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Also ''electronic libraries, online libraries''.

==Arts, humanities and social sciences==
===Libraries===
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Marxists Internet Archive.png|Marxists Internet Archive
Les Classiques des sciences sociales.png|Les Classiques des sciences sociales
Social Science Research Network.png|Social Science Research Network
Electronic Poetry Center.png|Electronic Poetry Center
UbuWeb.png|UbuWeb
Textzcom.png|Textz.com
Aaaaarg.png|Aaaaarg
Monoskop.png|Monoskop
The Anarchist Library.png|The Anarchist Library
Memory of the World.png|Memory of the World
Library Stack.png|Library Stack
Uberty.png|Uberty
</gallery>

* [[Marxists Internet Archive]], est. 1990 by Zodiac, online since 1993; hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers. [https://www.marxists.org/ URL]. [http://www.facebook.com/groups/5636348598/ Facebook].
* [http://classiques.uqac.ca/ Les Classiques des sciences sociales], est. 1993 by Jean-Marie Tremblay. Hosts Francophone works in social and human sciences; 6000 publications from 2000 authors. Maintained by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC). [http://classiques.uqac.ca URL].
* [http://www.ssrn.com/en/ Social Science Research Network] (SSRN), est. 1994 by Michael Jensen and Wayne Marr. The core of the collection are preprint versions of academic papers in PDF submitted by authors. Now run by Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. (SSEP). [http://www.ssrn.com/en/ URL].
* [http://epc.buffalo.edu Electronic Poetry Center], est. 1994 by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein at SUNY Buffalo. Hosts poetry books and periodicals; also lists contents from [http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse] & [http://jacket2.org/reissues Jacket 2 Reissues]. [http://epc.buffalo.edu URL].
* [[UbuWeb]], est. 1996 by [[Kenneth Goldsmith]] as a resource for visual, concrete and sound poetry, soon expanded to include historical materials related more broadly to the avant-garde arts. [http://ubu.com URL]. [https://twitter.com/ubuweb Twitter].
* [[Textz.com]], est. 2001 by [[Sebastian Lütgert]]/ROLUX; hosted theory and fiction in plain text. [http://web.archive.org/web/20060411064533/http://www.textz.com/ URL] (archived version).
* [[Aaaaarg]], est. c2004 by [[Sean Dockray]] in the framework of the [http://thepublicschool.org/ Public School], originally focused on critical theory, later expanded to include art and humanities as such. [http://aaaaarg.fail/ URL]. [https://twitter.com/aaaarg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/aaaarg.org/ Facebook].
* [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]], est. August 2004 by [[Dušan Barok]] as a research initiative for documentation of media art, later expanded to the arts, media and humanities. [[Monoskop Log]] has branched out in 2009. [https://monoskop.org URL]. [https://twitter.com/monoskop Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/monoskoplog/ Facebook].
* [http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ The Anarchist Library], est. c2008, an archive focusing on anarchism. The site provides an online service, [http://theanarchistlibrary.org/bookbuilder Bookbuilder], to create collections of texts, with editing features, changing layout and rendering to PDFs or EPUBs. [http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ URL].
* [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org Memory of the World] library, started 2012 by [[Marcell Mars]] and [[Tomislav Medak]] as a proof of concept of the [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/cat/public-library/ Public Library] initiative. [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org URL]. [https://www.facebook.com/memoryoftheworld.org/ Facebook].
* [http://uberty.org/ Uberty], est. 2015 as a resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy. [http://uberty.org/ URL]. [https://twitter.com/ubertyorg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/uberty.org/ Facebook].
* [[Library Stack]], est. 2015 by Erik Wysocan and Benjamin Tiven. Database initiative for digital objects and publications. [https://librarystack.org URL]. [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LibraryStack?src=hash Twitter]. 

