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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:Memory of the World.png|thumb|link=https://library.memoryoftheworld.org|258px|[[Memory of the World]]<br>Started as a proof of concept of the [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/tag/library/ Public Library] initiative. Est. 2012 by [[Marcell Mars]] and [[Tomislav Medak]].<br>[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org Enter]. [https://mobile.twitter.com/memoryofworld Twitter].[https://www.facebook.com/memoryoftheworld.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). ]]
 
[[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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* [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/?cat=5 Creating Commons] workshop, HEK, Basel, 19-22 Oct 2017.
 
* [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/?cat=5 Creating Commons] workshop, HEK, Basel, 19-22 Oct 2017.
 
* [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.  
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* [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://www.onassis.org/whats-on/shadow-libraries-ubuweb-athens/symposium-shadow-libraries 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://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law_(2018) Interfacing the Law (2018)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2018. Seminar in experimental publishing.
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law_(2018) Interfacing the Law (2018)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2018. Seminar in experimental publishing.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law Interfacing the Law (2019)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2019. Seminar in experimental publishing.
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law Interfacing the Law (2019)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2019. Seminar in experimental publishing.
 
* [https://www.piratecare.net/ Pirate Care], conference, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, 19-20 Jun 2019. [https://www.piratecare.net/posts/call-for-papers/ CfP]. [https://www.facebook.com/events/1352892064873429 FB].
 
* [https://www.piratecare.net/ Pirate Care], conference, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, 19-20 Jun 2019. [https://www.piratecare.net/posts/call-for-papers/ CfP]. [https://www.facebook.com/events/1352892064873429 FB].
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* [https://www.panke.gallery/exhibition/open-scores Open Scores] exhibition and workshops, Panke Gallery, Berlin, 21 Sep-12 Oct 2019. Curated by Creating Commons (Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder). [https://www.facebook.com/events/582475215490769/ FB].
 
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* 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}}
 
* Marcell Mars, Klemo Vladimir, [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/calibre-lets-share-books/ "Download & How to: Calibre & let's share books"], ''Memory of the World'', 28 Oct 2014. {{en}}
 
* Marcell Mars, Klemo Vladimir, [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/calibre-lets-share-books/ "Download & How to: Calibre & let's share books"], ''Memory of the World'', 28 Oct 2014. {{en}}
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* 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}}
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* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/Poetics_of_Research|"Poetics of Research"]], ''Public Library'' conference, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1 Nov 2014. On the cultural algorithms historically conditioned by scholarly research and publishing. {{en}}
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* Dennis Tenen, Maxwell Foxman, [http://computationalculture.net/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation/ "Book Piracy as Peer Preservation"], ''Computational Culture'' 4, 9 Nov 2014. {{en}}
 
* 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. {{en}}
 
* 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. {{en}}
 
* Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://artwarez.org/191.0.html "Weitergeben, was einem selbst nicht gehört"], ''Springerin'' 21(1): "Kritische Netzpraxis", Winter 2015, pp 35-37. An interview about ''Giving What You Don't Have''. [https://www.springerin.at/2015/1/] {{de}}
 
* Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://artwarez.org/191.0.html "Weitergeben, was einem selbst nicht gehört"], ''Springerin'' 21(1): "Kritische Netzpraxis", Winter 2015, pp 35-37. An interview about ''Giving What You Don't Have''. [https://www.springerin.at/2015/1/] {{de}}
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* [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}}
 
* [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}}
 
* 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, Dec 2016, pp 286-307. [http://www.erstestiftung.org/en/extending-the-dialogue/] {{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, Dec 2016, pp 286-307. [http://www.erstestiftung.org/en/extending-the-dialogue/] {{en}}
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* Petar Jandrić, Ana Kuzmanić, [[Media:Jandric Petar Kuzmanic Ana 2017 Knowledge Commons and Activist Pedagogies From Idealist Positions to Collective Actions Conversation with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.pdf|"Knowledge Commons and Activist Pedagogies: From Idealist Positions to Collective Actions: Conversation with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak"]], in Jandrić, ''Learning in the Age of Digital Reason'', Rotterdam: Sense, 2017, pp 243-269. {{en}}
 
* Sean Dockray, Benjamin Forster, Public Office, [https://samiz-dat.github.io/hyperreadings/ "README.md"], Hyperreadings, 15 Feb 2018. {{en}}
 
* 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}}
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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}}
 
* 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}}
 
* 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}}
 
* 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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* Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, [http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/against-innovation-compromised-institutional-agency-and-acts-custodianship "Against Innovation: Compromised Institutional Agency and Acts of Custodianship"], ''Ephemera'' 19(2): "Repair Matters", May 2019, pp 345-368, [[Media:Mars Marcell Medak Tomislav 2019 Against Innovation Compromised Institutional Agency and Acts of Custodianship.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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* Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, [https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Lison_Andrew_Mars_Marcell_Medak_Tomislav_Prelinger_Rick_Archives_2019.pdf#page=73 "System of a Takedown: Control and De-commodification in the Circuits of Academic Publishing"], in Andrew Lison, et al., ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21413 Archives]'', Lüneburg: meson.press, and University of Minnesota Press, pp 47-68. {{en}}
  
 
===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}}
 
** [[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].
 
** [[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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* 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.
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* 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).
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* 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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** ''[[Media:Vandendorpe Christian From Papyrus to Hypertext Toward the Universal Digital Library 1999.pdf|From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library]]'', trans. Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 191 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5d75db679ff37c2d76622bd8 ARG]. Reviews: [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1162/leon.2010.43.2.186b Anker] (Leonardo), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/asi.21113 Warwick] (J Am Soc Inf Sci Tech), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/10714421.2010.505163 Stinson] (Comm Rev), [https://www.academia.edu/8571026/ Collins] (Journ Mass Comm Q). [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/34shn8cs9780252034350.html]
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* 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.
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* 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.  
 
* 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]
 
* 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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* Jonas Andersson Schwarz, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/V8g0kO4TbYIiqp_-rxv6XE0TFjsll1qu4MRXhAgWR0O8jhm4 Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption]'', Routledge, 2013.  
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* Jonas Andersson Schwarz, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/e711d8db-8d12-4404-ae1d-d6babfcfa9de 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]
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
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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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* 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]
 
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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://golibgen.io/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
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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/].
 
* [http://sci-hub.tw Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan].
 
* [http://sci-hub.tw Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan].
 
* [[Bibliotik]], a torrent site for e-books.
 
* [[Bibliotik]], a torrent site for e-books.

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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.
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
Hosted theory and fiction in plain text. Est. 2001 by Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX.
Enter (archived version).

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.
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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.
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.

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  • 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

  • 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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