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[[Image:Bibliotecha.png{{!}}thumb{{!}}258px{{!}}link=http://bibliotecha.info{{!}}[http://bibliotecha.info Bibliotecha] ]]
 
[[Image:Bibliotecha.png{{!}}thumb{{!}}258px{{!}}link=http://bibliotecha.info{{!}}[http://bibliotecha.info Bibliotecha] ]]
 
* [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://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.
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* [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/ Creating Commons], research project exploring interstitial practices which open the space between art and commons, Jan 2017-Jan 2020. Conducted by [[Felix Stalder]], [[Cornelia Sollfrank]] and [[Shusha Niederberger]]. Based at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts. In cooperation with HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel).
 
* [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/ Creating Commons], research project exploring interstitial practices which open the space between art and commons, Jan 2017-Jan 2020. Conducted by [[Felix Stalder]], [[Cornelia Sollfrank]] and [[Shusha Niederberger]]. Based at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts. In cooperation with HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel).
 
* [http://syllabus.pirate.care/ Pirate Care, a syllabus], a research process - primarily based in the transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”.
 
* [http://syllabus.pirate.care/ Pirate Care, a syllabus], a research process - primarily based in the transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”.
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* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Summary_of_the_bootleg_library Bootleg Library], a collection of republished texts and the readers collected around them. A project by [[Simon Browne]].
  
 
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* Cornelia Sollfrank, "Im Schatten der öffentlichen Bibliothek. Künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen mit den digitalen Commons", in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22574 Sich mit Sammlungen anlegen. Gemeinsame Dinge und alternative Archive]'', eds. Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Nora Sternfeld, Luisa Ziaja, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, pp 85-94. {{de}}
 
* Cornelia Sollfrank, "Im Schatten der öffentlichen Bibliothek. Künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen mit den digitalen Commons", in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22574 Sich mit Sammlungen anlegen. Gemeinsame Dinge und alternative Archive]'', eds. Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Nora Sternfeld, Luisa Ziaja, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, pp 85-94. {{de}}
 
* [https://serveur410.com/dans-lombre-dinternet-des-bibliotheques-illegales/ "Dans l’ombre d’internet… des bibliothèques illégales"], ''serveur410'', Oct 2020. {{fr}}
 
* [https://serveur410.com/dans-lombre-dinternet-des-bibliotheques-illegales/ "Dans l’ombre d’internet… des bibliothèques illégales"], ''serveur410'', Oct 2020. {{fr}}
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* Olga Goriunova, [[Media:Goriunova Olga 2021 Uploading our Libraries The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons.pdf|"Uploading our Libraries: The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons"]], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22865 Aesthetics of the Commons]'', eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 41-61. {{en}}
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* Judith Siegmund , [https://monoskop.org/images/7/77/Sollfrank_Stalder_Niederberger_eds_Aesthetics_of_the_Commons_2021.pdf#page=81 "Which “Aesthetics of the Commons”?"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22865 Aesthetics of the Commons]'', eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 81-97. {{en}}
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* Hoçâ Cové-Mbede, [https://netzpolitik.org/2021/academic-research-sci-hubs-fight-against-private-ownership-of-knowledge/ "Sci-Hub’s Fight Against Private Ownership of Knowledge"], ''Netzpolitik'', Jan 2021; exp. as [https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/04/20/alexandra-elbakyan/ "Celebrating a Decade of Knowledge. A conversation with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan"], Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Apr 2021. [https://www.tecno-grafias.com/nine-questions-for-alexandra-elbakyan.html] {{en}}
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** [https://netzpolitik.org/2021/akademische-forschung-sci-hubs-kampf-gegen-privaten-besitz-von-wissenschaft/ "Sci-Hubs Kampf gegen privaten Besitz von Wissenschaft"], ''Netzpolitik'', Jan 2021. {{de}}
  
 
===Journal issues and special sections===
 
===Journal issues and special sections===
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* Roger Chartier, "Bibliothèques sans murs", ch. 3 in Chartier, ''L'ordre des livres'', Aix-en-Provence: Alinea, 1992. {{fr}}
 
* Roger Chartier, "Bibliothèques sans murs", ch. 3 in Chartier, ''L'ordre des livres'', Aix-en-Provence: Alinea, 1992. {{fr}}
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** [[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].
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** [[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://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=31b65fcfa00480594c75bc294e227de7 PDF].
  
