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[[Image:Marxists Internet Archive.png|thumb|link=https://www.marxists.org|258px|[[Marxists Internet Archive]]<br>Est. 1990 by Zodiac. Online since 1993. Hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers.<br>[https://www.marxists.org/ Enter]. [http://www.facebook.com/groups/5636348598/ Facebook]. ]]
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[[Image:Aaaaarg.png|thumb|link=http://aaaaarg.fail|258px|[[Aaaaarg]]<br>Originally focused on critical theory, gradually expanded to the arts, humanities and social sciences. Est. c.2004 by [[Sean Dockray]] as part of the [http://thepublicschool.org/ Public School].<br>[http://aaaaarg.fail/ Enter]. [https://twitter.com/aaaarg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/aaaarg.org/ Facebook].]]
 
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[[Image:Electronic Poetry Center.png|thumb|link=http://epc.buffalo.edu|258px|[http://epc.buffalo.edu Electronic Poetry Center]<br>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] and [http://jacket2.org/reissues Jacket 2 Reissues].<br>[http://epc.buffalo.edu Enter]. ]]
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[[Image:Memory of the World.png|thumb|link=http://library.memoryoftheworld.org|258px|[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org Memory of the World]<br>Started as a proof of concept of the [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/cat/public-library/ Public Library] initiative. Est. 2012 by [[Marcell Mars]] and [[Tomislav Medak]].<br>[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org Enter]. [https://www.facebook.com/memoryoftheworld.org/ Facebook]. ]]
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[[Image:Aaaaarg.png|thumb|link=http://aaaaarg.fail|258px|[[Aaaaarg]]<br>Est. c2004 by [[Sean Dockray]] as part of the [http://thepublicschool.org/ Public School]. Originally focused on critical theory, gradually expanded to the arts, humanities and social sciences.<br>[http://aaaaarg.fail/ Enter]. [https://twitter.com/aaaarg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/aaaarg.org/ Facebook].]]
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[[Image:Textzcom.png|thumb|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20060411064533/http://www.textz.com/|258px|[[Textz.com]]<br>Hosted theory and fiction in plain text. Est. 2001 by [[Sebastian Lütgert|Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX]].<br>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060411064533/http://www.textz.com/ Enter] (archived version). ]]
 
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[[Image:Critical_Commons.png|thumb|link=http://www.criticalcommons.org|258px|[http://www.criticalcommons.org Critical Commons]<br>Est. 2008 by Steve F. Anderson as 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.<br>[http://www.criticalcommons.org Enter]. ]]
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[[Image:Marxists Internet Archive.png|thumb|link=https://www.marxists.org|258px|[[Marxists Internet Archive]]<br>Hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers. Est. 1990 by Zodiac. Online since 1993.<br>[https://www.marxists.org/ Enter]. [http://www.facebook.com/groups/5636348598/ Facebook]. ]]
 
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[[Image:Fragen.nu.png|thumb|link=http://www.fragen.nu|258px|[http://www.fragen.nu/ Fragen]<br>Created 2006-2011. Digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. CC BY-NC-ND. Maintained by Atria, Amsterdam.<br>[http://www.fragen.nu/ Enter].]]
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[[Image:Social Science Research Network.png|thumb|link=http://www.ssrn.com/en/|258px|[http://www.ssrn.com SSRN] (Social Science Research Network)<br>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.<br>[http://www.ssrn.com Enter]. ]]
  
 
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[[Image:Les Classiques des sciences sociales.png|thumb|link=http://classiques.uqac.ca|258px|[http://classiques.uqac.ca/ Les Classiques des sciences sociales]<br>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).<br>[http://classiques.uqac.ca Enter]. ]]
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[[Image:UbuWeb.png|thumb|link=http://ubu.com|258px|[[UbuWeb]]<br>Started as a resource for visual and sound poetry, soon expanded to the historical and contemporary avant-garde. Est. 1996 by [[Kenneth Goldsmith]].<br>[http://ubu.com Enter]. [https://twitter.com/ubuweb Twitter]. ]]
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[[Image:Electronic Poetry Center.png|thumb|link=http://epc.buffalo.edu|258px|[http://epc.buffalo.edu Electronic Poetry Center]<br>Hosts poetry books and periodicals; also lists contents from [http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse] and [http://jacket2.org/reissues Jacket 2 Reissues]. Est. 1994 by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein at SUNY Buffalo.<br>[http://epc.buffalo.edu Enter]. ]]
 