; See also
* [[Magazines#Collections_online|Digital libraries hosting avant-garde periodicals]], listed in our Magazines section
* [[Classics#Literature|Digital libraries for the Classics]]
* [http://modernsource.daphnet.org/ Modern Philosophy Source]
* [http://www.prdl.org/authors.php Post-Reformation Digital Library]
* "More resources" section on [http://monoskop.org/log/ Monoskop Log] 
* [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/cat/catalog/ Initiatives featured on the Memory of the World website]

===Conferences, workshops, exhibitions===
* [[The Oil of the 21st Century|The Oil of the 21st Century: Perspectives on Intellectual Property]], conference and event series, Berlin & Umea & Mumbai, 18 Oct-22 Dec 2007. 
* [http://studio.camp/event.php?id=117 Properties of the Autonomous Archive], Max Mueller Bhavan Library, Mumbai, 7-8 Jan 2011. [http://pad.ma/AJQ/info Video].
* [http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/program/program-friday-october-14-2011/ Libraries, Access to Knowledge, and Self-Learning: From the Library of Alexandria to aaaaarg.org] panel at MobilityShifts summit, New York, Oct 2011. [http://vimeo.com/32869340]
* [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/timeline-of-public-library/ Public Library] events, since Dec 2011.
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130328001153/http://2012.haip.cc/ HAIP 2012: Public Library / Javna knjižnica] conference and exhibition, [[Kiberpipa]], Ljubljana, 28-30 Nov 2012. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLeh2lmJO7FLCYqu1M1RBSkhgE4UZCppiv&v=eUEv6aDkRIg Video].
* [http://www.kuda.org/en/series-discussions-archivelive-archiveunarchive-and-public-library-workshop An Archive/Live Archive/UnArchive and Public Library] workshop, [[kuda]] and CK13 Youth Center, Novi Sad, 15-16 Jul 2013. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jQ4jgA5l-k Video].
* [http://calafou.org/es/content/hack-biblio-construir-bibliotecas-publicas Hack the biblio! Construir bibliotecas publicas], [[Calafou]], Barcelona, 17-21 Apr 2014. 
* [http://networkcultures.org/digitalpublishing/events/22-23-may-2014/program/ Underground E-publishing] session within ''Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts'' conference, [[WORM]], Rotterdam, 23 May 2014. [http://web.archive.org/web/20140606142804/http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/#s5] Video: [http://vimeo.com/97508732] [http://vimeo.com/97508731] [http://vimeo.com/97508729] [http://vimeo.com/97508728].
* [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/ Public Library: Rethinking the Infrastructures of Knowledge Production] conference and exhibition, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) & Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 30 Oct-23 Nov 2014. [http://www.pykatestseiten.de/ Video].
* [http://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/ Javna knjižnica / Public Library] conference and exhibition, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, May-Jun 2015. [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/05/28/exhibition-conference-workshop-zagreb/] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/izlozba-javna-knjiznica.html] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/javna-knjiznica.html]
* [[Ideographies of Knowledge]] symposium, Mundaneum, Mons, 3 Oct 2015. [[Ideographies of Knowledge|Video]].
* [http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/events/custodiansonline-the-struggle-over-the-future-of-pirate-libraries-and-universal-access-to-knowledge~no3779/ Custodians.online – The Struggle over the Future of ›Pirate‹ Libraries and Universal Access to Knowledge] discussion, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 19 Feb 2016. [https://www.facebook.com/events/581500202013672/]
* [http://radical.piratical.cryptonomic.net Radical Piratical] symposium, University of Malmö, 2-3 May 2016.
* [http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/events/dissent.html Knowledge Architectures] talks and workshops, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2-6 Jul 2016.
* [http://kuda.org/sr/pravo-na-stanovanje-pravo-na-obrazovanje-javne-borbe-i-javna-knji-nica-04-12052017-omladinski-centar Pravo na stanovanje, pravo na obrazovanje – javne borbe i javna knjižnica], Omladinski centar CK13 & Galerija SULUV, Novi Sad, 4-12 May 2017. [http://kuda.org/sites/default/files/docs/%2B%20Public%20Library%20-%20SULUV%20-katalog.pdf Catalogue].
* [https://www.conftool.pro/gfm2017/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=136&presentations=show "Caring for the Open: Custodianship, Accessibility"] panel discussion at ''GfM-Jahrestagung 2017: Zugänge'', FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 5 Oct 2017.
* [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/?cat=5 Creating Commons] workshop, HEK, Basel, 19-22 Oct 2017.

