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==Digital Library of India==
===Currently closedCurrent website==='''Update: At 28 September 2017After being unavailable for an extended period of time, (said to be for copyright reasons} the Digital Library of India has been unavailable since approximately mid May due to maintenance and other issues. The last message on the website advised the website is closed to remove books still available again,although in copyright'''a much reduced format.
The new website is http://www.dli.ernet.in The digital files have the format http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/6427. (The previous format was <nowiki>http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/6427</nowiki>). There are no book files available with publication date after 1900. It is now necessary to register to download a book file. '''The following information is retained for historical purposes and in the event that the website becomes available again'''.
Digital Library of India has many interesting books which are unavailable online elsewhere.
===Last Previous website===
A new website was introduced in the latter part of 2015, where all the digital book files are Adobe pdfs. It appears most of the books available using the TIFF format available on the old website are also now available as pdfs, but not all (at May 2017). Any new additions to the DLI are only available as pdfs. Please be aware the cataloguing may be erratic. The title may have spelling errors, or part of the title may be omitted. The author, or the date of publication may be omitted.
<br>'''Update: September 2017'''. Further DLI books appear to have been delated from Archive.org, and the collection has been renamed the "Public Library of India" Collection.
===Old Oldest website===
The book page images are in the TIFF format. If you can't read the pages you will need to download a plug-in to read the TIFF format ([http://www.alternatiff.com/install-ie Alternatiff] for Windows users and [http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html Plugger] for Linux users) whose details you will also find within the website. Books available include volumes of the ''Calcutta Review'' published later than those available on Google Books, books in the Indian Records Series, Yearbooks etc
