The Universal Library is created to foster creativity and
free access to all human knowledge. It provides a free-to-
read, searchable collection of one million books, available
to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is
expected that the collection will grow to 10 Million books.
The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in
the world 24x7, without regard to nationality or
socioeconomic background.
The Center for International Collections (CIC) currently
maintains five separate databases covering various aspects
of Asia, all of which are freely accessible to the public.
The purpose of these specialized databases is to promote and
enhance public access to the CIC’s extensive holdings by
making full use of all the latest available tools and
technologies.
Started in 2006, ChurchChina is an online magazine that is
concerned with the
current state and development of Christian churches in
China. It has professional theological articles from
scholars as well as autobiographical ones for general
readers.
Modeled after the Library of Congress Classification
Schedules, this guide categorizes 1700+ entries of
databases, websites and archives in an order that's
convenient for research.It includes contemporary, modern and
premodern time periods. Unfortunately, the guide has stopped
updating itself since 2009.
The International Dunhuang Project is an international
digitization project that aims to promote the study and
preservation of manuscripts
and printed documents from Dunhuang and other Central Asian
sites through global cooperation. Beginning in 1994, IDP has
till now made tens of thousands of images together with
catalogues, translations, historical photographs,
archaeological site plans and much
more freely available to all on the Internet.
The Directory of Open Access Repositories, or OpenDOAR, is
\an authoritative directory of academic open access
repositories\. An institutional digital repository helps
to capture, manage, preserve and disseminate the
intellectual output created by community members
of the host institution. OpenDOARS makes it easy to
identify institutional repositories, either by
\Search(ing) for Repositories\ or browsing the \repository
list\ . But more than that, the portal makes it possible
to \Search Repository Contents\, by which users can
HathiTrust is a big digital repository that brings together
the immense collections of 22 major US universities. The
digital collections of Hathi now contain fulltext of more
than two million books. Due to copyright concerns, only 16%
of the books can deliver their fulltexts to readers. Certain
amount of fulltexts can be accessed by members of registered
institutes.
The Internet Archive is a is a non-profit library of
millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites,
and more. Its purposes include offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities,
and the general public to historical collections that exist
in digital format.
Undertaken by two Austrian scholars, Dr. Monika Lehner and
Dr. George Lehner, both of whom are experts with Chinese
rare books, Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 is a project that aims at
collecting information and links of freely available e-books
on China and Sino-Western encounters from various open
access repositories.
VIA is a growing online union catalogue at Harvard
University Library, documenting the arts, material
culture,
and social history. It contains descriptive records and
images representing paintings, sculpture, photography,
drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade
cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans from
participating archives, museums, libraries, and other
collections throughout Harvard University. Included are
thousands of digital images on China, Japan, and Korea.