===Interventions and research===
* [http://fillip.ca/content/browsing-the-aaaarg-library AAAARG Library], a site-specific installation, in conjunction with the the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, Fall 2010.
* [http://www.andpublishing.org/projects/and-the-piracy-project/ The Piracy Project] by [[AND Publishing]] and [[Andrea Francke]], 2011-14. [http://www.andreafrancke.me.uk/index.php?/works/the-piracy-project/] [http://vimeo.com/99323130]
* [http://artwarez.org/projects/GWYDH/ Giving What You Don't Have], an artistic research project by [[Cornelia Sollfrank]], since 2012.

===Scanning===
* [http://www.diybookscanner.org DIY Book Scanner], a community of people who build their own book scanners. 
* [http://linearbookscanner.org Linear Book Scanner], a low-cost open-source page-turning book scanner. Initiated by [[Dany Qumsiyeh]].
* Tomislav Medak, Dubravka Sekulic, with An Mertens, ''[[Media:Book_Scanning_and_Post-Processing_Manual_Based_on_Public_Library_Overhead_Scanner_v1.2.pdf|Book Scanning & Post-Processing Manual Based on Public Library Overhead Scanner]]'', Zagreb: Public Library & Multimedia Institute, [Dec 2014], 22 pp.

==General interest==
===Libraries===
====Public domain, Creative Commons and Open Access texts====
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg], est. 1971 by Michael Hart, has over 46k books in plain text, subsequently also converted to other formats. Hosted by ibiblio at U North Carolina, Chapel Hill. {{multi}}
* [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman Perseus Digital Library], est. c1987 by [[Gregory R. Crane]], covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. The collection contains editions and modern English translations of hundreds of ancient [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman Greek, Roman], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Arabic Arabic], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Germanic Germanic] and [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ other texts]. Maintained by the Department of the Classics, Tufts U. 
* [http://arxiv.org/ arXiv], est. 1991 by Paul Ginsparg. Has over 1M e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics in PDF and other formats (TeX, DVI, PostScript or HTML). Maintained by Cornell U. {{en}}
* [http://runeberg.org/katalog.html Project Runeberg], est. 1992 by Lars Aronsson. Contains works significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries; as images and HTML text. Hosted by Lysator, an academic computer group at Linköping University. {{multi}}
* [http://www.liberliber.it/ Liber Liber], est. 1994 by Marco Calvo, Gino Roncaglia, Paolo Barberi, Fabio Ciotti and Marco Zela. {{it}}
* [http://archive.org/details/texts Internet Archive], est. 1996 by Brewster Kahle. The section 'eBooks and Texts' contains almost 8M scanned texts as high-resolution images, subsequently also converted to other formats. {{multi}}
* [http://wikisource.org Wikisource], a Wikimedia project started 2003. Contains around 500k texts in wiki form. {{multi}}
* [http://www.hathitrust.org HathiTrust], est. 2008. A partnership of 100+ research institutions and libraries. Also includes content digitised by Internet Archive digitisation initiatives and Google Books. Access to copyrighted works requires an institutional subscription. {{multi}}

====Autonomous/independent libraries====
* [http://lib.ru Lib.Ru], RuNet's early web library, est. 1994 by Maksim Moshkov.
* [http://publ.lib.ru Publichnaya biblioteka], est. 1998 by Vadim Ershov.
* [[Library.nu]], formerly Ebooksclub (2004-2007) and Gigapedia (2007-2010), closed down in Feb 2012.
* [[Library Genesis]] (LibGen), est. March 2008, has multiple interfaces, mirrors and versions [http://golibgen.io/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
* [http://sci-hub.tw Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan].
* [[Bibliotik]], a torrent site for e-books.
* [http://openlibrary.org Open Library], an e-book lending library, operated by the Internet Archive.

; See also
* [http://filesharingtalk.com/what-trackers-offer/e-Learning Listings on Filesharingtalk.com]

