HathiTrust is a shared digital repository created by major research libraries. It offers searching of the full text of books and full access to works in the public domain.
The Digital Library of India proposes to create a Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages.
Launched in April 2000, to record the voices of South Asian authors for the Library of Congress' Archive of Recorded World Literature, the project has captured the readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights.
Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. A rich source of material on the East India Company.
This database contains more than 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes), which includes books, essays, pamphlets, broadsides and more. A good source for primary sources on South Asia.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online brings together rare primary source materials – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs and more – from the “long” nineteenth century (1789-1914) and beyond
Each collection contains multiple works on Tibetan literature which have been assembled specifically to be incorporated into institutional libraries. Each collection comprises roughly 1000 volumes from the TBRC holdings selected by E. Gene Smith, Executive Director of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Within each Core Text Collection, each work is provided in both Adobe Acrobat PDF and TIFF formats.