Arabic Collections Online

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 27, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

New York University Libraries has announced the creation of Arabic Collections Online (ACO), a major project to create a publicly available, digital library of public-domain Arabic language content drawn from rich Arabic collections of prominent libraries such as the American University of Beirut, Columbia University, Cornell University,New York University and Princeton University. So far more than 200 tiltes are available full-text. This mass digitization project aims to expose up to

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Try out the BRILL Classic Arabic Texts Online (Part 1)

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 17, 2014|History, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

For one month (till 12th December 2014) SOAS Students and staff can try out the Classic Arabic Texts Online (CATO) published by Brill. CATO  offers approx. 19,000 pages of classic Brill editions of Arabic texts in a full-text searchable format and accessible from one single point of entry. The following titles are included in CATO-1: •  Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (with indices and glossaries) edited by M.J. de Goeje and J.H. Kramers [Ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamadhānī’s

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