Books from 16th and 17th centuries now in full-color view

To date, we’ve scanned about 150,000 books worldwide from the 16th and 17th centuries, and another 450,000 from the 18th century. With our growing list of partners, we expect to scan many hundreds of thousands more pre-1800 titles.

In digitizing books from any century, we try to create clean images with black text and color illustrations on white backgrounds. This helps enhance readability, save storage spaces and serve illustrated pages faster to readers. However, partners, researchers and other readers have frequently asked us to show the older books as they actually appear, for a couple of reasons: First, these books are interesting artifacts. They have changed their appearance over the centuries, and there is a cultural value in viewing them. Second, because of aging and bleed-through, it can be very difficult to display the images as clean text over a white background; in many cases it’s actually easier to read the text from the original (what we call "full-color") images.

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2011/05/books-from-16th-and-17th-centuries-now.html

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)

Electronic resources are a central part of our cultural and intellectual heritage, but this material is at risk. Digital memory needs constant management, using new techniques and processes, to contain such risks as technological obsolescence. Risk begins before the digital record is created and continues for as long as the digital object needs to be retained. Digital preservation is too big an issue for individual institutions or even sectors to address independently. Concerted action at both national and international level is required. DigitalPreservationEurope, building on the earlier successful work of ERPANET, facilitates pooling of the complementary expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe.

http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/

Digitale Medien und Historische Forschung - Konf. Bern 30.09.2011

 Inwiefern haben die digitalen Technologien die Forschungspraktiken in der Geschichtswissenschaft verändert? Sind die wissenschaftliche Kommunikation sowie der Zugang zu den Quellen und zur Literatur von den Neuen Medien abhängig geworden? Durch die Nutzung der digitalen Technologien wurden neue methodische Ansätze zu entwickelt und neue Themenbereiche definiert. Diskussionen über die Eigenschaften der digitalen Formate und ihre epistemologischen Auswirkungen auf die Geisteswissenschaften kommen in Gang. Gleichzeitig etablieren die öffentlichen Institutionen zur Förderung der Forschung Programme und Rahmenbedingungen, die diese Entwicklungen unterstützen.
Mit der Tagung „Digitale Medien und Historische Forschung“ informiert infoclio.ch über den aktuellen Stand der Anwendung der Neuen Medien in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung. Die wichtigsten Institutionen werden ihre Infrastrukturprojekte für die Periode 2013 - 2016 vorstellen. Forscherinnen und Forscher sowie Forschungsinstitutionen aus dem In- und Ausland präsentieren ihre Ideen und Erfahrungen im Umgang mit den Informationstechnologien in der historischen Forschung.

http://www.infoclio.ch/de/node/24028

Directory of history of medicine collections

The National Library of Medicine houses one of the world's largest history of medicine collections.  We collect, preserve, and make available to researchers and the public, print and non-print materials that document the history of medicine, health, and disease in all time periods and cultures. We invite scholars, researchers, and the general public to explore our catalogs, finding aids, online exhibitions, and other resources on this Web site. Feel free to ask questions of our reference staff. We will do our best to help you find what you are looking for.

http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hmddirectory/index.cfm

Virtual Training Suite - developing Internet research skills

Welcome to the Virtual Training Suite - a set of free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills for your university course.

All of the tutorials are written and reviewed by a national team of lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK.

These interactive, teach-yourself tutorials take around an hour to complete. Simply work through the material in your own time at your own pace.

http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/

RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 74 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available. Participation in RePEc as a provider only involves the cost of your time in preparing and maintaining metadata describing your publications.

http://repec.org/

EPrints

EPrints is the most flexible platform for building high quality, high value repositories, recognised as the easiest and fastest way to set up repositories of research literature, scientific data, student theses, project reports, multimedia artefacts, teaching materials, scholarly collections, digitised records, exhibitions and performances.
http://www.eprints.org/

Organic Eprints

Organic Eprints ist ein internationales, öffentlich zugängliches Archiv für wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen zum ökologischen Landbau. Archiviert werden überwiegend elektronische Volltext-Dokumente. Zu jedem Eintrag werden die vollständigen bibliographischen Angaben und weitere Metadaten zur Verfügung gestellt.

http://www.orgprints.org/

DSpace@MIT

Welcome to DSpace@MIT, MIT's institutional repository built to save, share, and search MIT's digital research materials including an increasing number of conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses, working papers, and more.

http://dspace.mit.edu/

DSpace@MIT's Open Access Articles collection contains over 3000 scholarly articles that MIT Faculty have made openly available on the web under their Open Access Policy. Articles have been viewed more than 100,000 times since the collection was launched in October 2009. [Updated February 2011]

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49433

"Getting Ready for Digital Preservation” - Digital Preservation Summit Hamburg 2011, oct. 19./20.

Digital long-term preservation has become an important topic for almost every library, archive and museum. Preservation and long-lasting usability of valuable digital cultural and scientific holdings are central challenges the digital society is facing.
The Digital Preservation Summit 2011 addresses major issues of some of the first necessary tasks in the process of a successful and sustainable digital preservation practise.
We would like to invite you to our conference that is in step with actual practises:

• Listen to practitioners from large and small institutions reporting about their experiences made.
• Gain knowledge in workshops about pre-ingest and ingest tasks in digital preservation.
• Exchange ideas with colleagues around the world about challenges in digital preservation.
• Be part of an interactive panel discussion

http://www.digitalpreservationsummit.de/

OpenDOAR

The OpenDOAR service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by OpenDOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided: OpenDOAR is maintained by SHERPA Services, based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.

http://www.opendoar.org/

Internet for Philosophy - a virtual training suite

Internet for Philosophy is a free online tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills.


http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/philosophy/

Library of Congress American Memory Project

American Memory 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. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

GUPEA - Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive

Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (GUPEA) is a system for e-publishing of theses and other research publications.

http://gupea.ub.gu.se/?locale=en

Project Euclid - mathematics and statistics resources online

Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project.

http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?Service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid

Ethnologue: Languages of the World

http://www.ethnologue.com/

Ethnologue.com is a place where you can conveniently find many resources to help you with your research of the world's languages. Ethnologue.com is owned by SIL International, a service organization that works with people who speak the world’s lesser-known languages.