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[[Image:UbuWeb.png|thumb|link=http://ubu.com|258px|[[UbuWeb]]<br>Est. 1996 by [[Kenneth Goldsmith]] as a resource for visual and sound poetry, soon expanded to the historical and contemporary avant-garde.<br>[http://ubu.com Enter]. [https://twitter.com/ubuweb Twitter]. ]]
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[[Image:Eclipse.png|thumb|link=http://eclipsearchive.org/|258px|[http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse]<br>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]]. <br>[http://eclipsearchive.org/ Enter].]]
 
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[[Image:Monoskop.png|thumb|link=https://monoskop.org|258px|[[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]]<br>Est. 2004 by [[Dušan Barok]] as a media art research initiative. Gradually expanded toward avant-garde media studies. [[Monoskop Log]] library has branched out in 2009.<br>[https://monoskop.org Enter]. [https://twitter.com/monoskop Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/monoskoplog/ Facebook]. ]]
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[[Image:Critical_Commons.png|thumb|link=http://www.criticalcommons.org|258px|[http://www.criticalcommons.org Critical Commons]<br>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.<br>[http://www.criticalcommons.org Enter]. ]]
 
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[[Image:Memory of the World.png|thumb|link=http://library.memoryoftheworld.org|258px|[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org Memory of the World]<br>Est. 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.<br>[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org Enter]. [https://www.facebook.com/memoryoftheworld.org/ Facebook]. ]]
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[[Image:Sci-Hub.jpg|thumb|link=https://sci-hub.tw|258px|[https://sci-hub.tw Sci-Hub]<br>Provides mass and public access to 60 million research papers. Est. 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan.<br>[https://sci-hub.tw Enter]. [https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub Twitter]. ]]
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[[Image:The Anarchist Library.png|thumb|link=http://theanarchistlibrary.org/|258px|[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ The Anarchist Library]<br>An archive focusing on anarchism. The site also 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. Est. c2008.<br>[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ Enter].]]
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[[Image:Social Science Research Network.png|thumb|link=http://www.ssrn.com/en/|258px|[http://www.ssrn.com SSRN] (Social Science Research Network)<br>Est. 1994 by Michael Jensen and Wayne Marr. 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.<br>[http://www.ssrn.com Enter]. ]]
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[[Image:Monoskop.png|thumb|link=https://monoskop.org|258px|[[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]]<br>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.<br>[https://monoskop.org Enter]. [https://twitter.com/monoskop Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/monoskoplog/ Facebook]. ]]
 
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[[Image:Textzcom.png|thumb|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20060411064533/http://www.textz.com/|258px|[[Textz.com]]<br>Est. 2001 by [[Sebastian Lütgert|Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX]]. Hosted theory and fiction in plain text. [http://web.archive.org/web/20060411064533/http://www.textz.com/ Enter] (archived version). ]]
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[[Image:Library Stack.png|thumb|link=https://www.librarystack.org/|258px|[[Library Stack]]<br>Database initiative for digital objects and publications. Est. 2015 by Erik Wysocan and Benjamin Tiven.<br>[https://librarystack.org Enter]. [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LibraryStack?src=hash Twitter]. ]]
 
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[[Image:The Anarchist Library.png|thumb|link=http://theanarchistlibrary.org/|258px|[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ The Anarchist Library]<br>Est. c2008 as an archive focusing on anarchism. The site also 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.<br>[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ Enter].]]
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[[Image:LibGen.png|thumb|link=http://gen.lib.rus.ec/|258px|[[Library Genesis]]<br>A host to 3 million books. Est. 2008.<br>[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ Enter]. ]]
 
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[[Image:Uberty.png|thumb|link=http://uberty.org/|258px|[http://uberty.org/ Uberty]<br>A resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy. Est. 2015.<br>[http://uberty.org/ Enter]. [https://twitter.com/ubertyorg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/uberty.org/ Facebook]. ]]
 