 
* Christian Vandendorpe, ''Du papyrus à l'hypertexte: essai sur les mutations du texte et de la lecture'', Montréal: Boréal, 1999, 271 pp; Paris: Découverte, 1999, 271 pp. {{fr}}
 
* Christian Vandendorpe, ''Du papyrus à l'hypertexte: essai sur les mutations du texte et de la lecture'', Montréal: Boréal, 1999, 271 pp; Paris: Découverte, 1999, 271 pp. {{fr}}
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* 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.  
 
* 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}}
 
* Rasmus Fleischer, ''Boken & Biblioteket'', Stockholm: Ink bokförlag, 2011, 192 pp. [http://www.inkbokforlag.com/b&b.html] {{sw}}
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* Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, Martha Woodmansee (eds.), ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=C17F762B1C1561DAF91BB58163040C98 Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective]'', University of Chicago Press, 2011, 480 pp. [https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo11103013.html]
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* Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, Martha Woodmansee (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C17F762B1C1561DAF91BB58163040C98 Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective]'', University of Chicago Press, 2011, 480 pp. [https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo11103013.html]
 
* Joe Karaganis (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1845 Media Piracy in Emerging Economies]'', Social Science Research Council, 2011, 440 pp.
 
* 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]
 
* 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]
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* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* Dennis Tenen, Maxwell Foxman, [http://computationalculture.net/article/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation "Book Piracy as Peer Preservation"], ''Computational Culture'' 5, 9 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.
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* 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/]
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* Balázs Bodó, [https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=969f8e58-7e14-4d82-b55b-ead5b5ca6ccb "Libraries in the Post-Scarcity Era"], in ''Copyrighting Creativity: Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property'', ed. Porsdam, Ashgate, 2015.  
 
* 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.
 
* 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}}
 
* 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}}
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* Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, [https://monoskop.org/media/text/thylstrup_2018_the_politics_of_mass_digitization/#c004_d2e69 "The Licit and Illicit Nature of Mass Digitization"], ch 4 in Thylstrup, ''The Politics of Mass Digitization'', MIT Press, 2018, pp 79-100. On Lib.ru, Monoskop, and UbuWeb.
 
* Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, [https://monoskop.org/media/text/thylstrup_2018_the_politics_of_mass_digitization/#c004_d2e69 "The Licit and Illicit Nature of Mass Digitization"], ch 4 in Thylstrup, ''The Politics of Mass Digitization'', MIT Press, 2018, pp 79-100. On Lib.ru, Monoskop, and UbuWeb.
 
* Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes, [https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1585874 "The Postdigital Challenge of Redefining Academic Publishing from the Margins"], ''Learning, Media and Technology'', Feb 2019.
 
* Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes, [https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1585874 "The Postdigital Challenge of Redefining Academic Publishing from the Margins"], ''Learning, Media and Technology'', Feb 2019.
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* Neda Atanasoski, Kalindi Vora, [[Media:Atanasoski_Neda_Vora_Kalindi_2019_Sharing_Collaboration_and_the_Commons_in_the_Fourth_Industrial_Revolution.pdf|"Sharing, Collaboration, and the Commons in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Appropriative Techniques of Technoliberal Capitalism"]], ch 2 in Atanasoski, Vora, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21254 Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Mar 2019, pp 54-86. On Public Library.
 
* Sarah Müller, ''[[Media:Mueller_Sarah Schattenbibliotheken Auswirkungen auf Forschung und Bibliotheken am Beispiel von Sci-Hub 2019.pdf{{!}}Schattenbibliotheken - Auswirkungen auf Forschung und Bibliotheken am Beispiel von Sci-Hub]]'', Cologne: Technische Hochschule Köln, Jul 2019, 71 pp. Bachelor thesis. [https://publiscologne.th-koeln.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1411] {{de}}
 
* Sarah Müller, ''[[Media:Mueller_Sarah Schattenbibliotheken Auswirkungen auf Forschung und Bibliotheken am Beispiel von Sci-Hub 2019.pdf{{!}}Schattenbibliotheken - Auswirkungen auf Forschung und Bibliotheken am Beispiel von Sci-Hub]]'', Cologne: Technische Hochschule Köln, Jul 2019, 71 pp. Bachelor thesis. [https://publiscologne.th-koeln.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1411] {{de}}
 
* Carlos Bernardo Caycedo Casallas, ''[https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/39122792/Thesis.pdf Updating Civil Disobedience: Whistleblowing, Anonymous Hacktivism, and Academic Piracy]'', University of Amsterdam, 2019, 177 pp. PhD dissertation. [https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=547c0373-4704-4ba3-bfb1-2b152019d06b]
 
* Carlos Bernardo Caycedo Casallas, ''[https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/39122792/Thesis.pdf Updating Civil Disobedience: Whistleblowing, Anonymous Hacktivism, and Academic Piracy]'', University of Amsterdam, 2019, 177 pp. PhD dissertation. [https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=547c0373-4704-4ba3-bfb1-2b152019d06b]
 
* Abigail De Kosnik, [[Media:De Kosnik Abigail 2019 Piracy Is the Future of Culture Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse.pdf{{!}}"Piracy Is the Future of Culture: Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse"]], ''Third Text'', Nov 2019.
 
