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'''Digital Library of India''', part of the online services of the [[Indian Institute of Science]], [[Bangalore]] and partner in the [[Million Book Project]], provides free access to many books in English and Indian languages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://deity.gov.in/content/national-digital-library|title=Government of India, Department of Electronics and IT webpage on National Digital library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630064820/http://deity.gov.in/content/national-digital-library|archive-date=2016-06-30|url-status=dead|access-date=2018-09-06}}</ref> The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language [[optical character recognition]] (OCR) software. The publications are mainly in [[PDF]] or [[QuickTime]] format.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ulib.org/conference/genpub/dli.pdf |title=Content development for digital library of India|first= Lakshmi|last=Pratha |work=pdf.js |year=2012 |accessdate=11 June 2016}}</ref><br />
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Because of copyright laws, the texts are all out of copyright and therefore not sources for current information, but rather useful for history and background.<br />
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{{As of|2016}}, DLI had scanned 550,603 titles.<br />
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Representative titles include:<br />
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* ''Ancient India'', McCrindle J. W.. 1885.<br />
* ''Ancient Indian Polity'', Aiyangar K. V. Rangaswami. 1935.<br />
* ''History of the Parsis Vol-I'', [[Dosabhai Framji Karaka|Karaka Dosabhai Framji]]. 1884.<br />
* ''A Treatise on Kala-Azar'', Brahmachari Upendranath. 1928.<br />
* "Aligarh kee taleemi tehreek", Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain, 1931<br />
* "Makateeb-e-Sanai" by Professor Nazir Ahmed, 1962<br />
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Books in Urdu and Persian are also available. Examples include " Aligarh kee taaleemi tehreek" by Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain<br />
and Makateeb-e-Sanai by Professor Nazir Ahmad<br />
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DLI website has not been operational for maintenance reasons from 2017. The contents are available from archive.org<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/digitallibraryindia|title=Public library of India|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Traditional Knowledge Digital Library]]<br />
* [[Panjab Digital Library]]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100603133507/http://dli.iiit.ac.in/partners.html Partners in Digital Library of India]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160229163832/http://www.dli.gov.in/ Digital Library of India, Govt. of India website]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170909022047/http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/ Digital Library of India, Bangalore]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170602025554/http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/ New website of Digital Library of India with downloadable PDFs]<br />
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