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[[Image:Uberty.png|thumb|link=http://uberty.org/|258px|[http://uberty.org/ Uberty]<br>Est. 2015 as a resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy.<br>[http://uberty.org/ Enter]. [https://twitter.com/ubertyorg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/uberty.org/ Facebook]. ]]
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[[Image:Fragen.nu.png|thumb|link=http://www.fragen.nu|258px|[http://www.fragen.nu/ Fragen]<br>Digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. CC BY-NC-ND. Maintained by Atria, Amsterdam. Created 2006-2011.<br>[http://www.fragen.nu/ Enter].]]
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[[Image:Les Classiques des sciences sociales.png|thumb|link=http://classiques.uqac.ca|258px|[http://classiques.uqac.ca/ Les Classiques des sciences sociales]<br>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).<br>[http://classiques.uqac.ca Enter]. ]]
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* [[Ideographies of Knowledge]] symposium, Mundaneum, Mons, 3 Oct 2015. [[Ideographies of Knowledge|Video]].
 
* [[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://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/]
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* [http://radical.piratical.cryptonomic.net Radical Piratical] symposium, University of Malmö, 2-3 May 2016.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20180504083701/https://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://xpmethod.plaintext.in/events/dissent.html Knowledge Architectures] talks and workshops, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2-6 Jul 2016.
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* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law_(2017) Interfacing the Law], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2017. Seminar in experimental publishing.
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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law_(2017) Interfacing the Law], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2017. Seminar in experimental publishing.
 
* [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].
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
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* [http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/events/lahore.html Knowledge Architectures: Lahore] workshop, Centre for Governance and Policy, IT University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, 12-13 Mar 2018.  
 
* [http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/events/lahore.html Knowledge Architectures: Lahore] workshop, Centre for Governance and Policy, IT University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, 12-13 Mar 2018.  
 
* [http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2018/ Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens] exhibitions and symposia, Onassis Cultural Center & National Museum of Contemporary Art (ESTE), Athens, 16-18 Mar 2018. [[Media:Shadow_Libraries_Ubuweb_Athens_booklet_2018.pdf|Booklet PDF]].
 
* [http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2018/ Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens] exhibitions and symposia, Onassis Cultural Center & National Museum of Contemporary Art (ESTE), Athens, 16-18 Mar 2018. [[Media:Shadow_Libraries_Ubuweb_Athens_booklet_2018.pdf|Booklet PDF]].
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* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law Interfacing the Law (2018)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2018. Seminar in experimental publishing.
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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law Interfacing the Law (2018)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2018. Seminar in experimental publishing.
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* [https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_149235.php Artistic Shadow Libraries] video installation, within Find the File festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 21-24 Mar 2019. Cornelia Sollfrank’s interview montage shows artists creating web archives as commons practice.
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* Pirate Care, conference, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, 19-20 Jun 2019. [https://www.piratecare.net/posts/call-for-papers/ CfP].
  
 
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* 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, [[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}}
 
* 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}}
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* 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}}
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* 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; posted on ''Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Open-Media-Studies-Blog'', 17 Dec 2018. 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}}
 
** [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}}
 
* 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}}
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* What, How & for Whom / WHW, [[Media:WHW_2016_There_Is_Something_Political_in_the_City_Air.pdf|"'There Is Something Political in the City Air'"]], in ''Extending the Dialogue'', Ljubljana: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Berlin: Archive Books, and Vienna: Erste Foundation, 2016, pp 286-307. {{en}}
 
* What, How & for Whom / WHW, [[Media:WHW_2016_There_Is_Something_Political_in_the_City_Air.pdf|"'There Is Something Political in the City Air'"]], in ''Extending the Dialogue'', Ljubljana: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Berlin: Archive Books, and Vienna: Erste Foundation, 2016, pp 286-307. {{en}}
 
* Clemens Apprich, "Ora et labora (et lege). Zur Politik postdigitaler Handlungsfelder", ''Kunstforum'' 242: "Postdigital 1", 2016. [https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/ora-et-labora-et-lege/] {{de}}
 