Ethnologue language data: The language data you will find on this site came from the Ethnologue database. Once every four years we take a "snapshot" of the contents of the database and publish it along with language maps for many of the countries of the world. The most recently published edition of the Ethnologue database is Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition. The language data from the sixteenth edition is presented in this searchable web version.
The Ethnologue database has been an active research project for more than fifty years. It is probably the most comprehensive listing of information about the currently known languages of the world. Thousands of linguists and other researchers all over the world rely on and have contributed to the Ethnologue database.

Language maps: We also compile information about the locations of the world's living languages and have created a set of maps which include most of the countries of the world. Each time a new edition of the Ethnologue is published, we include these maps in the printed volumes. The maps can be viewed from the continent and country pages (see individual countries) on this site.

Extensive bibliography: In addition to the Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources there are keyed to the language information on this site bibliographic citations for thousands of published works with additional information about the languages of the world. The SIL Bibliography is an invaluable research aid for scholars and others with interest in the world's languages. You can browse using the author, country, serial, or subject indexes, or create your own freeform search parameters. For details about the SIL Bibliography, see the Overview.

Computer resources: We have developed a number of software tools to be used by scholars, researchers, and students in linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics, literacy, and related disciplines. Some of these computer resources are available for free download.

E-LIS

Established in 2003, E-LIS is an international Open Archive for Library and Information Science (LIS). Over 11,500 papers have been archived to date. It is freely accessible, aligned with the Open Access (OA) movement and is a voluntary enterprise. E-LIS has grown to include a team of volunteer editors from 44 countries and support for 22 languages.

http://eprints.rclis.org/

BioMed Central

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model
All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.

BioMed Central is committed to maintaining high standards through full and stringent peer review
All research articles in BioMed Central's journals receive rapid and thorough peer review. The detailed peer-review policy of each journal is the responsibility of the journal editor(s) concerned. Many journals operate traditional anonymous peer review. Others, including the medical BMC-series titles, operate 'open peer review', in which reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. For these titles, the pre-publication history of each paper (including submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses) is linked to from the published article.

BioMed Central offers a wide variety of journals and other services
BioMed Central's portfolio of 215 journals includes general titles BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals (e.g. BMC Bioinformatics, Malaria Journal) that focus on particular disciplines . All the research published by BioMed Central's journals is open access, but BioMed Central also provides access to various additional products and services that require a subscription. For example, certain BioMed Central journals such as Genome Biology publish commissioned review content available only to subscribers. BioMed Central also operates Open Repository, a hosted digital repository solution for institutions.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

arXiv.org Eprint Archive

Open access to 678,631 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
http://arxiv.org/

CiteSeer - Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine

CiteSeer^x is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer^x aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeer^x attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeer^x has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web. Citeseer^x provides the following features. 

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/

The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library (MPDL)

The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library (MPDL) makes widely available a repository of the world’s knowledge on all forms of philanthropy as expressed through original documents, reports, graphics, waqf registrations, scholarly analysis in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities worldwide. It also houses video and sound recorded interviews in its Voices of Philanthropy section and visual representations of philanthropy in its Visual Exhibition.

http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/gerhart/mpdl/Pages/Home.aspx

Digitale Bibliothek Pommern

Wir freuen uns, Sie über den Start der Pomorska Digitale Bibliothek zu informieren. Das ist die größte derartige Initiative in Nord-Polen.

http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra

ASSETS - Advanced Service Search and Enhancing Technological Solutions for the European Digital Library

ASSETS is a 2 year project- co-funded by the CIP Policy Support Programme- which aims to improve the usability of Europeana by developing, implementing and deploying software services focused on search, browsing and interfaces. ASSETS strives also to make more digital items available on Europeana by involving content providers across different cultural environments.


ASSETS is notably addressed to: Museums/Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Research & Education Organizations, Cultural Portals, Publishers, Private companies active in digital libraries.


http://www.assets4europeana.eu/

Digital library of illuminated books

The Illuminated Books Project is a private non-profit, collaborative effort of three individuals, Alfredo Malchiodi, Anita Malchiodi and Carlos Alonso Cabezas, who share a vision to make available, in high-resolution, many illuminated and illustrated books from their private collections. These books are mainly from the 19th Century Victorian Period, Arts and Craft style and Private Presses extending from 1800’s to the 1920’s. In the selection of books exhibited, particular emphasis is given to the illustration and illumination over the literary content.

http://www.illuminated-books.com/

Complete List of Books:

http://www.illuminated-books.com/books.htm

Kleine Anfrage der SPD-Fraktion zur Digitalisierung von Kulturgut

Bundesregierung hat Kleine Anfrage der SPD-Fraktion zur Digitalisierung von Kulturgut beantwortet:

http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7846/2051515/cdu_csu_bundestagsfraktion

Digital Book Index

Gute Idee, wenn auch noch am Anfang...

Over the last decade, a quiet revolution has been going on in the development of a large library of "digital" or "electronic" books. While there are still large gaps, a very substantial body of "Western" thought is available in the form of downloadable or on-line books. Most major writers, from Plato to Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Proust, or John Le Carre, are accessible on the Internet. Subjects range from the highly scholarly to the contemporary and popular -- especially as more commercial publishers discover the virtues of "on-line" distribution. This index is intended as a "Meta-index" for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites. In some subject categories, the resources you find here are more comprehensive than those of all but the largest of research libraries, due to the budget & space constraints of smaller institutions.
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n  Digital Book Index provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm

Hier ein brauchbarer Subject-Guide:

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/_SEARCH/search011t-rev.asp

Deep Blue at the University of Michigan

Deep Blue is the University of Michigan's permanent, safe, and accessible service for representing our rich intellectual community. Its primary goal is to provide access to the work that makes Michigan a leader in research, teaching, and creativity.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/community-list

Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA)

The mission of the Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives is to collect, manage, preserve and provide global access over time to the scholarly output of the Institute and the publications of campus units.

