Global Digital Libraries
Explore the World Digital LibraryOpen Digital Libraries
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HathiTrust"HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world."
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DPLA: Digital Public Library of AmericaThe DPLA makes works from America's libraries, archives, and museums freely available to the world. Search for photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more resources.
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EuropeanaEuropeana provides images, texts, sounds, and videos collected from Europe's leading galleries, archives, libraries, and museums.
Global Digital Library Partners and Content
Resources and collaborations with the Penn Libraries on global digitization efforts.
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CRL Digital CollectionsAccess journals, books, newspapers, and other documents online through the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
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Library of Congress: World Digital LibraryBrowse digital content from around the world, by time period, topic, type of item, or contributing institution.
Open Access Tracking Project
Using social tagging, the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) creates a feed which tracks new open access developments in real time.
Guides to Public Access Images, Text, and Resources
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Finding Open Access Images GuideThis guide gives resources for finding and using public domain, creative commons, and other open access images.
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Creative CommonsSearch for images from flickr with a variety of Creative Commons licenses.
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The Public Domain ReviewThe Public Domain Review is a fortnightly online newsletter featuring articles and curated publicly accessible collections (including images, texts, films, audio, etc.).
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ROARThe Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a searchable directory of open access repositories around the world.
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DOAJSearch for journals and articles from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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DOABSearch for books in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).