The Dictionary of Irish Biography includes the lives of 9,000 Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland from James Ussher to James Joyce, St Patrick to Patrick Pearse, St Brigit to Maud Gonne MacBride, Shane O'Neil to Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands. It is a collaboration of Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy.
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Digital Dictionary of Buddhism is a collaborative Internet site developed by user contributions and maintained by a professor of the University of Tokyo.
Digital Scholarship is a web portal to information on open access publishing since 1989.
The www.dissonline.de information system provides a wide range of information on the electronic publishing of dissertations and post-doctoral theses.
This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries.
LibDex is a website which serves as a directory of libraries of all types (though it appears not to be comprehensive in its coverage) in dozens of countries around the world.
A comprehensive resource for Library and Information Science research, this EBSCO database provides full text articles from more than 430 LIS journals, indexing for hundreds more and selected full text monographs.
The Library of Congress's home page, linking to an extraordinary wealth of information including the Library's catalogs and its very significant digital collections.
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain (no longer subject to copyright restrictions).
The Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth science literature available. Bringing together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single electronic platform, the Lyell Collection is a unique resource for researcher and student alike.