"CODA" is an acronym for the Collection of Open Digital Archives, which contain Caltech's institutional collections for faculty research publications and other content supporting the mission of the Institute.


http://libguides.caltech.edu/CODA

CERN - Document Server

Mehr als 900,000 Datensätze vorhanden, 360,000 volltext Dokumente
in der Teilchenphysik und in den verbindeten Bereichen einbezogen.
Die Datenbank enthielt Preprinte, Artikel, Bücher, Zeitschrifte, Photographien und viel mehr.

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/

RUDAR - Roskilde University Digital Archive

Research in digital form, including preprints, student reports, technical reports, working papers, theses, conference papers, images, and more.

http://rudar.ruc.dk/

Washington State University (WSU) Libraries: Digital Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) is a unit in Washington State University's Holland and Terrell Library that is primarily responsible for acquiring, administering, and preserving millions of non-circulating items, many of which are rare and unique. Collections consist of records and documents of historical value, including manuscripts, photographs, audio and video tapes, films, printed and published materials (books, maps, broadsides, etc.). The university archives, which includes Washington State University theses and dissertations, serves as the collective memory of the institution. As of spring 2001, MASC held approximately15,500 linear feet of primary source material and 38,000 printed items, or roughly 4,500 linear feet of printed material.

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/

DiVA - Academic Archive On-line

DiVA portal is a finding tool and an institutional repository for research publications and student theses written at 28 universities and colleges of higher education.

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/search.jsf

Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)

The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels.
DLESE supports Earth system science education by providing:

• Access to high-quality collections of educational resources
• Access to Earth data sets and imagery, including the tools and interfaces that enable their effective use in educational settings
• Support services to help educators and learners effectively create, use, and share educational resources
• Communication networks to facilitate interactions and collaborations across all dimensions of Earth system education

DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more.
The National Science Foundation provided funding for the development of DLESE which is now operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Computational and Information Systems Laboratory and the NCAR Library on behalf of the education community.

http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp

DLIST: Digitial Library of Information Science and Technology

Established in 2002, DLIST is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures.
The DLIST vision is to serve as a dynamic, community-based archive in the Information Sciences, broadly understood, and to positively impact and shape scholarly communication in our closely related fields.


http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/105067

OpenAIRE - Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

Dank an Paul Grice für diesen Hinweis:

OpenAIRE’s three main objectives are to

1. build support structures for researchers in depositing FP7 research publications through the establishment of the European Helpdesk and the outreach to all European member states through the operation and collaboration of 27 National Open Access Liaison Offices;
   
2. establish and operate an electronic infrastructure for handling peer-reviewed articles as well as other important forms of publications (pre-prints or conference publications). This is achieved through  a portal that is the gateway to all user-level services offered by the e-Infrastructure established, including access (search and browse) to scientific publications and other value-added functionality (post authoring tools, monitoring tools through analysis of document and usage statistics);
   
3. work with several subject communities to explore the requirements, practices, incentives, workflows, data models, and technologies to deposit, access, and otherwise manipulate research datasets of various forms in combination with research publications.

Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. Open Access includes the outputs that scholars normally give away for free for publication; it includes peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.

http://www.openaire.eu/

http://www.eubuero.de/magazin-infra.htm

EU-Kommission will Schriften ohne Urheber zugänglich machen

http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article1901330/EU-Kommission-will-Schriften-ohne-Urheber-zugaenglich-machen.html

USC Digital Library

The USC Digital Library helps to fulfill the mission of the USC Libraries to select, collect, preserve and make accessible high quality digital images of unique materials with metadata to support research, and provides a “gateway” to resources on Los Angeles and Southern California. A portion of the images contained in the USC Digital Library come from the collections of collaborating institutions which, like USC, have valuable archival collections related to the history and culture of the region; the university's powerful infrastructure provides a host environment for our collaborators.
Spanning a wide range of visual media, the USC Digital Library offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, as well as audio and video recordings. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of the libraries at the University of Southern California, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.
The USC Digital Library now offers broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents that provides maximum access to relevant, authoritative, and scholarly resources. It also allows individuals to pursue learning at their own personal levels of interest, ability and desire.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/index.htm

CORDIS - search tool for european research

CORDIS is rolling out a new beta search tool and giving users an opportunity to send in feedback. The new CORDIS Search is fast and effective, offering a range of services that help CORDIS stakeholders drill down to information with less fuss than ever before. It will also help users discover CORDIS content more easily and find out what CORDIS can offer.

Over the years, CORDIS has amassed thousands of records on Framework Research Programmes launched by the EU (e.g. FP4, FP5, FP6, FP7, Euratom). In order to retrieve data more efficiently and smoothly, the new search tool was developed and implemented. Users will be able to navigate seamlessly between the various categories of content available in CORDIS and to identify related items which could be relevant.

The new beta service is designed to be both intuitive and user-centric. It features simple open field searching on key words, as well as a variety of filtering options.

For most people, the 'search-and-go' approach will be the fastest and easiest way to find information about European research. But for some who are more familiar with European research and development (R&D) programmes and activities, there are many options for narrowing down the search. Users get the option of refining their search by a range of criteria including 'subject' and 'document type'.

Another feature of the new search tool is the possibility to define RSS feeds from any search query. This means users can customise their RSS feeds to receive only the information they are interested in. This feature will be particularly relevant for webmasters who would like to relay targeted information from CORDIS to their own website. When the notification service is fully operational early in 2011, it will also supply the user with automatic notice of the latest updates matching their interests.

http://cordis.europa.eu/newsearch/index.cfm?page=simpleSearch&language=en

http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&RCN=32898

Copac - Prototype interface

Search over 38 million bibliographic records from over 66 National, Academic and Specialist libraries

Alpha prototype of the new Copac search interface.

Available from Mon 23 May to Mon 30 May 2011

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We wanted to let you test the new Copac search at an early stage in its development.
We've worked hard to improve your experience of searching the new Copac without losing the key qualities that you tell us make searching the current Copac so valuable.

