ArXiv.org
ArXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers in physics, computer science, mathematics, and other scientific communities. Physicist Paul Ginsparg, the creator of the arXiv, joined the Cornell faculty in the fall of 2001. He and the arXiv are credited with starting a revolution in the way physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists engage in scholarly communication.
The Bible in EnglishThe Bible in English is a searchable full-text database of twenty-one different versions of the English Bible. In addition to thirteen complete Bibles, there are five texts that comprise New Testaments only, two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale’s translation of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and New Testament.
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
CHLA is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, cropsand their protection, food science, forestry, rural sociology, and soil science.
Cornell University Archival Guides
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives have finding aids for several thousand of their archival and manuscript collections. The two units have begun to put these guides into electronic format using a standardized encoding system called Encoded Archival Description (EAD) that is coming into wide use in archives.

Cornell University Image Collections
The Cornell University Image Collections consists ofthe Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Collection, the Utopia Collection of Renaissance Art, Ancient Art and Architecture, the Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs, the Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell, the Claire Holt Indonesian Art Collection, Political Americana Collection, Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms with more being added.
Cornell University Library Tech Reports and Papers
The CUL Technical Reports is a collection of 2100 technical reports produced by students, faculty and staff of the Cornell University Computer Science Department. Spanning a period from 1995 to the present, this is a searchable collection which was sponsored originally by the Computer Science Department and is now supported by Library Systems.
CTheory Multimedia Online Magazine
CTHEORY Multimedia is a journal of Web based interactive art grouped around a common conceptual theme. The site complements CTHEORY, an existing electronic review of theory, techno-culture and society. The Cornell Library provides the staff and systems necessary to publish and maintain networked availability of the CTHEORY Multimedia site.
Database of African American Poetry
The Database of African American Poetry is a searchable full-text database that covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and, through their writings, provides a unique portrait of early America.
Digital Himalaya ProjectDigital Himalaya is a pilot project based in Cornell’s Department of Anthropology to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. Five ethnographic collections representing a broad range of regions, ethnic groups, time periods, and themes are currently being digitized, together with a set of important journals on Himalayan studies.
Distributed Digital Math MonographsThe Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs is comprised of full-text monograph collections at three institutions: Cornell University Library, The University of Michigan Library, and the State and University Library Göttingen (forthcoming).
DSpace Digital RepositoryDSpace is a digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of a University. Developed originally as a joint project of MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company, DSpace provides stable long-term storage needed to house the digital products of faculty, researchers and students.
Editions of ShakespeareEditions of Shakespeare is a searchable full-text database that covers eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition, it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and ninteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell’s Acting Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays (1774).
European Mathematical Information Service
CUL mirrors with live updates the European Mathematical Society’s EMIS (European Mathematical Information Service) site. The EMIS mirror provides outside links to several mathematics databases and stores the content of 62 math journals.
Ezra Cornell Materials
The papers of Ezra Cornell include over 30,000 scanned pages from letters, diaries, photographs, documents, and publications, and represent the Cornell University Library’s first effort to make a large manuscript collection digitally available.
Global Performing Arts ConsortiumThe Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) is a project of the Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC). GloPAD includes images, sound recordings, video clips, and 3-D models of the world’s performing arts with detailed descriptions in standardized formats to enable effective cross-cultural searching.
Goethes WerkeGoethes Werke is a searchable full-text database consists primarily of the Weimar Edition of Goethe’s works, originally published between 1887-1919 by Hermann Böhlau (and Nachfolger) under the patronage of Grosshezogin Sophie von Sachsen and hence often referred to as the Sophien-Ausgabe. It is supplemented by material not found in the Weimar Edition, namely Goethes Gespräche, edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Leipzig, 1889-1896) and all the letters discovered since the completion of the Weimar Edition: Goethes Werke, Nachträge zur Weimarer Ausgabe, edited by Paul Raabe (dtv, München, 1990).
Historic Math Book CollectionThe Cornell University Historic Math Collection consists of 512 titles. The original collection was scanned as a result of a research collaboration between Cornell University and Xerox Corporation, with the support of the Commission on Preservation and Access in the early 1990′s.
