Wikisource:Sources

Sources

With Pagescan

Database	Proofing quality	Pagescans	Notes
Anarchy Archives	good	partial	Some works are under copyright
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)	excellent	Yes	Mostly French-language works, with some English. Page image viewer with PDF downloads available.
Biodiversity Heritage Library	excellent	Yes	BHL in flickr / BHL Blog
British History Online	excellent	no	Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles
British Library	excellent	yes	Run search, then refine the access options to "online" and the format to "book", pdf though may need deriving to djvu at Internet Archive (announcement)
Cambridge Digital Library	excellent	yes	Need to download image by image. Click on thumbnail and then you can get the link to the full image and build the download.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library	excellent	yes	Many formats available
CrossAsia @ University of Heidelberg	n/a	yes	Mostly Asian studies-related with PDF downloads
Digital Bodleian	n/a	excellent	Over a million pages, including very old English manuscripts. Can download as PDF.
Digital Book Index	variable	variable	This is really a meta-search, which links to texts in other locations
Digital Collections	excellent	partial	From Library of Congress
Distributed Proofreaders	excellent	some	List of available sources
Family history books	n/a	yes	Plus local histories. Predominantly PDF works; some have text layers (raw OCR), not all
Google Books	poor	yes	Not all texts are in the public domain. Many texts are only partly available.
HathiTrust	variable	yes	PDF downloads only for members of certain institutions. Haiti Trust will mark PDF with your institution, the date accessed, and other information. You can download individual page images using the URL scheme https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/image?id={ID};seq={N};size=10000;rotation=0.
Internet Archive	poor	yes	Most texts are raw OCR without proofreading
Library of Liberty	good	yes	Some works are under copyright
Modernist Journals Project	n/a	yes	Images stored in the format https://repository.library.brown.edu/iiif/image/bdr:Image_Number/full/,Image_Size/0/default.jpg . There is no default upper limit although most images have a maximum value of 3500 (increment is by 50).
UK Government Statute Law database	excellent	some	Many are Crown Copyright (expires after 50 years)
Universal Digital Library	poor	yes	Some works are under copyright (copyright status is indicated), many non-English works
University of Bielefeld	n/a	yes
University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)	n/a	yes	Image viewer with PDF downloads
University of Hong Kong Libraries	n/a	yes	No evident main page for this repository so use a domain-scoped Google search. See also some Wikisource community notes about downloading from this repository.
University of Michigan library	NA	yes	Pagescans only
Washington State Historical Records Project	poor	yes	Many copyright expired historical works scanned at usable quality. Mostly northwestern US history, but not exclusively; some non-English.
Wilbourhall	excellent	yes	Classical works in several languages and translations, including Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, etc.
World Digital Library	n/a	yes
Archaeological Survey of India	n/a	yes	pdf files of good quality; covering many subjects and many countries; some works under copyright
Digital Library of India	n/a	yes	Pages in TIFF format; requires TIFF reader for online page-by-page viewing and saving; requires DLI downloader for downloading PDF. Huge collection; variable scan quality; many copyrighted works
Digital Library of India ERNET	Good	yes	PDF books. Claims all books copyright expired. (5,50,000 books)
Maine Music Box	good	yes	collection of more than 22,000 musical works, consisting primarily of sheet music
Trinity's Access to Research Archive	good	yes	contains many Irish works
State Library of Western Australia	n/a	yes	mostly works concerning Australia, downloads as PDF
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Images (SCETI)	n/a	yes	Mostly individual images. The advanced search is easier to use.
Northern Illinois University Dime Novels	good	yes	Collection of w:dime novels. OCR not included in PDFs, but is available separately.

Without Pagescan

Database	Proofing quality	Pagescans	Notes
Baldwin Project	excellent	no	Children's books
Bartleby	excellent	No	Texts not already imported are listed at User:Quadell/Bartleby.
Bibliomania	good	no	Mostly reuses Gutenberg content
Dinsmore Documentation	excellent	no	Professional proofreaders, showing off their work
History Sourcebooks	good	no	Despite frequent © notices, texts are in the public domain
ibiblio	excellent	no	19th Century Works on Indian history written by British authors.
Literature Network	good	no	Includes biographies and photos of authors
Project Gutenberg	variable	No	Texts proofed by the Distributed Proofreaders are of excellent quality. Others are less reliable.
Sacred Texts	excellent	no	includes original images
University of Virgina library	excellent	no	Many texts are only available to UV students and staff
Wake Forest University library	excellent	no	Many texts are annotated
Yale Law School's Avalon Project	good	no	Some works are under copyright

Periodicals

• UPenn Online Books Page Serials Catalogue: links to other sources of many periodicals.
• Modernist Journals: collection of journals from 1890 to 1922.
• British Newspaper Archive: collection of British newspapers from the 1700s onwards
  • Some newspapers are free to view: a free account is needed. There is a list of titles at the end of this page
• Newspapers.com: access provided thorough the Wikipedia Library. You need to request access to this resource via the Wikipedia Library portal.
• NewspaperArchive.com: access provided thorough the Wikipedia Library. You need to request access to this resource via the Wikipedia Library portal.
• JSTOR (via the Wikipedia Library)
• Advantage Preservation. Large collection of American local newspapers.
• World Radio History. Radio and broadcasting periodicals

Specific collections

• Archives of American Art
• Joshua Slocum books
• Letters of Van Gogh
• Letters of the Tudor family
• Letters of Louis Riel
• Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology
• McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought (not all are public domain, but many are)

Local interest

Nebraska

See also: Portal:Nebraska

• Nebraska Newspapers

North Carolina

See also: Wikisource:WikiProject North Carolina

• Digital NC (newspapers, yearbooks, city directories, ...)
• North Carolina Digital Collections (state documents, periodicals, books, ...)
• NC Live (newspapers, journals, books, ...)

Oregon

See also: Wikisource:WikiProject Oregon

• Historic Oregon Newspapers

Pennsylvania

See also: Portal:Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive

Bibliographies

• Bibliographies listed in the Eighteen Volumes The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Other resources

Although these sites don't provide source texts, they may be useful to Wikisourcerors in other ways.

• LibriVox - public domain recordings of public domain works, in both mp3 and ogg.
  • Upload the ogg files to the Commons, tagging the files with {{LibriVox public domain}}, and then use {{listen|Soundfile.ogg}} in the notes field of the work here on Wikisource.
  • See also Help:LibriVox.
• WebCite - may be used to preserve online or e-published text (example).

See also

• User:BeatrixBelibaste/Digital libraries