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After you've had a look around we hope you still find that the Copac prototype

• is easy to use
• is time saving
• has a simple search workflow

What is the search flow? Well, it's as simple as:

• entering your search query
• viewing and interacting with search results
• viewing and interacting with record details
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http://alpha.copac.ac.uk/

Oxford Dictionaries Online

http://oxforddictionaries.com/?attempted=true

Conversations with History

Harry Kreisler is the creator, executive producer and host of the Conversations with History series, an interview program, broadcast nationally every Friday evening on Echostar Satellite's DISH Network, channel 9412, and on YouTube. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 500 interviews.

http://conversations.berkeley.edu/

Connexions

Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks).

http://cnx.org/

Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

We acquire and preserve newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources. Most of the materials acquired are from outside the United States, and many are from the emerging regions of the world: Africa,  the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. 

http://catalog.crl.edu/

National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.

http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Digital Library for International Research (DLIR)

Building on the established libraries and research collections of its twenty-three constituent centers, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) in 1999 launched the American Overseas Digital Library (AODL). The AODL is as a cost-effective, efficient, centralized, Internet-based mechanism for the standardization and electronic delivery of important bibliographic and full-text primary and secondary source information from all CAORC member centers, covering both print collections and research collections in other media. The initial resources for the AODL program were located in overseas centers in Europe, the Near and Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and West Africa. The program now includes bibliographic materials from Inner Asia and the New World, as well as from other collections in countries that host centers. To reflect this new level of participation and coverage, in November 2004 the program's name was changed to Digital Library for International Research (DLIR).

http://www.dlir.org/

Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)

CESSDA is an umbrella organisation for social science data archives across Europe. Since the 1970s the members have worked together to improve access to data for researchers and students. CESSDA research and development projects and Expert Seminars enhance exchange of data and technologies among data organisations.

http://www.cessda.org/

Central and Eastern European Online Library (C.E.E.O.L.)

C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 589 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

http://www.ceeol.com/

Digitale Bibliothek Sloweniens

Die "Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije" bzw. "Digitale Bibliothek Sloweniens" ist eine frei zugängliche Online-Bibliothek mit dem Ziel, das nationale Kulturerbe Sloweniens in digitaler Form - als Text-, Bild- oder Multimediadateien - zugänglich zu machen.

In der kontinuierlich ausgebauten Sammlung finden sich Kulturschätze aus den wichtigsten Bibliotheken des Landes und zu verschiedenen Bereichen etwa von der Malerei und Photographie über historische Poster, Post- und Landkarten bis hin zu Notenblättern und Musikdateien. Darüber hinaus werden historische und wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften, Bücher, aktuelle Dissertationen sowie Reportagen der Slowenischen Forschungsagentur ARRS zur Verfügung gestellt.

http://www.vifaost.de/1/linktipp/linktipp/digitale-bibliothek-sloweniens/2/1305844938/

http://www.dlib.si/v2/Default.aspx?&language=eng

Anemi - Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies

Anemi Digital Library aims to provide simple and quick access to a rich collection of digitized material related to Modern Greek Studies. Apart from finding bibliographic information, the researcher can also browse the documents themselves in electronic form. Here you may find a great number of old and rare documents, as well as recent publications for which their creators allowed the digitization and free distribution over the Internet.

mit einer unglaublich langen URL:

http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/search/?dtab=m&search_type=simple&search_help=&display_mode=overview&wf_step=init&show_hidden=0&number=1&keep_number=1&cclterm1=&cclterm2=&cclterm3=&cclterm4=&cclterm5=&cclterm6=&cclterm7=&cclterm8=&cclfield1=&cclfield2=&cclfield3=&cclfield4=&cclfield5=&cclfield6=&cclfield7=&cclfield8=&cclop1=&cclop2=&cclop3=&cclop4=&cclop5=&cclop6=&cclop7=&isp=&search_coll[metadata]=1&&stored_cclquery=&skin=&rss=0&cclfield1=&cclfield2=&cclfield3=&cclterm1=&cclterm2=&cclterm3=&cclop1=&cclop2=&cclterm4=&cclfield4=&cclop3=&cclterm5=&cclfield5=&cclop4=&cclterm6=&cclfield6=&cclop5=&cclterm7=&cclfield7=&cclop6=&cclterm8=&cclfield8=&cclop7=&stored_cclquery=&display_mode=&search_help=&number=1

Digital Library of Malopolska (MBC)

Digital Library of Malopolska (MBC) collects and provides cultural heritage of Malopolska (books, periodicals, and documents), national culture heritage resources maintained in libraries of Malopolska and publications issued by institutions and authors of the region. Selection includes educational resources, scientific publications as well as business and administrative information. MBC is common undertaking of local government of Malopolska, Regional Public Library in Krakow, non-governmental organizations, commercial companies, publishers and the authors.

http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra


Malopolska, poln.Małopolska, ist die Bezeichnung für die Region um Krakau, poln. Kraków.

Cambridge University on iTunesU

This is the official directory of Cambridge University sound and multimedia content on the Apple iTunes store. It contains a catalogue of the online lectures which cover a range of different social science, humanities and scientific subjects. These are available as podcasts and film.Topics currently available range from business and management, science, new technology to Anthropology and politics.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/video/itunesu.html

Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Collecion digital

La Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Google firmaron un acuerdo de cooperación para digitalizar la totalidad de las colecciones de la Biblioteca Complutense libres de derechos de autor. Se obtendrán copias digitales de estas obras que podrán ser recuperadas libremente desde Google (buscando en el texto completo) y desde el catálogo de la Biblioteca.

La Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense se convierte de este modo en la primera biblioteca no anglosajona que realiza un acuerdo de colaboración con Google dentro del servicio Búsqueda de Libros de Google. 

