materials of value to students, creators, scholars, and educators through searchable archival finding aids, full-text documents, digital surrogates and guides to images, and born-digital materials.
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.