* Clemens Apprich, "Ora et labora (et lege). Zur Politik postdigitaler Handlungsfelder", ''Kunstforum'' 242: "Postdigital 1", 2016. [https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/ora-et-labora-et-lege/] {{de}}
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* Sean Dockray, Benjamin Forster, Public Office, [https://samiz-dat.github.io/hyperreadings/ "README.md"], Hyperreadings, 15 Feb 2018. {{en}}
 
* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/Shadow_Libraries|"Shadow Libraries"]], ''Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens'' symposium, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Mar 2018. On access to culture and knowledge. [http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2018/] {{en}}
 
* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/Shadow_Libraries|"Shadow Libraries"]], ''Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens'' symposium, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Mar 2018. On access to culture and knowledge. [http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2018/] {{en}}
 
* Shannon Mattern, [http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/03/making-knowledge-available/ "Making Knowledge Available: The Media of Generous Scholarship"], ''Public Seminar'', 22 Mar 2018. {{en}}
 
* Shannon Mattern, [http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/03/making-knowledge-available/ "Making Knowledge Available: The Media of Generous Scholarship"], ''Public Seminar'', 22 Mar 2018. {{en}}
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* Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://www.ocopy.net/essays/cornelia-sollfrank/ "The Surplus of Copying: How Shadow Libraries and Pirate Archives Contribute to the Creation of Cultural Memory and the Commons"], ''originalcopy'', Nov 2018. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/?p=581] {{en}}
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* Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, [[Media:Graziano_Mars_Medak_2019_Learning_from_Syllabus.pdf|"Learning from #Syllabus"]], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21020 State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art]'', eds. Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, and Inte Gloerich, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2019, pp 115-128. {{en}}
  
 
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* Joe Karaganis, Balázs Bodó, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/07/13/russia-is-building-a-new-napster-but-for-academic-research/ "Russia is Building a New Napster — But for Academic Research"], ''Washington Post'', 13 Jul 2018.
 
* Joe Karaganis, Balázs Bodó, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/07/13/russia-is-building-a-new-napster-but-for-academic-research/ "Russia is Building a New Napster — But for Academic Research"], ''Washington Post'', 13 Jul 2018.
 
* Mario Hibert, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20442 Digitalni odrast i postdigitalna dobra. Kritičko bibliotekarstvo, disruptivni mediji i taktičko obrazovanje]'', Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Institut za političku ekologiju, Sep 2018, 152 pp. {{cr}}
 
* Mario Hibert, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20442 Digitalni odrast i postdigitalna dobra. Kritičko bibliotekarstvo, disruptivni mediji i taktičko obrazovanje]'', Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Institut za političku ekologiju, Sep 2018, 152 pp. {{cr}}
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* Clemens Blümel, Balazs Bodo, et al., [http://openup-h2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OpenUP_D6.3_Final-Use-Case-Evaluation-Report.pdf#page=51 "Piratical demand as a form of impact indicator and reaching unexpected audiences"], in ''OPENing UP new methods indicators and tools for peer review, impact measurement and dissemination of research results'', 2018, in 50-60.
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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.
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* 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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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.
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Memory of the World
Started as a proof of concept of the Public Library initiative. Est. 2012 by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.
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Textz.com
Hosted theory and fiction in plain text. Est. 2001 by Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX.
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Marxists Internet Archive
Hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers. Est. 1990 by Zodiac. Online since 1993.
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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.
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UbuWeb
Started as a resource for visual and sound poetry, soon expanded to the historical and contemporary avant-garde. Est. 1996 by Kenneth Goldsmith.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sci-Hub
Provides mass and public access to 60 million research papers. Est. 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan.
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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.
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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.
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Library Stack
Database initiative for digital objects and publications. Est. 2015 by Erik Wysocan and Benjamin Tiven.
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Library Genesis
A host to 3 million books. Est. 2008.
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Uberty
A resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy. Est. 2015.
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Fragen
Digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. CC BY-NC-ND. Maintained by Atria, Amsterdam. Created 2006-2011.
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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).
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Arts, humanities and social sciences

Libraries

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Conferences, workshops, exhibitions

Interventions and research

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)

Essays, talks, statements, interviews

Journal issues and special sections

Discussions

Academic research and writing

Survey articles

Further reading

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

General interest

Libraries

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)

Autonomous/independent libraries

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National libraries

Commercial libraries hosting academic journals

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


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