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The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) is a research tool that enables a user to find unique and rare digitized materials held at the University of Florida (UF) and partner institutions. With UFDC, remote and local reserarchers can learn about holdings in a physical collection and receive open access to the online full content of the resource. This is a constantly growing collection of resources. The UFDC offers at least thirty collections grouped into several major headings including: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Science and Technology; Maps; Florida; and World. In addition, the UFDC links to external collections through the Publication of Archival Library Museum Materials.

The Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) was founded at the University of Kentucky in 2001. Under the directorship of Professor of Classics Ross Scaife since July 2005, the mission of RCH is to provide infrastructure, technical assistance, and grant writing assistance to university faculty who wish to undertake humanities computing projects, and to encourage and support interdisciplinary projects among individuals and groups from UK and around the world.

The Digital & Multimedia Center of the Michigan State University Libraries serves both the MSU community and the world-wide academic community through digitization projects that preserve scholarly resources and make them more widely available. The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library is the largest academic voice library in the nation. It houses taped utterances (speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts, etc) by over 50,000 persons from all walks of life recorded over 100 years.

The Native Writers Digital Text Project brings the works of Native poets and writers of fiction and other prose to readers world wide. Featuring out-of-print literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people of Canada, the project seeks to broaden the definition of “Native Writing” not only by focusing on writers who are not ordinarily anthologized, but also by publishing works which originally appeared in “ephemeral” sources andthe periodical press, especially in those publications edited and produced by Natives.

Listed below are online collections from Northwestern University Library. In some cases the collections may be restricted to the Northwestern Community . Collections are approved for digitization by the Digital Library Committee. Questions about digital library projects may be directed to M. Claire Stewart, Head of Digital Collections at Northwestern University Library. 16th - 20th Century Maps of Africa Africana Poster Collection Archival collections Chemical History in Chicago Chicago Homer DVaction Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images Digital Text History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents The Paris Codex Siege of Paris Vesalius: On the Fabric of the Human Body Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century World War II Poster Collection

The Ewell Sale Stewart Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences houses many rare, beautiful, and important works on the natural sciences, books that most people will never see in their lifetimes. These books were published over the last five centuries, and document the discovery of plant and animal species by early explorers as they traveled the world. By publishing the pages from these books digitally and providing access on the web, the Library hopes to share them with scientists, scholars, and the public.

The AMNH Digital Library was launched in 1999 to develop an integrated database of library resources and natural history collections. The digital library will enable scientists, scholars, and educators working anywhere in the world to study unique and rare research materials from the Museum's Library and scientific collections.

ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.

The Ryhiner map collection is one of the most valuable and outstanding collections of the world. It consists of more than 16,000 maps, charts, plans and views from the 16th to the 18th century, covering the whole globe. Together with the 20,000 manuscript maps of the State Archives, the Canton of Berne owns not only a local, but a worldwide geographical memory.