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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e-Médiathèque: a new online plateform of e-books and archives on Arabic and Islamic studies.

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 16, 2012|Africa, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

e-Médiathèque is a multilingual (Arabic, Berber, French,…) digital library that gives open access to scientific and documentary collections (archives, images, manuscripts and prints) in humanities and social sciences of the Mediterranean region. Those collections are tied to the research activities of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH) in Aix-en-Provence (France) in the fields of law, linguistics, ethnology, political and religious history, architecture, oral traditions, religion, etc. These studies

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