 

http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/atencion/25403.php

British Museum collection database online

Welcome to the British Museum collection database online. Search almost two million objects from the entire Museum collection.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx

British Library Research Archive

The British Library Research Archive is a database of papers and articles by British Library staff. It also contains papers by readers who have used the Library’s collections in their research and who do not have any institutional affiliation or access to another institutional repository. Papers from conferences organised and hosted by the British Library may also be included. The goal of the Archive is to provide free and full access to these materials, and to capture and preserve research that might otherwise be lost.

http://sherpa.bl.uk/

British Library Online Gallery - Virtual Books

The site contains a virtual books section, which allows you to virtually leaf through some of the Library's treasures online. 

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html

Das gesamte Angebot der Online-Galerie hier:

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html

British Library Newspapers Collection

The most popular of these are the UK broadsheets: the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent and The Times. The Times is held from 1960 to the present day and the other broadsheets from around 1980 onwards. We also hold Sunday editions from 1990 onwards. Additional years of some titles may be available. Please refer to the Document Supply Journals/Serials collection on the Integrated Catalogue for full details. As well as the UK broadsheets, we hold other UK national newspapers such as the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, but these have been added to the collection on an infrequent basis because it is not our policy to collect the tabloids.

We hold quite a few newspapers from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that may be of interest to historians and other researchers. These are predominantly, but not exclusively, London based and include the Daily Courant (1702-1735), the London Post (1644) and the Caledonian Mercury (1722-1726).

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/collection/newspapers/

British Library National Sound Archive

The British Library Sound Archive holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes. Its collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral history and wildlife sounds. Formats range from cylinders made in the late 19th century to the latest digital media.
http://www.bl.uk/nsa

British Library Images Online

Images Online gives you instant access to thousands of the greatest images from the British Library's collections which include manuscripts, rare books, musical texts and maps spanning almost 3000 years. The range of images available include illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs.

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/

British Cartoon Archive

The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, and exhibition gallery, and is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for more than 150,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines. The collection of artwork dates back to 1904 and includes work by W.K. Haselden, Will Dyson, Sidney Strube, David Low,Vicky, Emmwood, Michael Cummings, Ralph Steadman, Mel Calman, Nicholas Garland, Chris Riddell, Carl Giles, Martin Rowson, and Steve Bell, amongst many others.

http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/

PORTAL - British Academy's directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences

It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research. Follow the links below to access the entries in each subject area:

• African and Oriental Studies
• Archaeology
• Classical Antiquity
• Early Modern History to C1800
• Early Modern Languages and Literature
• Economics and Economic History
• History of Art and Music
• Law
• Linguistics and Philology
• Medieval Studies: History and Literature
• Modern History from C1800
• Modern Languages, Literatures, and Other Media
• Philosophy
• Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and
  International Relations
• Psychology
• Social Anthropology and Geography
• Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
• Theology and Religious Studies

http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal.cfm

BibMe - Bibliography Maker

BibMe is a free automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages external databases to quickly fill citation information for you. BibMe will then format the citation information and compile a bibliography according to the guidelines of the style manuals. If you prefer, you can enter your citation information manually. BibMe also features a citation guide that provides students with the style manuals' guidelines for citing references.
http://www.bibme.org/

BASE - Open Access-Suchmaschine

BASE ist eine der weltweit größten Suchmaschinen speziell für frei im Sinne des Open Access zugängliche wissenschaftliche Dokumente im Internet. Betreiber der Suchmaschine BASE ist die Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld.
Mit zunehmenden Erfolg der Open-Access-Bewegung entstehen immer mehr Repository-Server, die ihre Inhalte über das "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) bereitstellen. BASE sammelt, normalisiert und indexiert diese Daten. Unser OAI-PHM-Blog informiert über unsere Aktivitäten in Bezug auf Harvesting und Aggegration von Metadaten.
Neben den OAI-Metadaten werden ausgewählte Webquellen und lokale Datenbestände der Bibliothek indexiert, die über eine Suchoberfläche zusammen recherchierbar sind.

http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/de/index.php

DRIVER - Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

Considered the largest initiative of its kind in helping to enhance repository development worldwide, DRIVER is a multi-phase effort whose vision and primary objective is to create a cohesive, robust and flexible, pan-European infrastructure for digital repositories, offering sophisticated services and functionalities for researchers, administrators and the general public. DRIVER has established a network of relevant experts and Open Access repositories. DRIVER-II will consolidate these efforts and transform the initial testbed into a fully functional, state-of-the art service, extending the network to a larger confederation of repositories. DRIVER is integral to the suite of electronic infrastructures that have emerged in the worldwide GÉANT network and is hence funded under the e-Infrastructures call of the European Commission's 7th framework programme. It aims to “… optimise the way the e-Infrastructure is used to store knowledge, add value to primary research data and information making secondary research more effective, provide a valuable asset for industry, and help bridging research and education.”

http://www.driver-repository.eu/


DRIVER Search Portal:

Access the network of freely accessible digital repositories with content across academic disciplines with over 2,500,000 scientific publications, found in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc., harvested regularly from more than 249 repositories, from 33 countries.

http://search.driver.research-infrastructures.eu/

American Historical Association - Directory of History Dissertations

The Directory of History Dissertations contains more than 21,000 dissertations that have been completed or are currently -in progress in the United States and Canada since 1882. This directory is the merger of two previous online publications, Dissertations in Progress (online from 1999 to 2005) and the Directory of Completed Dissertations.
http://www.historians.org/pubs/dissertations/

DATA - digitally assisted text analysis

DATA is an acronym for 'digitally assisted text analysis'. The operative word here is 'assisted'. There is no claim that doing things digitally is a finer or cooler thing than plain old reading. There is merely a claim that in some situations the digital manipulation of texts comes in handy and lets you do things that otherwise would take much longer or might be impracticable altogether. Whenever it does, texts for a while become 'data' — a word that grates on the humanist's ear, even though it is a perfectly good and simple Latin word for the 'given'

http://literaryinformatics.northwestern.edu/

MONK - metadata offer new knowledge

MONK is a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study (see the table at the bottom of this page for detailed information on what is in the MONK datastore, and terms of availability). The MONK project has been generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, from 2007-2009, and InCommon integration has been supported in 2009 by the CIC Library Directors. All code produced by the project is open source. MONK has a publicly available instance with texts contributed by Indiana University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, and Martin Mueller at Northwestern University:

http://www.monkproject.org/

about Monk and TextGrid: http://literaryinformatics.northwestern.edu/?q=node/21

about TextGrid: 
http://teichfischer-fundgrube-digitalisate.blogspot.com/2011/03/textgrid-escience-methoden-fur-die.html