====National libraries====
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* Belgium, [http://belgica.kbr.be/ Belgica]
* Brazil, [http://bndigital.bn.br/ BNDigital]
* Chile, [http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.cl BND]
* Croatia, [http://www.nsk.hr NSK]
* Czech Republic, [http://www.ndk.cz NDK] national library, [http://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/search/ CAS] academy of sciences, [http://dlib.lib.cas.cz DLIB CAS] academic journals, [http://archiv.ucl.cas.cz UCL CAS] literary periodicals
* Denmark, [http://www.kb.dk/editions/any/2009/jul/editions/da/ KB] national library, [http://www.deff.dk/ DEFF] electronic research library
* Finland, [http://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/ DIGI], [http://www.kdk.fi/ KDK]
* France, [http://gallica.fr Gallica] BnF national library, [http://persee.fr Persée] humanities journals
* Germany, [http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de DDB], [http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de Digi20]
* Hungary, [http://mek.oszk.hu MEK], [http://hungaricana.hu/en/databases/ Hungaricana]
* Iceland, [http://timarit.is/ Timarit] periodicals
* Italy, [http://www.imss.fi.it/biblio/ebgaloleana.html IMSS] history of science, [http://www.liberliber.it/online/servizi/link-utili/biblioteche-digitali/ more]
* Japan, [http://dl.ndl.go.jp/ NDLDC]
* Macedonia, [http://dlib.mk DLIB.mk]
* Netherlands, [http://www.kb.nl KB], [http://www.dbnl.org DBNL]
* Norway, [http://nb.no NB]
* Poland, [http://polona.pl Polona] national library, [http://fbc.pionier.net.pl FBC] digital libraries federation
* Portugal, [http://purl.pt BND]
* Qatar, [http://www.qdl.qa QDL]
* Romania, [http://digibuc.ro DigiBuc], [http://digitool.dc.bmms.ro:8881/ (old version)]
* Russia, [http://search.rsl.ru/ RSL] state library, [http://leb.nlr.ru NLR] national library, [http://shpl.dlibrary.org GLIB] state historical library, [http://feb-web.ru FEB] literature and folklore
* Serbia, [http://www.digitalna.nb.rs/ DNBS] national library, [http://scindeks.ceon.rs SCIndeks] journals
* Slovakia, [http://dikda.eu/ Dikda]
* Slovenia, [http://dlib.si dLib.si]
* Spain, [http://bdh.bne.es BNE] 
* Sweden, [http://www.kb.se/samlingarna/digitala/ KB] national library, [http://sok.riksarkivet.se/svar-digitala-forskarsalen SVAR] national archives
* Ukraine, [http://lib.iitta.gov.ua NAES], [http://diasporiana.org.ua/ Diasporiana]
* United Kingdom, [http://www.bl.uk BL]
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====Commercial libraries hosting academic journals====
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* [http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/current John Benjamins], 70 journals.
* [http://jstor.org JStor], est. 1995 by William G. Bowen (Princeton U); now owned by ITHAKA; 1900 journals.
* [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/ MIT Press Journals], 32 journals.
* [http://search.proquest.com Proquest Central].
* [http://muse.jhu.edu Project Muse], est. 1995, operated by Johns Hopkins University Press; focus on digital humanities and social science; 630 journals.
* [http://online.sagepub.com SAGE Journals], 750 journals.
* [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals ScienceDirect], operated by Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2500 journals.
* [http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=Journal Springer Link], 2900 journals.
* [http://www.tandfonline.com/ Taylor & Francis Online]
* [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/browse/publications?type=journal Wiley Online Library], 1500 journals.
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; See also
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Commercial_digital_libraries Wikipedia list of commercial digital libraries]

====See also====
* [http://www.prdl.org/digital_libraries.php List of digital libraries on PRDL]
* [[Monoskop:Abbreviations#Digital_libraries_and_archives|Digital libraries featured in Monoskop bibliographies]]

