European Library
The European Library is an Internet service that allows access to the resources of 49 European national libraries and an increasing number of research libraries. Searching is free and delivers metadata records as well as digital objects, mostly free of charge. The objects come from institutions located in countries which are members of the Council of Europe and range from catalogue records to full-text books, magazines, journals and audio recordings. Over 200 million records are searchable, including 24 million pages of full-text content and more than 7 million digital objects. Thirty five different languages are represented among the searchable objects.
Type of site | Portal to the content of Europe's national and research libraries |
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| Headquarters | Dutch Royal Library, Netherlands" |
| Owner | CENL (a consortium of 49 national libraries) |
| URL | The European Library at Europeana |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 17 March 2005 |
The content of the European Library was frozen on 31 December 2016, with no new updates after that date.