Sources for Scan Harvesting
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This page lists sources that have been identified by DP volunteers as possible image sources for new projects. However, these sources have not yet been approved by DP for new projects. Do not attempt to CP a book from one of the sources listed on this page without first having the source approved using this form.
See the Image Sources Script Listing for an up-to-date list of approved sources for Project Managers to select from when creating a project. This script listing will always be up to date, and only sources on that list may be used in DP projects.
List of Unapproved Sources
The lists below are of unapproved sources. If you want to use one of the sources listed below, you must first Propose a new image source using this form. See the form field descriptions for more information on the types of information that should be included in the request.
Aggregators
These pages contain links to books hosted on other sites. Note that the site you ultimately harvest from must be approved.
- Online Books Page
- At upenn. A good place to search for titles
- Digital Book Index
- The site states: "Digital Book Index provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free."
General Archives
General archives of public domain texts:
- Liam's Pictures from Old Books (English?)
- Over 150 high-resolution public domain images scanned from old books! (Most are not complete books--are there any?)
- Mateo - Mannheimer Texte Online (German, Latin)
- Mixture of German and Latin works, however most being from 16-17th century might be OCR challenges
Subject Matter Archives
Archives that collect documents on a particular subject matter:
Geographical Archives
Archives about particular countries, regions, or cultures:
- Australian Studies SETIS (English)
- Australian Studies Resources at the University of Sydney Library's Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS).
- Digital South Asia Library
- South Asian region and languages
- Historic Pittsburgh - Full Text Collection at UPitt.edu
- no permission :?:
Historical Archives
Archives about specific historical figures, events, or periods
- Francis Drake (various languages)
- Stuff related to Francis Drake, from the U.S. Library of Congress
Science, Engineering and Mathematics Archives
- Digital Mathematics Archive (English?)
- The Digital Mathematics Archive is a digital collection of mathematical sources, with a primary focus on documents from the late 19th century through today. -- not a secure site
- Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
- Two largeish collections of pre-1923 engineering related periodicals. All material on the site is under Creative Commons. The Engineer magazine, UK, published from 1856 - 1985 and [http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Engineering_(Bound_Volumes) Engineering magazine, UK, published from 1866 - 1983. Several scans of this periodical are also available on Wikimedia commons. durgledoggy intended to see what could be done with these. However "real life" prevents much activity on the project. So these are welcome to be done by anyone interested.
- Stuebers Online Library (German and English)
- 442 Biology books mainly German; some English, Dutch, Latin. Some are already digitized (turned to text); most are jpeg scans. Permission for working on these works is available; site owner requests to receive text versions when done. As usual, we need to our own copyright clearance. This site is careful to only include works PD in the EU (life + 70 years rule).
- VintageMachinery.org
- Lots of catalogues, ephemera, manuals and references for machining, machinists, metal and wood working. Most are good quality high resolution grey scale scans with a lot of illustration and table content. Many are from after 1923, but there are a good deal (perhaps half of them) from before 1923.
- Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
- Issues online back to 1865. Was once free for a limited time but most (all?) public domain content appears to be behind a paywall.
Miscellaneous Subject Matter Archives
- Internet Scout Project (English?)
- From The Scout Report
- Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read
- no permission?
Language Archives
Archives of documents in a particular language:
Dutch Archives
See Online collections for Dutch texts
German Archives
- Universität Tübingen (German)
- German books and manuscripts
Latin Archives
- CAMENA Online-Editionen (Latin)
- Latin poetry
Spanish Archives
- Academia Argentina de Letras (Español-Spanish)
- Obras en español - Works in Spanish.
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish-Español)
- Obras en castellano -- Works in Spanish.
Other/Multiple Languages
- Indo-European Language Resources (Various languages)
- Some of them have been done before for PG. I don't think the author of the site is as pedantic with copyright; as PG, so not all of them are clearable. Most of them are going to be pains to do through here, as making them fit in Latin-1 was not a concern (update: this is no longer relevant in the Unicode era).
Defunct Archives
The archives here were identified by DP volunteers but the links provided are broken. Some research may be needed to discover if they have moved or been taken completely offline.
- Antique Books (English)
- WARNING: link now appears to be a phishing site.
- ELEKTRA (Danish)
- Danish books and manuscripts
- European Illustrated Books and Manuscripts (Various languages)
- Manuscripts and Printed Books from Keio UL. Original URL no longer operational; possibly should be this?
- Fondo Antiguo: Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla
- Latin, Spanish. They seem to have digitized their older volumes, and plan to do all the important ones. -- Linked URL no longer available. Possibly https://bib.us.es/machado/fondo_antiguo
- GDZ (German, English, Franch, Latin)
- Variety of non-fiction works. Mostly German, some English, French and Latin.
- Hellinomnimon (Greek)
- Digital Library of Greek Philosophical and Scientific Books and Manuscripts (1600-1821). The list of available books and authors is here (in Greek)
- Hockliffe Project (English)
- No information
- Johannes A Lasco Bibliothek (German, Latin)
- German and Latin books (pre-1600)
- National Academies Press (English)
- No information.
- National Transportation Library - Digital Collection (English)
- No information.
- New England History and Geneaology (English) ==
- Genealogical books, and links to related sites.
- Oak Knoll
- Digital Books about Books
- Our Roots / Nos Racines: Canada's Local Histories Online (English and French)
- permission. Desired credit line unknown.
- Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (English?)
- Books and text from the 9th through 20th Centuries.
- Seforim Online (Primarily Hebrew, but some English and German and possibly other languages)
- Blanket permission; however, there's copyright and possibly copyright material mixed in.
- Swedish imprints before 1700 (Swedish)
- Swedish books (pre-1700) (Requires FlashPix browser plugin)
- Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain (Spanish, Italian, Latin)
- Nearly 1900 scanned items, with dates (which is handy for us historical sorts). To navigate the list, type a number into the box next to the "IR A UNA ENTRADA" button. This next URL is the list sorted by date: http://aands.org/booksucmspain.html Hacer una buscada de los recursos digitales de la biblioteca
- Universität Freimore (German)
- German manuscripts
- University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries: Digital Library Collections (English)
- Many of the texts available here are early accounts of local and regional history.
- University of New Mexico & Cooper Ornithological Society Texts (English)
- Books and journals about birds.
- United States Government Publication Digitization Projects Registry
- A listing of many projects that are producing scans, and sometimes text, of U.S. government publications, all of which are automatically in the public domain.
- Warburg Institute Library Digital Collection
- 108 books so far, mostly Latin and Italian
- Yale Medical Historical Library (English?)
- The Historical Library contains a large and unique collection of rare medical books, medical journals to 1920, and other items.
- MBG Rare books (Various languages)
- Books on Botany from a number of languages.