Historic Monographs Collection441 monographs that were originally scanned in the 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox are now available for online viewing. These books are part of a group of materials that included the Historical Monographs in Mathematics, Cornell Dissertations, New York State Historical Literature, and Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.
Hive and the Honeybee CollectionThe Hive and the Honeybee consists of the full text of ten books from the E. Franklin Phillips Beekeeping Collection, chosen by a team of scholars for their historical importance and usefulness to beekeepers today. The collection will grow as funding allows. The texts in this digital collection are fully searchable, and will also eventually become part of the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA).
The Home Economics ArchivesFunded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, HEARTH is a core electronic collection of home economics texts published between the early nineteenth century and mid-twentieth century. The digital library covers home economics in its broadest sense,including applied arts and design; childcare, s; clothing and textiles; food and nutrition; home management; housekeeping and etiquette and more.
Icelandic SagasThe National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University with the association of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland have collaborated on digitizing about 380,000 manuscript pages and 145,000 printed pages of Icelandic family sagas, including Germanic/Nordic mythology (the Eddas), the history of Norwegian kings, contemporary sagas and tales from the European age of chivalry.
International Women’s PeriodicalsMagazine and journal publications were an important form of communication during the mid 1800s through 1920s. Written primarily for women by both men and women, these periodicals offer a wide array of views about the roles of women in society and business. Suffrage and anti-suffrage writing, domesticity columns, and literary genres are included.
Kinematic Models for Design Digital LibraryThe Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (K-MODDL) is an open access, multimedia resource for learning and teaching about kinematics – the geometry of pure motion – and the history and theory of machines. The core of K-MODDL is a collection of late 19th-century model machine elements designed for research and teaching by German engineering professor Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905), founder of modern kinematics and a forerunner of modern design theory of machines. Since 1882, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Cornell’s College of Engineering has held 220 pieces, the most complete extant set of the Reuleaux mechanisms in the world. K-MODDL has been developed with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library (http://nsdl.org).
The Making of America CollectionThe MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. Cornell University Library and the University of Michigan libraries cooperated in the initial phase of MOA.. This site provides access to 267 monographs and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
New York State Historical Collection691 monographs and pamphlets that were originally scanned in the early 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox are now available for online viewing. These books are part of a group of materials that included the Historical Monographs in Mathematics, Cornell Dissertations, New York State Historical Literature, and Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.
The Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary is a searchable full-text database of the complete 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Past MastersThe Past Masters is a searchable full-text database of over 100 political and philosophical texts ranging from the works of ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. The collection is particularly strong in eighteenth and nineteenth century. The collection is particularly strong in eighteenth and nineteenth century English philosophy.
Patrologia LatinaPatrologia Latina is a searchable full-text database that contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
Project EuclidProject Euclid is Cornell’s principle electronic publishing initiative, whose mission is to advance affordable scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals, Project Euclid helps journals make the transition to the online environment in a way that helps them stay competitive with the large commercial journals.
Race and Religion CollectionThis site handles issues of Race and Religion within the United States. The purpose of the site is to encourage exploration and informed discussion of the topics of race and ethnicity and religion in an academic setting.
Samuel May Anti-Slavery CollectionThe Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection gathers together over 8,500 of the important pamphlet and leaflets relating to the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Sermons, position papers, off-prints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, poetry anthologies, Freedmen’s testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document in an intimate manner the social and political implications of the movement.
Study of Greek Revival Architecture
“Study of Greek Revival Architecture in the Seneca and Cayuga Lake Regions” by Clifford H. Ruffner, Jr. is a Bachelor Degree of Architecture Thesis from Cornell University dated June 1939 with critic William McL. Dunbar.
Witchcraft CollectionSelected scanned works from Cornell Library’s Witchcraft Collection which contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft.
Zentralblatt MATH DatabaseCornell University Library houses a mirror site of Zentralblatt MATH in cooperation with the European Mathematical Information Service (EMIS). The Cornell mirror established in 2000 is one of nine mirrors worldwide. Zentralblatt MATH covers the entire spectrum of mathematics including applications in computer science, mechanics, and physics.