LIGATUS

The Ligatus Research Unit aims to create a unique environment, where the study of the history of bookbinding and conservation is combined with research into modern digital data analysis and collection management tools. This is the first time that bookbinding and conservation have been made the focus of a research unit, and it is intended that Ligatus will provide a central resource for these two subjects and enhance their practice through the use of current digital technologies.

http://www.ligatus.org.uk/

Institute of the Future of the Book - Die Zukunft des Buches, Teil 2

(Siehe auch den Post vom 18.10.2010: http://teichfischer-fundgrube-digitalisate.blogspot.com/2010/10/die-zukunft-des-buches.html)

The Institute of the Future of the Book

http://www.futureofthebook.org/

The Mission

The printed page is giving way to the networked screen. The Institute for the Future of the Book seeks to chronicle this shift, and impact its development in a positive direction. The Institute is a project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

The Book

For the past five hundred years, humans have used print — the book and its various page-based cousins — to move ideas across time and space. Radio, cinema and television emerged in the last century and now, with the advent of computers, we are combining media to forge new forms of expression. For now, we use the word "book" broadly, even metaphorically, to talk about what has come before — and what might come next.

The Work & The Network

One major consequence of the shift to digital is the addition of graphical, audio, and video elements to the written word. More profound, however, is the book's reinvention in a networked environment. Unlike the printed book, the networked book is not bound by time or space. It is an evolving entity within an ecology of readers, authors and texts. Unlike the printed book, the networked book is never finished: it is always a work in progress.
As such, the Institute is deeply concerned with the surrounding forces that will shape the network environment and the conditions of culture: network neutrality, copyright and privacy. We believe that a free, neutral network, a progressive intellectual property system, and robust safeguards for privacy are essential conditions for an enlightened digital age.

Tools

For discourse to thrive in the digital age, tools are needed that allow ordinary, non-technical people to assemble complex, elegant and durable electronic documents without having to master overly complicated applications or seek the help of programmers. The Institute is dedicated to building such tools. We also conduct experiments with existing tools and technologies, exploring their potential and testing their limits.

Humanism & Technology

Although we are excited about the potential of digital technologies and the internet to amplify human potential, we believe it is crucial to consider their social and political consequences, both today and in the long term.

New Practices

Academic institutes arose in the age of print, which informed the structure and rhythm of their work. The Institute for the Future of the Book was born in the digital era, and so we seek to conduct our work in ways appropriate to the emerging modes of communication and rhythms of the networked world. Freed from the traditional print publishing cycles and hierarchies of authority, the Institute values theory and practice equally, conducting its activities as much as possible in the open and in real time.

Mediaevum - Mediävistik im Internet

Mediaevum.de versteht sich als ein Internetportal für Studenten und Wissenschaftler der germanistischen und latinistischen Mediävistik. Sie finden auf dieser Homepage demzufolge Links und Informationen zur deutschen und lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, die nach dem Kriterium wissenschaftlicher Verläßlichkeit ausgewählt wurden. Ziel des 1999 gestarteten, privaten Projekts ist es, aus der Masse an Internetseiten unterschiedlichster Provenienz und Qualität diejenigen Angebote, die als fachlich nützlich und inhaltlich zuverlässig erscheinen, herauszufiltern und in Form von Verweisen ("Links") an einer zentralen Stelle im Internet zusammenzustellen. Das laufend aktualisierte Portal ist mittlerweile die umfangreichste altgermanistische Meta-Seite im deutschsprachigen Raum; sie umfaßt derzeit mehr als sechshundert Internetverweise, die in Kurzbeschreibungen vorgestellt und kommentiert werden, und wird täglich von ca. 3.000 Besuchern aufgerufen

http://www.mediaevum.de/haupt2.htm

How to Build a Digital Library

http://www.onlinebuchladen.ch/how-to-build-a-digital-library-witten-ian-h-bainbridge-david-nichols-david-m-9780123748577.html

Greenstore digital library software:

http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-12-17/how-to-build-a-digital-library-second-edition/

Access Interviews

Welcome to Access Interviews. Our aim is to create a unique index from which our users can easily find the vast and endlessly fascinating library of interviews now available online.
Exclusive interviews, whether they are with celebrities, politicians, sporting heroes or eminent scientists, have been the bedrock of content for newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations for decades. The trouble these days is that there are so many media outlets that it is impossible to keep track. How often have you missed a great interview with your favourite personality simply because you didn't know about it? Well, that need never happen again.
We have joined forces with major print publishers, leading broadcasters and respected journalists to provide direct links to their work. You won't find their actual content here, but instead we provide a finely filtered archive of links, so you no longer need to trawl through all that rubbish on the Web to get to the vital source material.
Access Interviews also encourages a collaborative editorial. We want our community of users to choose which interviews are linked to our site. If you have spotted a great interview deeply buried in an obscure archive somewhere, then why not up-load its location and share it with everyone else.
Access Interviews was founded by English author and journalist Rob McGibbon, who has been interviewing high profile personalities for 20 years. He is a regular judge in the annual British Press Awards - often in the 'Interviewer of the Year' category. McGibbon knows that the business of interviewing is all about access. Without it, you have nothing.
Only the best writers and most trusted publications or broadcasters get quality access, hence it is these top professionals who know the answer to "Who is saying What, Why, When and Where". This website is your access to their work - and their access to YOU.

http://www.accessinterviews.com/

Academic Earth

 Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education?  At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.  Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.

Academic Earth is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

http://academicearth.org/

ABYZ News Links

ABYZ News Links is a portal to online news sources from around the world.  It is primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies.  Please note that ABYZ News Links does not contain actual news content but only links to other news sources.

