- Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources - List of references originally compiled by Steven Ketchpel at Stanford University, forms part of a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science.
- ARL Digital Initiatives Database - A registry of projects, provided jointly by the University of Illinois and the Association of Research Libraries with predominantly US-based submissions.
- Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) - BASE provides integrated access to distributed collections of various type and format (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals etc.) by applying search engine technology in the context of scholarly search- and retrieval services.
- British Columbia Digital Library - Guide to full-text collections and resources, including software tools and standards by the British Columbia Community Networks Association; also dedicated to the digitization and storage of local publications.
- Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries - An alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations to promote, coordinate and facilitate the development of collections and services. Site contains general information with links to members' projects and further resources; also available in French.
- Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE) - Based at the University of North Carolina, the center is interested in the migration, management, and accessibility of digital information. It serves as a test bed for the development of new methodologies and also focuses on training and education by collaborating with other academic units, companies and organizations. The site includes some research publications, news, and further information and links.
- Center for the Study of Digital Libraries - Established in 1995 at Texas A&M University and builds upon research developed in the Hypermedia Research Laboratory established in 1987. Includes research, publications, events and course information.
- Colorado Digitization Project - A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of local archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Includes guidelines, standards, resources and links to further information.
- DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP5) - An initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework Programme (IST-FP5) to support and encourage research activities.
- DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP6) - An initiative funded by the European Union's Information Society Technologies 6th Framework Programme to integrate and coordinate ongoing research activities within Europe and disseminate knowledge.
- Desire Project - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education. This project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between partners at ten institutions from four European countries. Site includes publications, handbook and development toolkit.
- DIGI-EVAL - Mailing list to support the eVALUEd project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives.
- DigiCULT Forum - Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is a 30-month European funded project to monitor and assess existing and emerging technologies to benefit the cultural heritage sector between March 2002 and August 2004. The site includes reports, current awareness, events and links to further resources.
- Digital and Preservation Online Resource Center - Provided by the OCLC Digitization & Preservation Outreach Center, this site hosts information about copyright, digitization, grants assistance, preservation and news and events.
- Digital collections and programs: Library functions - Building digital collections at the Library of Congress.
- Digital Cultural Content Forum - A forum that seeks to assume a leadership role in disseminating practice and building consensus amongst individuals and agencies active in digitization and online dissemination of cultural heritage resources.
- Digital Cultural Heritage Community - Provides materials from East Central Illinois museums and libraries in support of elementary school social studies curricula, as well as workshops and training materials to help teachers integrate materials into class exercises.
- Digital Curation Centre (DDC) - A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice.
- Digital Himalaya - A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
- Digital Libraries Initiative - Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
- Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2 (DLI2) - Resources and projects funded by the National Science Foundation.
- Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects - Collection of links provided by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
- Digital Library Competence Center (DLibCenter) - The center provides specific user communities with access to advanced technologies, services, expertise and knowledge with courses for librarians, archivists, scholars and technicians. The site is available in English and Italian.
- Digital Library Development Lab - Projects at the University of Minnesota.
- Digital Library Federation - Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials.
- Digital Library Initiatives - Planning information, project examples, publications and links at North Carolina State University.
- Digital Library Projects at Columbia - A selection of Columbia Information Services digital projects and initiatives.
- Digital Preservation Coalition - Aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK. Includes background information on the coalition, their program of work, details of their administration, how interested parties can participate, and the full-text of the Preservation of Digital Materials handbook.
- Digital Reference Services Bibliography - List of more than 400 references to articles about online or virtual reference services by Bernie Sloan from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
- Digital Services Project - Program documents from the National Library of Australia.
- Digiwik: The Digitization Wiki - Provides a forum for description and discussion of practical digitization issues and digital collection management.
- DIGLIB Mailing List - For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
- DLib Forum and DLib Magazine - The forum hosts a working group on metrics, a test suite for online research and list of further references. The web magazine is published monthly and covers news, innovation and research.
- DSpace: Durable Digital Depository - A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Site includes mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, news and staff information.
- eVALUEd - Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage.
- Handbook for Digital Projects - From the Northeast Document Conservation Center, a manual for preservation and access, 1st edition, edited by Maxine K. Sitts.
- Informedia-II Digital Video Library - Research at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization.
- Interactive Digital Library Resource Information System (i-DLR) - A collection of resources created by graduate students at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
- Journal of Digital Information (JODI) - A peer reviewed e-journal supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press.
- KCL Digital Consultancy Service (KDCS) - Established at King's College London in September 2003, KDCS carries out research and provides fee-based consultancy services in the area of digitisation and digital resource management. The site includes project examples, consultancy information and research publications.
- King's Digital Consultancy Services - Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK.
- LOCKSS Permanent Publishing on the Web - Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems.
- MALIBU (MAnaging the hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of Users) - A collaborative project led by King's College with partners in Oxford University and the University of Southampton.
