Six most popular digital libraries and what makes them special
Digital libraries are the best way to save time and access various information across genres. The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation has shared 6 most popular digital libraries nationwide. Know the names of them and what makes them unique.
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The World Digital Library: WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress. The project brings together, on a single website, rare and unique documents – books, journals, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, films, and sound recordings – that tell the story of the world’s cultures.
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Universal Digital Library: The goal of this library is to provide support for full-text indexing and searching based on optical character recognition (OCR) technologies where available. The availability of online search allows users to locate relevant information quickly and reliably, thus enhancing users’ success in their research endeavours.
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Bartleby: Developed by Barnes & Noble Education, Inc., this digital library is a student success hub. This platform provides access to millions of step-by-step textbook solutions, a vast, searchable Q&A library, and subject matter experts on standby 24/7 to answer homework questions thoroughly.
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Ibiblio: This is a public library and digital archive where you can get free information on various topics including music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. With between 12 million and 16 million worldwide daily transactions, it is a resource used frequently by audiences of all interests and backgrounds.
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Google Books Library Project: Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned and converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR) and stores them in its digital database. Books are provided either by publishers and authors or by Google’s library partners through the Library Project.
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Internet Archive: This digital library is a non-profit website that provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Books published before 1923 are available for download, and hundreds of thousands of modern books can be borrowed through the Open Library site.