You can view the Isaac Newton archive online at the Cambridge Digital Library.
The library has launched an ambitious project in order to transform into a digital library.
The Internet Archive has a competing project, which aims to offer a free digital library.
They will use the money to build a new student centre, a digital library and a sports complex.
With projects like the Digital Library, the cultural and societal potential of digital technologies come into their own.
The spirit of equality and open understanding comes into full view with the creation of this World Digital Library.
The idea was to develop a universal digital library that anybody could access.
"UNESCO welcomes the creation of the World Digital Library which reflects the values and priorities of our Organization, " Mr Matsuura declared.
For one B-school professor, though, this sprawling digital library is all business.
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He noted that their participation would contribute to a truly universal digital library that showcases the cultural heritage and achievements of all countries.
At that time the web was often described as an enormous digital library that you could visit or contribute to by building a homepage.
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In an interview Thursday, Cohen said most, but not all of the archives in the digital library are older works in the public domain.
The latter consists of an introductory course to Greenstone where participants will be requested to design an implementation plan to create a digital library.
Google's plans to establish a digital library have hit several buffers.
Directors of the digital library, first conceived in 2010, include officials from Harvard University and the University of Michigan and a former executive at Google Inc.
"The World Digital Library project offers a brand-new platform for showcasing the diversity of the world's civilizations, " said Dr Furui Zhan, Chief Librarian of the NLC.
The Newton archive is part of Cambridge's Digital Library project that will eventually showcase other important scientific papers, including the works of Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin and Ernest Rutherford.
New e-reading services, which allow readers to purchase and store books in a digital library and read them on different devices, have some of the most sophisticated reader tracking software.
The National Library of China is ready to work in close cooperation with the World Digital Library, continuing to promote in concert the prosperity and progress of all human civilizations.
In her new role at OUYA, Santiago will be "working with many developers globally and in different capacities, " she said, as well as managing the digital library that users at home see.
The main area where they have acted jointly is in setting up the California Digital Library, which drives hard bargains with the publishers of periodicals to license the use of their electronic versions.
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) libraries are one the first Libraries in the Middle East that integrated the new technologies to create its own digital library for its student community.
The new Kobo Wireless eReader allows consumers to browse more than 1.5 million books in the Borders eBook store and update their digital library wirelessly, directly from the eReader device, a smartphone or the Borders Desktop Application.
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With a durable and sleek design, the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 is a terrific portable storage solution for gamers, enthusiasts, early adopters and high-end consumers who require the best performance and highest capacities to carry their digital library.
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Mr Billington first proposed the creation of a World Digital Library (WDL) to UNESCO in 2005, remarking that such a project could "have the salutary effect of bringing people together by celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures in a single global undertaking".
In the US, another cultural digital experiment launches today, with the arrival of the Digital Public Library of America.
The Digital Public Library of America began beta testing Thursday, promising a site with millions of materials ranging from images of George Washington to footage of Freedom Riders during the civil rights era.
The new Digital Public Library of America (or DPLA) will be kicking off its first big pilot project at the Boston Public Library next month, and it's now gotten a big shot in the arm courtesy of the US National Archives.
"Starting with over 2 million items, each with its own special story and significance, the Digital Public Library of America will now begin to assemble the riches of our country's libraries, archives, and museums, and connect them with the public, " executive director Dan Cohen wrote on the library's website Thursday.
The service potentially makes it much easier for people to build up a library of digital music.
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