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If you have any problems please email [mailto:jgdc99@gmail.com John Carpenter]
'''[https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us Internet Archive Help Center]''' (Archive.org page). For texts, click on the section Archive.org
: The "default" borrowing time period is one hour. Additionally, some books are also available for a 14 day period. The latter option may be displayed, or for some books, there is a downward arrow icon on the "Borrow for 1 hour" heading, which can be clicked on to show a 14 day borrowing option, which can be selected if required. For books which can only be borrowed for 1 hour, the book may be re-borrowed at the expiry of that time.
*Archive BitTorrents. Some books are available to read using this format. See Files, Formats and Derivatives/Archive BitTorrents
Video presentation [https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/rtc2021/session/navigating-the-internet-archive Navigating the Internet Archive] by Alexis Rossi from 2021 RootsTech, FamilySearch. Direct [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCcRM0Z72GA YouTube video].
<br> Includes a section on Books
==HathiTrust Digital Library==
*[https://www.hathitrust.org Website]
*Watch a YouTube video for details of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_eh-ZBJKg the new book reader introduced July 2021].
The website has in the past advised :
==Digitised Books from GIPE, Pune==
*[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/17705 Website]
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune ([[Poona]]). Pdfs to download.
The website contains a number of Gazetteers which may be located by using Gazetteer as the search term. Other books available to download include ''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926. Volumes [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23767 1], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23769 2], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23770 3], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23771 4], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23772 5]
==National Library of India Digital Collection==
==Digital Library of India, now closed==
The Digital Library of India appears to have has been closed downas a separate entity, although texts labelled "Digital Library of India" are available through the National Digital Library of India, see next section.
In January 2017 many (but not all) of the book files, from the then Digital Library of India were uploaded to the Internet Archive (Archive.org). An example of the URL for an Internet Archive book file is https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97227
Noted in October 2020, files are currently being were uploaded to the Archive.org which are were files from the previous Digital Library of India. An example of the URL for an Archive.org book file uploaded at that time is https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.238435
===DLI history===
*[https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in Website]
A portal sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, with the aim of providing a single window search facility. It is not immediately clear which other digital libraries have contributed content, but include West Bengal Public includes content from the previous Digital Library Networkof India, and also Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and South Asia Archive, the . The latter usually is a subscription website, so its status here (with a red lock icon) and access to it through NDLI is unclear limited to "all the UGC colleges in India". It is understood that For non Indian residents the viewing of content is will generally need to be via the website of the contributing institutions, as it appears to register with NDLI, you need to be an Indian resident at an educational institution. All database sources with a red lock icon require registration. However you can access content from the previous Digital Library of India, (which shows a green lock icon) although it may be slow and the Internet Archive (Archive.org) may be preferable for those DLI files also uploaded to Archive.org.
==DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library==
Some of the digital files from West Bengal State Central Library are now available at the Internet Archive (archive.org), refer above, as part of the [https://archive.org/details/digitallibraryindia Public Library of India Collection].
==Digital Library of the West Bengal Secretariat==
*[http://wbsl.gov.in/homePage.action Website]
The website advises "The West Bengal Secretariat Library at Writers' Building, Kolkata, is one of the oldest and largest library under Government of West Bengal". [http://wbsl.gov.in/aboutUs.action About Us] sets out the main holdings of the Library.
==Panjab Digital Library==
==FamilySearch Digital Library==
Previously known as Family History Books from FamilySearch
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/ Website]. To access the books.*[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/digital-library FamilySearch Digital Library] Includes Helpful Resources. From [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library]/Family History Library Collection. Contact email is <nowiki>DigitalLibrary@familysearch.org</nowiki>
*[https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/family-history-books/ "Is Your Family in the Updated Digital Library?"] FamilySearch blog 5 April 2019. Details some of the functions available.
*FamilySearch Help articles
Some books which which are digitised FamilySearch microfilms which were filmed in institutions such as the British Library, even if the books would otherwise not be subject to copyright restrictions, can only be viewed at [[FamilySearch Centres]], or perhaps also at FamilySearch Affiliate libraries.
An example of a "Public access" book available is the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1931667 ''Indian Army List'' April 1921] which may be read online, or downloaded. This is the link through the Main Catalogue. URL though the Digital Library is https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/286965-indian-army-list-april-1921 and if you want to save the link to a particular page, say digital page 161, the format for that page is https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/286965/161, see the Share icon on the far right hand side of the book reader.
==Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek==
'''Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English''' from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
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