==Literature==
===Essays, talks, statements, interviews===
* A.S.Ambulanzen, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040322235755/http://textz.com:80/concept/ "napster was only the beginning"], ''textz.com'', Mar 2001. {{en}}
* Aaron Swartz, [http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto"], Jul 2008. {{en}}
** [https://openaccessmanifesto.wordpress.com/guerilla-open-access-manifesto/ translations]
* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/10693558 "The Scan and the Export"], ''Fillip'' 12: "Critical Forms of Publicness", Fall 2010, pp 98-110. [http://fillip.ca/content/the-scan-and-the-export] A short meditation on book scanning and document exporting. Discusses machines, the people who use them, and the contrasting forms of publicity and collectivity emerging from these technical configurations.  {{en}}
* Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/ubuweb-at-15-years-an-overview/ "UbuWeb at 15 Years: An Overview"], ''Poetry Foundation'', 26 Apr 2011. {{en}}
* Matthew Fuller, [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/paradise-too-many-books-interview-sean-dockray "In the Paradise of Too Many Books: An Interview with Sean Dockray"], ''Mute'', London, 4 May 2011.  {{en}}
* Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://ubu.com/resources/paradise.html "Paradise Now: UbuWeb's World Without Copyright"], 17 Mar 2012. Keynote speech given at Matadero Madrid. {{en}}, {{es}}
* Lawrence Liang, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/37/61228/shadow-libraries/ "Shadow Libraries"], ''e-flux'' 37 (Sep 2012). On the library as heterotopia. {{en}}
* Alessandro Ludovico, [[Media:Marcell_Mars_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|"Marcell Mars, Interview"]], ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, Jan 2013, pp 6-8. {{en}}
* Alessandro Ludovico, [[Media:Dusan_Barok_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|"Dušan Barok, Interview"]], ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, Jan 2013, pp 10-11. {{en}}
* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/10386709 "Openings and Closings"], in ''Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments in Education'', eds. Tim Ivison and Tom Vandeputte, Bedford Press, 2013. On open access and education. {{en}}
* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/11966098 "Interface, Access, Loss"], ''Discipline'' magazine lecture, 2013. Revised version of a chapter in ''Undoing Property'', eds. Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak, Sternberg Press, 2013. A critique of the cloud. {{en}}
* Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://artwarez.org/projects/GWYDH/ ''Giving What You Don't Have''], video interviews with Femke Snelting, Marcell Mars, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eva Weinmayr & Andrea Francke, Sean Dockray, Dmytri Kleiner, 2013. Includes transcripts. {{en}}
* Dušan Barok, [[Media:Barok_2014_Techniques_of_Publishing.pdf|"Techniques of Publishing"]], ''Information Between Commodity and Community'' seminar, Prague, May 2014. On the reciprocity between electronic publishing and scholarly research today. {{en}}
* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/Communing_Texts|"Communing Texts"]], ''Off the Press'' conference, WORM, Rotterdam, May 2014. On the relevance of plain text in publishing; a proposal for discursive entanglement of scholarly references and hyperlinks. {{en}}
* Marcell Mars, Manar Zarroug, Tomislav Medak, [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/27/public-library-an-essay/ "Public Library (An Essay)"], ''Memory of the World'' blog, 27 Oct 2014; [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=76 printed in] ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 75-85. On the idea of public library. {{en}}
** [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=8 "Javna knjižnica (Esej)"], trans. Una Bauer, in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 7-17. {{cr}}
* Marcell Mars, [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/why-and-how-to-become-an-amateur-librarian/ "Why and How to Be(come) an Amateur Librarian"], ''Memory of the World'' blog, 28 Oct 2014. {{en}}
* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/Poetics_of_Research|"Poetics of Research"]], ''Public Library'' conference, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Nov 2014. On the cultural algorithms historically conditioned by scholarly research and publishing. {{en}}
* Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti's interviews with [[Media:Barok_Giorgetta_Nicoletti_2015_Monoskop_Interview_EN_IT.pdf|Dušan Barok]], [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2015/04/17/conversation-on-digital-archiving-practices/ Geert Lovink], [http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/a-conversation-on-digital-archiving-practices/ Janneke Adema], [http://misterwarwick.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/conversation-on-digital-archiving-practice-june-2015/ Henry Warwick], 2015. {{en}}