ABYZ News Links is oriented to those who are comfortable working in the English language.  Nevertheless, those with little or no grounding in English should still be able to easily use all of its basic features.

There are three ordered priorities at ABYZ News Links.  The main priority is to maintain the proper functioning of the site.  The second is to maintain the integrity and accuracy of the existing content. The third is to add new content.

We are continually attempting to improve this site.  We greatly appreciate your feedback and comments at mecar [at] abyznewslinks.com.  This page is available in English only. 

http://www.abyznewslinks.com/

19th Century British pamphlets online

Due to their small size and print runs many 19th Century pamphlets are now scarce and very difficult to locate or access. As a consequence, they have often been overlooked by researchers. Yet pamphlets were a significant form of publication in the 19th Century and they can complement other publications such as books, newspapers and periodicals. They were often published by individuals, parties or pressure groups with strongly held views, so they can be particularly valuable in aiding our understanding of the debates of their age.
This site was created by the 19th Century Pamphlets Online project, which during 2007-09 digitised more than 23,000 pamphlets from seven UK research collections. This work was led by the University of Southampton , funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and sponsored by Research Libraries UK (RLUK) . The site also incorporates resources created by an earlier RLUK-led 19th Century Pamphlets cataloguing project which created catalogue records for almost 180,000 pamphlets held within 21 research libraries.

http://www.britishpamphlets.org.uk/

Gale Digital Collections - Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

900 years of international history from one source. Gale Digital Collections has changed the nature of research forever by providing a wealth of rare, formerly inaccessible historical content from the world's most prestigious libraries.

Gale Digital Collections makes rare, previously impossible-to-access printed matter viewable in a digital format. From the 1100s to the 2000s; from the Wild West to the Far East; from culture and business, to politics and war, to religion and government; this remarkable, ever-expanding resource supports the needs of today's scholars, faculty and students and enhances the value and reputation of any library that offers it.

http://gdc.gale.com/#

Hier z.B. das Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 - kostenpflichtig, so wie auch die anderen Angebote von Gale!

http://gdc.gale.com/products/the-times-digital-archive-1785-1985/

Iowa Digital Library

 The Iowa Digital Library features more than 300,000 digital objects created from the holdings of The University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners. Included are illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, fine art, political cartoons, scholarly works, and more. Digital collections are coordinated by Digital Library Services. 

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/index.php

DigiBib

In der DigiBib finden Sie unter einer einheitlichen Oberfläche viele verschiedene Informationsquellen:

• Durchsuchen Sie parallel große Bibliothekskataloge und Literaturdatenbanken aus aller Welt.
• Stellen Sie in wenigen Augenblicken fest, wie ein gefundener Text verfügbar ist - ob online, per Dokumentlieferung, in einer Bibliothek oder bei einem Online-Buchhändler.

Und wenn Sie hier nicht fündig werden, führt Sie unsere Übersicht elektronischer Ressourcen zu Online- oder CD-ROM - Datenbanken (z.B. Lexika, Fachdatenbanken) oder zu qualitativ hochwertigen freien Webseiten.

https://www.digibib.net/Digibib

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.

http://www.doaj.org/

Eighteenth Century Bibliography

Eighteenth Century Bibliography is a listing of texts that appeared between 1680 and 1810. Texts can be browsed by decade and author.
New entries are regularly added to the bibliography; comments regarding errors and omissions will be received with gratitude.

http://www.c18th.com/

The University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections

http://digilib.usm.edu/index.php

UK Government Web Archive

Sehr interessant und wichtig für die Geschichtsschreibung der Zukunft! Quellenkunde...

The "UK Government Web Archive" is a project undertaken by The National Archives that aims to preserve government websites, with the intention of illustrating the changing nature of interaction between the citizens of the UK and its government. This website collects and makes available an archive of snapshots of selected government websites. Full background information on the project is also available. The project commenced in 2003. The chosen websites fall into the broad categories of: Business, industry, economics and finance; Culture and leisure; Environment; Government, politics and public administration; Health, well-being and care; International affairs and defence; People, community and housing; Public order, justice and rights; Transport, communication and technology; and Work, education and skills.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

Pobeda 1941-1945

Pobeda 1941-1945 is a searchable online archive of over one thousand photographs from the second world war, selected from numerous federal and regional Russian archives and presented as high-quality digitised images. The archive can be browsed thematically or searched by keyword or photograph details: date or place taken; photographer; archive number. Although there is no English-language version, the site is well constructed and easy to use, and offers a valuable resource for historians teaching and researching the second world war. Developed by the Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarkhiv), the archive page lists the numerous archives participating in the project, describes their relevant holdings and provides links to their websites or contact details. The catalogue page offers access to images collated thematically. Themes include: children at war; the Leningrad blockade; the liberation of Europe (subdivided geographically); the partisan movement; the battle of Stalingrad; victory over Japan; Victory Day 9 May 1945; Berlin, from war to peace; the Nuremberg process. Site contents may also be browsed by photographer ('author' in the Russian). Photographers are listed alphabetically, with biographical details where available and clickable thumbnails of their photographs. Most of the photographs are Soviet, but some are of US or German provenance. Each photograph is provided with details of: place and date taken; the subject(s) and photographer (where known); current location and archive number. A links page lists many useful and relevant websites. Site users may give feedback via a forum page. 'About the site' describes the project history and participants.
http://victory.rusarchives.ru/

National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD)

The National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) preserves and provides online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments.

Database management systems are used to gather, store and analyse large amounts of statistical information. This information influences and affects policy and legislation at the highest level, so the databases stored and preserved by NDAD are important evidence of the decision-making processes of UK government.

