Discipline-oriented digital libraries

project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores

digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Internet Archive

collaborative site for sharing musical scores

digital library, online database and large-scale digitization project for biodiversity literature

database

Web archive of public domain sheet music

LacusCurtius is the ancient Graeco-Roman part of a large history website, hosted as of March 2025 on a server at the University of Chicago. Starting in 1995, as of January 2004 it gave "access to more than 594 photos, 559 drawings and engravings, 69 plans, and 59 maps". The overall site is the creation of William P. Thayer.

online open-access digital library of pre-modern Chinese texts, created and administered by D Sturgeon, hosted in UK

website

AnimalBase is a project brought to life in 2004 and is maintained by the University of Göttingen, Germany. The goal of the AnimalBase project is to digitize early zoological literature, provide copyright-free open access to zoological works, and provide manually verified lists of names of zoological genera and species as a free resource for the public. AnimalBase contributed to opening up the classical taxonomic literature, which is considered as useful because access to early literature (especially for the late 18th century) can be difficult for researchers who need the old sources for their

yale University digital library of law, history and diplomacy

US Department of Education online repository

INSPIRE-HEP is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics (HEP). It is the successor of the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) database, the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970s.

American nonprofit organization

three year project to improve access to biodiversity literature

Libcom.org is an online platform featuring a variety of libertarian communist essays, blog posts, and archives, primarily in English. It was founded in 2005 by editors in the United States and the United Kingdom. Libcom.org also has a forum and social media features including the ability to comment on post and upload original articles. In contrast with traditional archives, anarchistic archival practices embrace "use as preservation", making use of digital technology to host niche political material in online repositories like Libcom.org.

one of the world's largest private map collections