* McKenzie Wark, [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=112 "Metadata Punk"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 111-117. {{en}}
** [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/hr/metapodatkovni-punk/ "Metapodatkovni punk"], trans. Dušanka Profeta, in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 41-47. [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=42] {{cr}}
* Tomislav Medak, [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=122 "The Future After the Library. UbuWeb and Monoskop's Radical Gestures"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 121-137. {{en}}
** [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/hr/buducnosti-iz-knjiznice/ "Budućnosti iz knjižnice. Radikalne geste UbuWeba i Monoskopa"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 51-66. [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=52] {{cr}}
* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/More_Than_Numbers_Less_Than_Words|"More Than Numbers, Less Than Words"]], ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'' conference, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Jun 2015. {{en}}
* Sean Dockray, Lawrence Liang, [http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/sharing-instinct/ "Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries"], ''e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale'', 14 Aug 2015. Response: [http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/superconversations-day-73-mohammad-salemy-responds-to-sean-dockray-lawrence-liang-sharing-instinct-an-annotation-of-the-social-contract-through-shadow-libraries/2244/2 Mohammad Salemy]. {{en}}
* [http://custodians.online/ "In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub"], 30 Nov 2015. Open letter. {{en}} 
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=15700 translations].
* Tomislav Medak, [http://www.balcancancontemporary.net/article.php?id=507 "All Forms of Shadow Knowledge Exist in the Fault Lines of Officially Sanctioned Knowledge. An Interview"], ''Balcan Contemporary'', 18 Dec 2015. {{en}}
* Tomislav Medak, [http://schloss-post.com/death-survival-dead-labor/ "Death and Survival of Dead Labor"], ''Schloss Post'' 2: "Authorship", Stuttgart: Akademie Schloss Solitude, 8 Jan 2016. {{en}}
* Dennis Yi Tenen, [http://schloss-post.com/perspectives-free-libraries/ "Preliminary Thoughts on the Way to the Free Library Congress"], ''Schloss Post'' 2: "Authorship", Stuttgart: Akademie Schloss Solitude, 24 Mar 2016. {{en}}
* Balázs Bodó, [http://limn.it/in-the-name-of-humanity/ "In the Name of Humanity"], ''Limn'' 6 (2016). {{en}}
* Alexandra Elbakyan, [https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc850001/ "Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub"], trans. Kevin Hawkins and Anna Pechenina, 20 May 2016. [https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2016/info/transcript-and-translation-sci-hub-presentation Transcript and translation]. Talk given via Skype at the UNT Open Access Symposium, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.  {{ru}},{{en}}
* Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/Amateur_Librarian_-_A_Course_in_Critical_Pedagogy "Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical Pedagogy"], in ''Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek'', Brussels: Constant, 2016. {{en}}
** [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/Biblioth%C3%A9caire_amateur_-_un_cours_de_p%C3%A9dagogie_critique "Bibliothécaire amateur - un cours de pédagogie critique"], in ''Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek'', Brussels: Constant, 2016. {{fr}}
* Dušan Barok, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/A_Book_of_the_Web "A Book of the Web"], in ''Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek'', Brussels: Constant, 2016. {{en}}
* Yuri Dergunov (Юрий Дергунов), Alena Lyasheva (Алёна Ляшева), [http://september.media/archives/742 "Borba s kopiraytom ne mozhet ne byt' politicheskoy. Aleksandra Elbakyan"] [Борьба с копирайтом не может не быть политической. Александра Элбакян], ''September'', 22 Nov 2016. Interview with the founder of Sci-Hub. {{ru}}
** [http://a2larm.cz/2016/11/boj-s-copyrightem-je-nutne-politicky/ "Boj s copyrightem je nutně politický"], trans. Miroslav Tomek, ''A2larm'', 29 Nov 2016. {{cz}}
* [http://custodians.online/ubu/ "Happy birthday, Ubu.com!"], ''Custodians.online'', 30 Nov 2016; [https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1611/msg00101.html posted] on ''Nettime'', 30 Nov 2016. {{en}}

