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National Electronic Library
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<p>The National Electronic Library (NEL) is a website funded by the <a href="/facts/Ministry_of_Culture_(Russia)/1ftgrnQY">Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation</a>, which provides Internet users with access to digitized books, newspapers and magazines in Russian libraries, museums and archives. It is operated by <a href="/facts/Russian_State_Library/QoDmpLWB">Russian State Library</a> located in <a href="/facts/Moscow/XUU6VkdY">Moscow</a>. In November, 2024 the Library reported as having 5,752,597 electronic documents in its collection, of those 94.0 % were available under <a href="/facts/Open_Access/r7rLYN6C">Open Access</a> terms. The library continues growing its historic collection by scanning additional materials, converting them into text using <a href="/facts/Optical_character_recognition/kdTyxa1l">optical character recognition</a>, and storing in its digital database, capable of full-text search. The site has a mobile application for iOS and Android. </p>