The SALIS Collection is a growing multidisciplinary digital library of books focusing on the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs and related fields. This collection is being built in partnership with the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more located in California. The SALIS Collection Digitization Project, referred to as the Digs Project, is coordinated by the SALIS Advocacy Committee. The primary goal of The SALIS Collection is to provide a digital copy of every book on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs stored in a single location for everyone around the world to access. This will both preserve the literature and support the information needs of researchers, clinicians, students, and the general public. The Collection holds books from North America, Europe, the UK and Australia, in English and other languages.

Access The SALIS Collection.
Since 2013, over 5,800 titles vital to the field of addiction and substance use have been added. Hundreds more are in the pipeline, awaiting digitization by the Internet Archive; more are added every month. Once the item is digitized, anyone can register to borrow a digital copy of a book and read it online. The borrowing period is one hour but up to two weeks if there is a second copy.
Already a popular resource, here are some testimonials.
A Sample of Popular Titles
Recent Additions
1200 monographs from the ADAI (Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute) Library, University of Washington, Seattle, which closed in 2019. ADAI is now Addictions, Drug and Alcohol Institute and offers an Information Service.
Core US Government Series:
TIP and TAP Series, NIDA and NIAAA Research Monographs, Reports of the Surgeon General.
From Europe:
EMCDDA Reports (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs & Drug Addiction)
Coming Soon
The Drug Policy Alliance Library, New York.
For the full story of this project read The SALIS Collection unveiled: Building an ATOD digital archive. in The SALIS Journal, Proceedings of the 37th annual SALIS conference, Vol 2, 2015, pages 100-104.
Searching The SALIS Collection
For help with search strategies to find what you need, refer to this guide.
You can help build the SALIS Collection!
SALIS members and Friends of SALIS are contributing books to be scanned into The SALIS Collection within the Internet Archive, as well as donating funds to support this effort. We’re selecting books of significance to the field from any relevant discipline — medicine, psychology, history, sociology — and more.
Support the SALIS Collection. Our 2021 Giving Tuesday Annual Fundraiser that ran for several weeks raised $6,335. It’s never too late to donate through Support SALIS! Just $35 covers digitizing one book!
For more information about supporting this project please contact:
Andrea Mitchell, SALIS Executive Director
E-mail: amitchell@salis.org
Tel: 510-865-6225