| Gelvin, Professor of History, UCLA• ACO will ensure that this content will be saved digitally for future generations | |
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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 | ACO currently provides digital access to 17,213 volumes across 10,133 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries |
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.
27| Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina• Marilyn Booth, Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor of the Contemporary Arab World, Magdalen College, Oxford University• Virginia Danielson, Former Director of the NYUAD Library retired• All out-of-copyright books from NYU and partner institutions are selected for ACO | David Hirsch, Advisor to Mohammed bin Rashid Library, Dubai• However, if you believe that you are the copyright owner of any material displayed here, please see our |
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| 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 | Arabic Collections Online ACO is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content |
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.
3| What is Arabic Collections Online? Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History, New York University ex officio• Gelvin, Professor of History, UCLA• Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina• Beshara Doumani, Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University• Arabic Collections Online ACO is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content | Virginia Danielson, Former Director of the NYUAD Library retired• All out-of-copyright books from NYU and partner institutions are selected for ACO |
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| ACO will ensure that this content will be saved digitally for future generations | These institutions are contributing published books in all fields—literature, business, science, and more—from their Arabic language collections |
Roberta Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, Yale University• 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.