* Abigail De Kosnik, [[Media:De Kosnik Abigail 2019 Piracy Is the Future of Culture Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse.pdf{{!}}"Piracy Is the Future of Culture: Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse"]], ''Third Text'', Nov 2019.
 
* Roberto Cruz Arzabal, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b0/Angel_Reyes_Johanna_C_Buj_Joseba_coord_Exclusion_y_deriva_Dinamicas_fronterizas_de_la_digitalidad_2020.pdf#page=163 "La piratería como forma imposible: circulación y estratificación de la teoría contemporánea"], in ''Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad'', eds. Johanna C. Ángel Reyes and Joseba Buj, Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Jan 2020, pp 163-186. {{es}}
 
* Roberto Cruz Arzabal, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b0/Angel_Reyes_Johanna_C_Buj_Joseba_coord_Exclusion_y_deriva_Dinamicas_fronterizas_de_la_digitalidad_2020.pdf#page=163 "La piratería como forma imposible: circulación y estratificación de la teoría contemporánea"], in ''Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad'', eds. Johanna C. Ángel Reyes and Joseba Buj, Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Jan 2020, pp 163-186. {{es}}
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* Balázs Bodó, Dániel Antal, Zoltán Puha, [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242509 "Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia"], ''PLoS ONE'' 15:12, Dec 2020.
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* Bodó B, Antal D, Puha Z (2020) [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242509 Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0242509.]  
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* Anna Poletti, [https://artseverywhere.ca/2021/02/04/six-theses/ "Six Contracting Theses on Literature in the Polity of Literature"] ''ArtsEverywhere'', Feb 2021.
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* [[Library.nu]], formerly Ebooksclub (2004-2007) and Gigapedia (2007-2010), closed down in Feb 2012.
 
* [[Library.nu]], formerly Ebooksclub (2004-2007) and Gigapedia (2007-2010), closed down in Feb 2012.
 
* [http://openlibrary.org Open Library], an e-book lending library, est. 2006 by the Internet Archive.
 
* [http://openlibrary.org Open Library], an e-book lending library, est. 2006 by the Internet Archive.
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* [[Library Genesis]] (LibGen), est. March 2008, has multiple interfaces, mirrors and versions [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
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* [[Library Genesis]] (LibGen), est. March 2008, has multiple interfaces, mirrors and versions [http://libgen.rs/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
 
* [http://sci-hub.se Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan]. [https://sci-hub.now.sh/]
 
* [http://sci-hub.se Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan]. [https://sci-hub.now.sh/]
 
* [[Bibliotik]], a torrent site for e-books.
 
* [[Bibliotik]], a torrent site for e-books.
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* Portugal, [http://purl.pt BND]
 
* Portugal, [http://purl.pt BND]
 
* Qatar, [http://www.qdl.qa QDL]
 
* Qatar, [http://www.qdl.qa QDL]
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* Romania, [http://digibuc.ro DigiBuc], [http://digitool.dc.bmms.ro:8881/ (old version)]
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* Romania, [http://www.bibnat.ro/ BibNat].
 
* 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
 
* 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
 
* Serbia, [http://www.digitalna.nb.rs/ DNBS] national library, [http://scindeks.ceon.rs SCIndeks] journals

Revision as of 20:49, 27 April 2021

Aaaaarg
Originally focused on critical theory, gradually expanded to the arts, humanities and social sciences. Est. c.2004 by Sean Dockray as part of the Public School.
Enter. Twitter. Facebook.

Memory of the World
Started as a proof of concept of the Public Library initiative. Est. 2012 by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.
Enter. Twitter.Facebook.

Textz.com
Hosts theory and fiction. Est. 2001 by Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX.
Enter.