These documents are free of charge to download.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/datasets.asp

Kennan Institute-National Public Radio Russian History Audio Archive

The Kennan Institute and National Public Radio are pleased to announce the establishment of an online audio archive of Soviet and Russian history. The archive consists of recordings dating back to the earliest years of the Soviet state. Included are the voices and speeches of key political figures, including Lenin, Kerensky, Kirov, Beria, Stalin, Gorbachev, and others. Among the recorded interviews are Anna Larina (Bukharin's widow); Valentin Berezhkov, Stalin's wartime interpreter; Yelena Bonner, Sakharov's widow; and Lev Pevsner, a survivor of the Leningrad Blockade. There is also on-the-scene recorded sound of many events in Soviet history, including: the Russian and American armies meeting at the Elbe; Stalin's funeral; the August 1991 coup against Gorbachev.

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1424&fuseaction=topics.media&group_id=13794

Digital Repository of University of Zaragoza (Spain)

http://zaguan.unizar.es/

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

This site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.

    You can use the search box to quickly search on specific terms, or use the "Search Manuscripts" link to search on particular fields, such as date, or provenance information.

    You can also browse the Catalogue by the Location of an archive or library, the shelfmark of an item, by the author of a text (where that information is available), or by the language of a text (again, where available). 

http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/

Intute - helping you find the best websites for study and research

Humanities provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. No new resources are being added to the catalogue, but existing resources will be checked and broken links will be fixed until July 2011.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/humanities/

Intute is closing July 2011!

Fachinformationen Philosophie - online-Ressourcen

http://www.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/DigiBib/Fachinfo/PhilLink.htm

Immanuel Kant - elektronische Edition seiner Werke

Am Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik (nunmehr aufgegangen im Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften) der Universität Bonn sind die Werke, der Briefwechsel und der handschriftliche Nachlass Immanuel Kants als elektronisch gespeicherter Datensatz vorhanden. Seit 2008 hat Korpora.org die Bereitstellung und Pflege der Daten übernommen.
Die Daten entsprechen weitgehend den ersten drei Abteilungen, also den Bänden 1-23, der Akademie-Ausgabe von Kants Schriften. Sie sind in standardisierter Form mit Unicode und XML kodiert und können über die vorliegende Webseite gelesen und durchsucht werden.
Das Korpus befindet sich in fortlaufender Bearbeitung: In der Kantforschung, besonders im Rahmen einer möglichen Neubearbeitung der Akademie-Ausgabe anfallenden Änderungen werden eingearbeitet und dokumentiert. Hierzu gehören insbesondere Textkorrekturen, Vorschläge für Lesarten, Änderungen und Ergänzungen in den Anmerkungs- und Kommentarteilen sowie Einfügungen und Umstellungen ganzer Textstücke gemäß den Fortschritten der Editionsarbeit. Kodierungsfehler werden, sobald sie auffallen, korrigiert.
http://www.korpora.org/Kant/

Digitale Bibliothek der Universität Wrocław

http://www.digitallibrary.pl/dlibra

GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art

GAMA, the "Gateway to Archives of Media Art" provides access to a wealth of information about the works of both well-known and emerging media artists from European collections of media art. The media art content initially comes from eight European media art archives and can be searched and browsed on this navigation platform. The portal networks different databases housing textual and visual information on more than 10,000 works.
http://www.gama-gateway.eu/index.php?id=10

Manuscriptorium - Europäische Digitale Bibliothek der Handschriften

Das Manuscriptorium-Portal ermöglicht den Zugang zu digitalem schriftlichem Kulturgut wie Handschriften, Inkunabeln, Frühdrucke, Pläne, Urkunden und Archivalien aller Art.
Dieses historische elektronische Quellenmaterial war bislang über viele verschiedene Institutionen verstreut und kann nun erstmals über ein einziges, zentrales Portal recherchiert werden. Damit ist ein uneingeschränkter Zugriff auf mehr als fünf Millionen digitale Bilder möglich.
Die Benutzerfreundlichkeit des Systems bezieht sich sowohl auf die einfache Handhabung bei der Dokumentensuche und deren Darstellung als auch auf die Möglichkeit, persönliche Sammlungen und virtuelle Dokumente anzulegen.
Potentielle Partner können mit Hilfe neu entwickelter Technologien ihre digitalen Inhalte schnell und einfach dem Manuscriptorium-System zuführen.

http://www.manuscriptorium.com/?q=de

3D-Digitalisate der Bayrischen Staatsbibliothek

Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek hütet einen umfangreichen Bestand kostbarster und einzigartiger Handschriften und Druckwerke, die in der Regel nur selten im Rahmen von Ausstellungen gezeigt werden und dem Benutzer ansonsten nicht ohne weiteres zugänglich sind. Konnten bisherige Verfahren als Standard lediglich eine Blätterversion - also eine Abfolge hochauflösender Scans - solcher Werke im Internet anbieten, erlauben es die in Kooperation zwischen dem Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ), der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek und der Microbox GmbH entwickelten Softwarelösungen, hier neue Wege zu gehen. Neben den für die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung unentbehrlichen zweidimensionalen Scans tritt dabei das frei im Raum bewegliche dreidimensionale Modell des Buches, das versucht, das physische Leseerlebnis virtuell nachzubilden.

http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/3D?readmore=false#Clm_835

Fotosammlung der Fotografin Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger

Die Fotosammlung der Fotografin Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger (1906 - 1992) wurde 1986 von der Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg erworben. Sie umfasst ingesamt 8.765 Schwarzweiß-Fotografien aus den Jahren 1923 bis 1984. Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte der Sammlung bilden kulturhistorische und volkskundliche Themen sowie Städte- und Landschaftsaufnahmen aus dem Raum Bayerisch-Schwaben und Altbayern, ferner Reisedokumentationen aus Südeuropa. Dieser Kernbestand der Fotosammlung Groth-Schmachtenberger der Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg liegt erschlossen und digitalisiert auf dem Medienserver vor. 

http://media.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/node?id=17215

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

La Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (BDH) es un recurso en línea de la Biblioteca Nacional de España, que proporciona acceso libre y gratuito a miles de documentos digitalizados, con el propósito final de disponer de una imagen de consulta que agilice y facilite la difusión de los documentos originales que se conservan en su soporte original para asegurar su perdurabilidad.
http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/