- MarcOnt Initiative - Ontology development based on a social agreement that will combine descriptions from MARC21 together with DublinCore and makes use of the full potential of the Semantic Web technologies.
- Minnesota Digital Library Project - An initiative to assist archives, historical societies, and libraries digitize and provide coordinated access to valuable information resources reflecting the cultural heritage of Minnesota.
- National Digital Library Program - Program information and resources for the Library of Congress digitization programs.
- NINCH Guide to Good Practice - guidance in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
- NSDL Communication Portal - Provides users and developers of the National Science Digital Library with an online collaborative area, including public workspaces, discussion forums, and support.
- Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) - Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory. Project areas include Human-Document Interaction (HDI), Natural Language Theory and Technology (NLTT), Quantitative Content Analysis, Sparrow Web, Statistical Pattern and Image Analysis, and User Interface Research. Site includes internship and employment information as well as full project information and activities.
- Parity Computing - Communications company based in San Diego, focused on digital library technologies including complete turn-key solutions and customized services. Main clients include IEEE, Springer-Verlag, and ACM.
- Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (Paradigm) - A JISC-funded project of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester to produce an online workbook on Digital Private Papers of use to libraries and archives in preserving digital research materials.
- Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) - Hosted by the National Library of Australia and directed by an international advisory group, PADI provides access to a wide range of digital preservation resources.
- Research Institute on Digital Libraries (RIDL) - Institute based at the University of Middlesex working on various funded projects concerning the design and use of Digital Libraries.
- Russian Digital Libraries Journal - Electronic journal containing information on research and use of digital libraries.
- Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries - Interdisciplinary environment designed to address research and educational issues relevant to development, understanding and implementation.
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. - Section 6.2 of the list of references by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. based at the University of Houston Libraries.
- Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project - Documents and information on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information.
- Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) - Supports the academic community on the creation, storage and delivery of image-related information, and also offers digitisation advice.
- Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (Ticer BV) - Centre based at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, whose primary activities include consultancy and organising an annual international summer school, and other courses and seminars.
- Touch and Turn - A Swedish company based in Stockholm that delivers software solutions for virtual browsing with touch screen technology, publishes rare books and develops Internet based services for mediation.
- UC Berkeley Digital Library Project - Site includes information about the project, services, collections and technologies as well as a seminar series provided to students.
- UIUC Digital Library Testbed - Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- UKOLN Metadata Group - Selection Criteria for Quality Controlled Information Gateways - Report describes methods and tools created to assist the staff of subject gateways to develop and maintain their quality control systems.
- University of Michigan Digital Library Project - A NSF/ARPA/NASA-sponsored project incorporating basic research, system building, deployment, and evaluation of a usable digital library. The UMDL provides access to significant public domain collections of scientific data and information.
- Washington State Library Digital Best Practices - A guide to major decision points in planning a digital project, ranging from administrative factors to technology concerns to financial management.
- WebArchivist - A research and software development group based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology that works with scholars, librarians and archivists interested in preserving and analyzing materials created for and distributed on the Web. Creates web-based tools, helps with project design and procedures, and develops institutional policies necessary to complete these tasks.
Media publications
- A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. - Martha Brogan provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user. (Published 2003.12.12)
- Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library - Proceedings of the international conference organised by UKOLN, held 16th and 17th June 1997, London. Full text provides broad historical perspective. (Published 1998.01.19)
- Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources - A report by Louis A. Pitschmann that identifies and synthesizes existing practices used in developing collections of free third-party Internet resources that support higher education and research. (Published 2001.06.00)
- Digilib 2003 - Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, the Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments is held in Espoo, Finland. (Published 2003.09.08)
- Digital Library Tool Kit - 3rd Edition of the report by Dr. Peter Noerr, sponsored by Sun Microsystems in PDF format. (Published 2003.01.00)
- Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation/British Library Funded Study - Research project to investigate the nature, manifestations, and behavior of successive users in digital environments, and to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behavior. (Published 1998.04.00)
- NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative - Describes the Digital Libraries Initiative and focuses on how management can implement it. (Published 1998.07.00)
- Realizing the Hybrid Library - Paper discusses the hybrid library model of information provision, outlining a number of eLib funded projects and covering key technological and managerial issues. (Published 1998.10.00)
- Selection Criteria for Web-Based Resources in a Science and Technology Library Collection - Article discusses reasons to include Internet-based resources in a science and technology library collection. (Published 1998.00.00)
- The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people, Ariadne Issue 30 - Report on a selection of papers presented in Washington at the 2001 IFLA pre-conference for the Section of Libraries for the Blind (SLB). (Published 2001.12.20)
- Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies. - The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) publication No 120 provides a summary and analysis of more than 200 recent research publications that focus on the use of electronic library resources, published between 1995 and 2003. (Published 2003.08.00)