Marxists Internet Archive
Hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers. Est. 1990 by Zodiac. Online since 1993.
Enter. Facebook.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
The core of the collection are preprint versions of academic papers in PDF submitted by authors. Until 2016 run by Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. (SSEP), later acquired by Elsevier. Est. 1994 by Michael Jensen and Wayne Marr.
Enter.
UbuWeb
Started as a resource for visual and sound poetry, soon expanded to the historical and contemporary avant-garde. Est. 1996 by Kenneth Goldsmith.
Enter. Twitter.

Electronic Poetry Center
Hosts poetry books and periodicals; also lists contents from Eclipse and Jacket 2 Reissues. Est. 1994 by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein at SUNY Buffalo.
Enter.

Eclipse
A free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity. Est. 2003 by Craig Dworkin.
Enter.

Critical Commons
An online repository supporting the fair use of copyrighted media by educators. A project of the Media Arts and Practice division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Est. 2008 by Steve F. Anderson.
Enter.

Sci-Hub
Provides mass and public access to 60 million research papers. Est. 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan.
Enter. Twitter.

The Anarchist Library
An archive focusing on anarchism. The site also provides an online service, Bookbuilder, to create collections of texts, with editing features, changing layout and rendering to PDFs or EPUBs. Est. c2008.
Enter.
Monoskop
Initially a media art research initiative, Monoskop gradually expanded toward avant-garde media studies. Est. 2004 by Dušan Barok. Monoskop Log library has branched out in 2009.
Enter. Twitter. Facebook.

Library Stack
Database initiative for digital objects and publications. Est. 2015 by Erik Wysocan and Benjamin Tiven.
Enter. Twitter.

Library Genesis
A host to 3 million books. Est. 2008.
Enter.

Uberty
A resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy. Est. 2015.
Enter. Twitter. Facebook.

Fragen
Digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. CC BY-NC-ND. Maintained by Atria, Amsterdam. Created 2006-2011.
Enter.

Les Classiques des sciences sociales
Hosts Francophone works in social and human sciences. 6000 publications from 2000 authors. Est. 1993 by Jean-Marie Tremblay. Maintained by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC).
Enter.

Arts, humanities and social sciences

Libraries

See above

See also

Conferences, workshops, exhibitions

Interventions, research, projects

Bibliotecha

Scanning

Literature, resources

Collections

Video
Print
  • Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, 144 pp. Texts by McKenzie Wark, Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, Manar Zarroug, and Paul Otlet. (English)/(Croatian)
  • Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti's interviews with Dušan Barok, Geert Lovink, Janneke Adema, Henry Warwick, 2015. (English)
  • Guerrilla Open Access, ed. Memory of the World, Coventry: Post Office Press, Rope Press, and Memory of the World, 2018, 34 pp. Texts by Memory of the World, Christopher Kelty, Balázs Bodó, and Laurie Allen. (English)
  • The Library Is Open, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 09), Jul 2019, 92 pp. Website. (English)
  • Aesthetics of the Commons, eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, 275 pp. (English)
Online
  • Interfacing the Law, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 3), Jun 2017. (English)
  • Interfacing the Law, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 06), Jun 2018. (English)
  • Inverse Reader, ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Sep 2019ff. A collection of 64 texts, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. [15] (English)

Essays, talks, statements, interviews

Journal issues and special sections

Discussions

Academic research and writing

  • Roger Chartier, "Bibliothèques sans murs", ch. 3 in Chartier, L'ordre des livres, Aix-en-Provence: Alinea, 1992. (French)
    • "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, PDF.

Further reading

Texts listed on the wiki pages of respective initiatives: UbuWeb, Aaaaarg, Monoskop, Library Genesis.

General interest

Libraries

Autonomous/independent libraries

See also

Public domain, Creative Commons and Open Access texts

  • 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. (multiple languages)
  • 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 Greek, Roman, Arabic, Germanic and other texts. Maintained by the Department of the Classics, Tufts U.
  • 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. (English)
  • 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. (multiple languages)
  • Liber Liber, est. 1994 by Marco Calvo, Gino Roncaglia, Paolo Barberi, Fabio Ciotti and Marco Zela. (Italian)
  • 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. (multiple languages)
  • Aozora Bunko, est. 1997, the Japanese Project Gutenberg. (Japanese)
  • Wikisource, a Wikimedia project started 2003. Contains around 500k texts in wiki form. (multiple languages)
  • 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. (multiple languages)

National libraries

Commercial libraries hosting academic journals

See also

See also

See also

Digital humanities, Art servers, Media archives, Documentation science, Commons, Copyright activism, Internet activism


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