Internet links

 

Թուային գրադարաններու կապեր կամ յղումներ՝

Armenian electronic texts

HayBook offers only a selection of the Armenian ebooks available on the internet. You will find many other references in Armenian or about Armenian language and culture on these websites :

For western Armenian :

• Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, displays ebooks in Armenian and French (Paris). You will find there also ancient maps of Armenia, drawings, photography and old records of Armenian music
• Aram is an association based in Marseille (France) dedicated to protecting Armenian memory. It has an ambitious digitization program in Westen Armenian.

• Lexilogos offers various resources on Armenian dictionaries and grammars online

For eastern Armenian :

• The Eastern Armenian National Corpus (EANC) provides linguists with a searchable annotated database of Eastern Armenian (Moscow).  EANC also provides full view for more than a hundred works in Eastern Armenian (in unicode) : EANC Electronic Library.

• A portal for all electronic resources available in Armenia (Erevan) : ARAR
• From ARAR, you will have access, for example, to the biggest Armenian library catalogue, the  Consortium of Armenian libraries’ catalogue (Erevan). You will find there all the published books in Armenian, from the origins to nowadays. A perfect tool to prepare a bibliography in Armenian

• Arak-29 is an educational foundation dedicated to promoting cultural restoration and global competitiveness. Based in Armenia (Erevan), it offers precious digital resources in various fields : linguistics, literature, language, history, church, law…
• ArmenianHouse.org is a rich electronic library featuring a collection of documents on Armenian culture and literature in Armenian and Russian (Moscow)
• Noyan Tapan Digital Library : Նոյյան Տապան էլեկտրոնային գրադարան contains ebooks in unicode.
• Literary Bridge – Գրական Կամուրջ is dedicated to contemporary literature and literary criticism (Tehran/Erevan).
• A nice digital library dedicated to Armenian literature : hayeren.hayastan
• A digital library created by Noyan Tapan (Erevan)

• Electronic archives about prominent scholars and newspapers of Armenia (and other topics) : Armenian digital library (Erevan)
• Armenian Legal Information System (ARLIS) is a database of the laws of Armenia (Erevan)

For classical Armenian :

• A great browser which offers more than a hundred ancient books (1512-1800) : Armenian Rare Books

• Internet Archive is an Internet library. It offers access to book collections that exist in digital format. It contains hundreds of ebooks related to Armenian language and history in Armenian and English.

• The Armenian section of the Goussen library collection offers more than a hundred ancient books on Armenian language and history.

• The Leiden Armenian Lexical Textbase contains classical Armenian texts and translations up to the eighth century (in unicode). Four major Armenian dictionaries have been included. (90 US$ payment required)

Armenian Libraries in the world :

You will find all the links to the major Armenian collections from Armenia and from the diaspora in the Global Armenian Library Network (= Gradaran.org), created by the Zohrab Center in New York, but you can have access here directly to two symbols of Armenian book culture :

• the National Library of Armenia, the major institution for book preservation : Հայաստանի Ազգային Գրադարան. It has also started its own ebook program, Թվային Գրադարան, and offers his newsletter online : Հոգևոր հայրենիք.

• the Matenadaran, the major institution for manuscript preservation : Մատենադարան. It offers an iconographic index, digitized manuscripts, a virtual visit of the museum, a newsletter, the manuscript catalogue and many other resources which all can be consulted only through the main page. See also the list of Matenadaran publications (1994-2006)

Newspapers of the Armenian Diaspora on the web

• Azdarar Ազդարար, the newspaper of the Armenians in India (Calcutta)
• Artsakank Արձագանգ,  the newspaper of the Armenians in Cyprus (Nicosia)
• Agos Ակօս Օրաթերթ, Hrant Dink’s newspaper (Istanbul)
• Alik Ալիք Օրաթերթ, the newspaper of the Armenians in Iran (Tehran)
• Aztag Ազդակ Օրաթերթ, the newspaper of the Armenians in Lebanon (Beyrouth)
• Armenian Weekly Հայրենիք, Armenians in the USA (Watertown, MA)
• Nouvelles d’Arménie, Armenians in France (Paris)

Ebooks in English :

• The Questia collection includes academically-oriented and scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences, including Armenian topics.
• Google Books
• You will find translations of Armenian medieval historians on the Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Imprescriptible, a selection of books in PDF on the genocide

Ebooks en français :

• Armenweb, collection of digitized history books about the genocide
• Site de Philippe Remacle sur les historiens de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Age où l’on peut trouver une collection des traductions françaises du 19e siècle des historiens arméniens.

Resources in Russian :

• You will find translations in Russian of Armenian medieval historians on this medieval digital library

Publishing houses of the Diaspora on the web

• Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna : see their Bookstore catalogue of books for sale (info@mechitharistenbibliothekwien.com) and their library catalogue :  Թուային Գրացուցակ Վիեննայի Մխիթարեան Գրադարանի

Bookstores of the Diaspora on the web

• Sardarabad Book Store (Glendale, Calif.)
• Aras Publishing house (Istanbul)
• Bookstore of the Catholicosate of Antilias for western Armenian (Lebanon)

Sites francophones :

• Diasporamag propose un agenda des événements arméniens en France et un joli lieu de rencontre numérique pour les associations arméniennes francophones. Il a également l’élégance de s’ouvrir à d’autres diasporas francophones.
• Le Collectif VAN (Vigilance Arménienne contre le Négationnisme) est un excellent site d’information sur la défense des droits de l’homme et la lutte contre le négationnisme du génocide arménien.
• Un blog littéraire de l’écrivain Denis Donikian : Ecrittératures
• Armenian Trends – Mes Arménies (Paris)

Armenian Blogs

• The Blog of an Armenian author, Ara Baliozian
• Armeniaca / Հայկականք, by Vartan Matiossian : Opinions and Reflections on Armenian Issues / Խոհեր եւ տեսակէտներ հայկական հարցերու մասին (New Jersey)
• Opinions from Lebanon : Սանահինին կարծիքով
• A literary blog from Armenia, by Վահան Իշխանյան (Erevan)
• The Armenian Observer Blog (Erevan)

Armenian History

• Ararat Center for Strategic Research, ebooks about Armenian recent history and Karabagh