Interdisciplinary Sites
On this page, you'll find sites from learned institutions in a wide range of subject matter
This page:
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Open Archives / Digital Libraries |
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Colleges and Universities
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Museums
Open Archives / Digital Libraries
These sites collect all kinds of scholarly materials — preprints, e-prints, dissertations, library collections — and make them available in searchable archives. Much of this material, however, cannot be found with general search engines. Also, What is Open Access? by Charles W. Bailey, Jr
Archives of Archives:
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - A collection of
state/regional and subject-matter hubs of digital materials [dp.la]
- Europeana -
Treasures from libraries, archives, museums, and universities of Europe
- Internet Archive - Audio, video, live music, software,
texts, archived web pages
Exemplars:
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- New York Public Library Digital
Collections
- Gallica - Digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Trove - Emphasizes Australian materials, such as
newspapers, theses, archived web sites (National Library of Australia)
- World Digital Library - Treasures from national and academic
libraries
- Ibiblio - Collections in many
subjects
- Open Content on JSTOR - Open access books and journals; journals out of copyright
Search Engines:
- CORE (COnnecting REpositories) - "Aggregating the world's open access research papers," this is an index of millions of documents from thousands of journals and repositories
- OAIster - A database
of millions of documents in hundreds of
open-archive repositories
- ARC: A Cross Archive Search Service - Experimental index of various archives (Old
Dominion University)
- BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- e-Prints UK Search - Searches U.K. open archives
- JURN - "Millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses"; searches open access journals and institutional repositories
- Public Knowledge Project Open Archives Harvester - Database of open-archive
repositories, many of them in Spanish and Portuguese
Directories, etc. of Open Archives:
- IMLS Digital Collections Registry (University of Illinois)
- OAI Registry at UIUC
- OAI Viewer - Choose an open-archive repository, get some recent records, even an RSS feed if
you want. This is an experimental project from OCLC
- Open Access Directory - Lists of open-access
journals and repositories
- OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
- Registry of Open Acccess Repositories (ROAR) (eprints.org, University of Southampton)
Background, How-To:
- Inside CDL - Best practices, glossaries, etc. from the California Digital Library
- Open-Access Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (regularly updated)
- Open Archives Initiative (OAI) - Find out more about the OAI-PMH metadata standard, which
makes open archives work together
- Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) - How and why to preserve digital
materials (National Library of Australia)
- The Signal - Library of Congress blog about its digital projects
Prizes
Scholarly Societies