It ran until May 2008, when the project was abandoned and the books were made freely available on the Internet Archive. The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a project under Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The objective is to integrate several national and international digital libraries in one single web-portal. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books in English and the Indian languages. Europeana links to roughly 10 million digital objects , including video, photos, paintings, audio, maps, manuscripts, printed books, and newspapers from the past 2,000 years of European history from over 1,000 archives in the European Union. Gallica from the French National Library links to about 4,000,000 digitized books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps and drawings, etc. Created in 1997, the digital library continues to expand at a rate of about 5000 new documents per month. Since the end of 2008, most of the new scanned documents are available in image and text formats. Most of these documents are written in French. Wikisource Runivers See also A9.com, Amazon.com's book search Book Rights Registry Digital library List of digital library projects Universal library National electronic library References Further reading External links About Google Books Computer-related introductions in 2004 Full-text scholarly online databases Books Books Scholarly search services