===Journal issues and special sections===
* [http://libreas.eu/ausgabe2/inhalt.htm ''LIBREAS. Library Ideas'' 2: "Das Elektronische Buch"], 2005. {{de}}
* [[Media:Tribuna_HAIP_2012.pdf|''Tribuna'': "HAIP festival & Tribuna: Hack-Act-Interact-Progress"]], Ljubljana: Student Organisation of the University of Ljubljana, Dec 2012, 8 pp. A section in the student monthly, based on the [[Haip|HAIP 2012: Public Library / Javna knjižnica]] festival. Texts by Kaja Kraner, Tina Dolinšek, and interviews with Marcell Mars and Dušan Barok. {{sl}}
* ''New Formations'' 78: "Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net", London: Lawrence & Wishart, Aug 2013. [http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/issue/nf78.html]

===Discussions===
* [http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2010-June/thread.html "Publishing In Convergence"], ''-empyre-'' list discussion moderated by [[Michael Deiter]], [[Morgan Currie]] and [[John Haltiwanger]], Jun 2010. 
* Jodi Dean, Sean Dockray, Alessandro Ludovico, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Nicholas Thoburn and Dmitry Vilensky, "[http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/pdfs/nf78Thoburnetal.pdf Materialities of Independent Publishing: A Conversation with AAAAARG, Chto Delat?, I Cite, Mute, and Neural]", ''New Formations'' 78, London: Lawrence & Wishart, Aug 2013, pp 157-178.
* Andre Meister, [http://netzpolitik.org/2013/e-book-piraten-im-interview-die-buchverleger-machen-genau-die-selben-fehler-wie-die-musikindustrie/ "E-Book-Piraten im Interview: 'Die Buchverleger machen genau die selben Fehler wie die Musikindustrie'"], ''Netzpolitik.org'', 25 Sep 2013. {{de}}
** [http://netzpolitik.org/2013/interviews-with-e-book-pirates-the-book-publishing-industry-is-repeating-the-same-mistakes-of-the-music-industry/ "Interviews with E-Book-Pirates: “The book publishing industry is repeating the same mistakes of the music industry”"], ''Netzpolitik.org'', 27 Sep 2013.
* [http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1601/threads.html "aaaaarg lawsuit digest"], ''Nettime'' list discussion, Jan 2016.
* [http://www.stephenmclaughlin.net/2016/03/19/sci-hublibgen-in-blogs-and-the-media-a-recent-bibliography/ "Sci-Hub/LibGen in Blogs and the Media: A Recent Bibliography"], compiled by Stephen McLaughlin, 19 Mar 2016.

===Academic research and writing===
* Roger Chartier, "Bibliothèques sans murs", ch. 3 in Chartier, ''L'ordre des livres'', Aix-en-Provence: Alinea, 1992. {{fr}}
** [[Media:Chartier_Roger_1993_Libraries_Without_Walls.pdf|"Libraries Without Walls"]], trans. Lydia Cochrane, ''Representations'' 42: "Future Libraries" (Spring 1993), pp 38-52; rev. as ch. 3 in Chartier, ''The Order of Books'', Stanford University Press, 1994, pp 61-88, n108-112, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=31b65fcfa00480594c75bc294e227de7 PDF].
* Roger Chartier, [[Media:Chartier_Roger_2004_Languages_Books_and_Reading_from_the_Printed_Word_to_the_Digital_Text.pdf|"Languages, Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text"]], trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan, ''Critical Inquiry'' 31 (Autumn 2004), pp 133-152.
* James A. Evans, [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5887/395.full "Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship"], ''Science'' 321:5887 (18 Jul 2008), pp 395-399. Discussion: [http://lariviere.ebsi.umontreal.ca/Publications/lettrescience2009.pdf Gingras, et al.; Wray; Bartheld, et al.; Andersen; Evans] (2009), [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.0275.pdf Verstak, et al.] (2014).
* Gary Hall, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=571 ''Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now''], University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 301 pp. 
* Rasmus Fleischer, ''Boken & Biblioteket'', Stockholm: Ink bokförlag, 2011, 192 pp. [http://www.inkbokforlag.com/b&b.html] {{sw}}
* Joe Karaganis (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1845 Media Piracy in Emerging Economies]'', Social Science Research Council, 2011, 440 pp.
* Hans-Christoph Hobohm, "Can Digital Libraries Generate Knowledge?", ''Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung'' 37:3 (141): "Controversies around the Digital Humanities", 2012, pp 218-229. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/41636606]
* Jonas Andersson Schwarz, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/V8g0kO4TbYIiqp_-rxv6XE0TFjsll1qu4MRXhAgWR0O8jhm4 Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption]'', Routledge, 2013. 
* Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Matthew Battles, ''The Library Beyond the Book'', Harvard University Press, 2014, 176 pp. [http://librarybeyondthebook.org/] [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674725034]
* Janneke Adema, ''[http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/the-perseverance-of-print-based-authorship-within-humanities-scholarship/ The Perseverance of Print-Based Authorship within Humanities Scholarship]'', 2014ff. Ph.D. Dissertation.
* Balázs Bodó, [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616631 "A Short History of the Russian Digital Shadow Libraries"], 4 Nov 2014.
* Dennis Tenen, Maxwell Foxman, [http://computationalculture.net/article/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation "Book Piracy as Peer Preservation"], ''Computational Culture'' 5, 9 Nov 2014.
* Balázs Bodó, [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616636 "Libraries in the Post-Scarcity Era"], in ''Copyrighting Creativity: Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property'', ed. Porsdam, Ashgate, 2015. [http://www.warsystems.hu/2014/11/24/bodo-b-2015-libraries-in-the-post-scarcity-era-in-porsdam-ed-copyrighting-creativity-creative-values-cultural-heritage-institutions-and-systems-of-intellectual-property-ashgate/]
* Jonas Andersson Schwarz, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/dde42203e4b8fb03cd8ef94872c9a231#81.081 "Honorability and the Pirate Ethic"], ch 4 in ''A Reader in International Media Piracy: Pirate Essays'', ed. Tilman Baumgärtel, Amsterdam University Press, 2015, pp 81-110.
* Davide Giorgetta, Valerio Nicoletti, ''Amateur: Non-Institutional Practices Between Digital Archiving and Publishing'', ISIA Urbino, 2015. Master's thesis. Features interviews with Janneke Adema, Dušan Barok, Balázs Bodó, Josephine Bosma, Annet Dekker, Sean Dockray, Kenneth Goldsmith, Geert Lovink, Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak, Domenico Quaranta, Gino Roncaglia, Femke Snelting, Henry Warwick, and Eva Weinmayr. [http://www.davidegiorgetta.com/amateur.html] {{it}},{{en}}
* Guillaume Cabanac, [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/asi.23445 "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A Study of a Text-Sharing Platform Driven by Biblioleaks and Crowdsourcing"], ''Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology'' 67:4, Apr 2016, pp 874-884.
* Balázs Bodó, [http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2816925 "Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement"], Jul 2016. Paper prepared for the 8th Annual Workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK, 6-8 July 2016.
* Cassius Adair, Lisa Nakamura, [https://lnakamur.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/american-literature-2017-adair-255-78.pdf "The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back: Woman of Color Feminism, Digital Labor, and Networked Pedagogy"], ''American Literature'' 89:2, Jun 2017, pp 255-278. [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=15453]
* Joe Karaganis (ed.), ''Shadow Libraries: Access to Educational Materials in the Digital Age'', MIT Press, forthcoming 2018.

