| Database |
Proofing
quality |
Pagescans |
Notes
|
|---|
| American Memory |
excellent |
partial |
From Library of Congress
|
| Anarchy Archives |
good |
partial |
Some works are under copyright
|
| Bibliothèque nationale de France |
excellent |
Yes |
|
| Biodiversity Heritage Library |
excellent |
Yes |
BHL in flickr / BHL Blog
|
| British History Online |
excellent |
no |
Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles
|
| British Library |
variable |
yes |
Run search, then refine the access options to "online" and the format to "book", pdf though may need deriving to djvu at Internet Archive (announcement)
|
| Christian Classics Ethereal Library |
excellent |
yes |
Many formats available
|
| Digital Book Index |
variable |
variable |
This is really a meta-search, which links to texts in other locations
|
| Distributed Proofreaders |
excellent |
some |
List of available sources
|
| Family history books |
n/a |
yes |
Plus local histories. Predominantly PDF works; some have text layers (raw OCR), not all
|
| Google Books |
poor |
yes |
Not all texts are in the public domain. Many texts are only partly available.
|
| Hathi Trust |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a
|
| Internet Archive |
poor |
yes |
Most texts are raw OCR without proofreading
|
| Library of Liberty |
good |
yes |
Some works are under copyright
|
| UK Government Statute Law database |
excellent |
some |
Many are Crown Copyright
|
| Universal Digital Library |
poor |
yes |
Some works are under copyright (copyright status is indicated), many non-English works
|
| University of Hong Kong Libraries |
n/a |
yes |
No evident main page for this repository so use a domain-scoped Google search. See also some Wikisource community notes about downloading from this repository.
|
| University of Michigan library |
NA |
yes |
Pagescans only
|
| Washington State Historical Records Project |
poor |
yes |
Many copyright expired historical works scanned at usable quality. Mostly northwestern US history, but not exclusively; some non-English.
|
| Wilbourhall |
excellent |
yes |
Classical works in several languages and translations, including Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, etc.
|
| World Digital Library |
n/a |
yes
|
| Archaeological Survey of India |
n/a |
yes |
pdf files of good quality; covering many subjects and many countries; some works under copyright
|
| Digital Library of India |
n/a |
yes |
Pages in tif format; requires tif reader for online page-by-page viewing and saving; requires DLI downloader for downloading pdf. Huge collection; variable scan quality; many copyrighted works
|
| Digital Library of India ERNET |
Good |
yes |
PDF books. Claims all books copyright expired. (5,50,000 books)
|
| Maine Music Box |
good |
yes |
collection of more than 22,000 musical works, consisting primarily of sheet music
|
| Trinity's Access to Research Archive |
good |
yes |
contains many Irish works
|
