| What is Arabic Collections Online? those with an essential requirement to access IT facilities which they cannot do from their home or residence• Arabic Collections Online ACO is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content | Beshara Doumani, Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University• Roberta Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, Yale University• Image master files must be produced as TIFF-6, uncompressed, sRGB- or RGB-embedded, 24-bit color 3-channels of 8-bit color , 400 ppi for all items |
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| Beshara Doumani, Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University• These titles, in turn, have been collected over centuries by subject specialists at each respective institution for their academic quality and relevance to intellectual and literary inquiry | Virginia Danielson, Former Director of the NYUAD Library retired• NYU has researched copyright requirements and restrictions for each of the countries of publication and believes the materials displayed on this site are all in the public domain |
Roberta Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, Yale University• How are items selected for digitization? Image master files must be produced as TIFF-6, uncompressed, sRGB- or RGB-embedded, 24-bit color 3-channels of 8-bit color , 400 ppi for all items.
5| What are the standards used for digitization? David Hirsch, Advisor to Mohammed bin Rashid Library, Dubai• All out-of-copyright books from NYU and partner institutions are selected for ACO | Marilyn Booth, Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor of the Contemporary Arab World, Magdalen College, Oxford University• Established with support from NYU Abu Dhabi, and currently supported by major grants from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and Carnegie Corporation of New York, this mass digitization project aims to feature up to 23,000 volumes from the library collections of NYU and partner institutions |
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| David Hirsch, Advisor to Mohammed bin Rashid Library, Dubai• Important Arabic language content is not widely available on the web, and ACO aims to ensure global access to a rich Arabic library collection | These institutions are contributing published books in all fields—literature, business, science, and more—from their Arabic language collections |
What is the purpose of the project? ACO aims to digitize, preserve, and provide free open access to a wide variety of Arabic language books in subjects such as literature, philosophy, law, religion, and more.
29| Gelvin, Professor of History, UCLA• Arabic Collections Online ACO is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content | These titles, in turn, have been collected over centuries by subject specialists at each respective institution for their academic quality and relevance to intellectual and literary inquiry |
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| Many older Arabic books are out-of-print, in fragile condition, and are otherwise rare materials that are in danger of being lost | How are items selected for digitization? What are the standards used for digitization? What is the purpose of the project? However, if you believe that you are the copyright owner of any material displayed here, please see our |
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