===Survey articles===
* Janneke Adema, [http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/scanners-collectors-and-aggregators-on-the-%E2%80%98underground-movement%E2%80%99-of-pirated-theory-text-sharing/ "Scanners, Collectors and Aggregators. On the ‘Underground Movement’ of (Pirated) Theory Text Sharing"], ''Open Reflections'' blog, 20 Sep 2009. 
* Alessandro Ludovico, "[http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2013-08-26-ludovico-de.html Die dehnbare Bibliothek. Bücherdigitalisierung und daran anknüpfende Kunstprojekte]", ''Springerin'' 3, Vienna, 2013. {{de}}
** "[http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2013-08-26-ludovico-en.html The Liquid Library]", ''Eurozine'', 26 Aug 2013.
* Sarah Hamerman, [http://listheory.prattsils.org/cataloging-plunder-thoughts-on-the-digital-text-sharing-underground/ "Cataloging Plunder: Thoughts on the Digital Text-Sharing Underground"], ''LIS Theory'' blog, 20 Nov 2014; upd. as [http://www.fvckthemedia.com/issue61/pirate-libraries Pirate Libraries and the Fight for Open Information"], ''The Media'' 61: The Immaterial Digital Labor Issue, 5 Sep 2015.
* Pelle Snickars, [http://pellesnickars.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/snickars_publikationshack.pdf "Publikationshack"], in ''Universitetet som medium'', eds. Matts Lindström and Adam Wickberg Månsson, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2015, pp 9-46. {{sw}}

===Further reading===
Texts listed on the wiki pages of respective initiatives: [[UbuWeb]], [[Aaaaarg#Literature|Aaaaarg]], [[Monoskop:About#Writings about Monoskop|Monoskop]], [[Library Genesis]].

==See also==
[[Digital humanities]], [[Art servers]], [[Media archives]], [[Documentation science]], [[Commons]], [[Copyright activism]], [[Internet activism]]


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