Digitization Projects

 Digital Collections - Bavarian State Library
The Munich Digitization Center (MDZ) is a part of the Digital Library unit of the Bavarian State Library and is responsible for its digital holdings. It also offers advice and support on digitization projects.

Digitale Sammlungen - Wikisource
An extensive list of digital collections worldwide which offer at least one German language printed book without copyright

Digitale Sammlungen - Württembergische Landesbibliothek
Selected retrodigitized objects from the collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart

Digitalisierungsprojekte - Bestandsaufnahme
A list of various digitization projects in Germany which are based on the criteria used for the Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke

Digitalisierungsprojekte und thematische Portale
Subject portals and digitization projects of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

DigiZeitschriften
Primarily a resource for back issues of core scholarly journals (University network access only)

Europeana
Europeana brings alive Europe's culture and history with images, sounds, texts, and films from various European museum, archive, and library collections.

Gallica
A French counterpart to Google Books (see below)

Google Books
Google's controversial project involves the mass digitization of printed matter.

AustriaN Newpapers Online
Digitized historical Austrian newspapers and journals

Open Library
A bold project designed to create a virtual library (analog to Wikipedia) with details on every book ever written. If copyright allows, a copy is available to download.

retro-Bibliothek
Retrodigitized reference material dating from around 1900 (Brockhaus, Meyers Konversationslexikon, etc.)

World Digital Library
This collaborative project involving the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and UNESCO provides culturally important documents from around the world (such as books, recordings, films, photos, etc.) on the Internet. It expressly promotes the inclusion of objects from non-Western countries.

Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke
Retrodigitized library collections