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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: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: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: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). ]]
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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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>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: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: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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[[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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* [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].
 
* [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].
 
* [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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* [https://pirate.care/blog/2019/11/11/pirate-care-a-syllabus-collective-writing-retreat/ Pirate.Care: A Collective Syllabus Writing Retreat], Rijeka, 25-29 Nov 2019.
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* [https://pirate.care/blog/2019/11/11/pirate-care-a-syllabus-collective-writing-retreat/ Pirate.Care: A Collective Syllabus Writing Retreat], Rijeka, 25-29 Nov 2019. Report: [https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/piratski-brizno-neposlusno Sirovica] (Kulturpunkt, CR).
 
* [http://www.ravenrow.org/events/paper_struggles/ Paper Struggles / Public Library and the Property Form], exhibition and seminar, Raven Row, London, 9-11 Dec 2019. Organised by [https://postoffice.media/posts/paper-struggles/ Post Office] (Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University). Conceived by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, following the invitation of Kaja Marczewska. [https://www.facebook.com/events/1299312136914706/ FB].
 
* [http://www.ravenrow.org/events/paper_struggles/ Paper Struggles / Public Library and the Property Form], exhibition and seminar, Raven Row, London, 9-11 Dec 2019. Organised by [https://postoffice.media/posts/paper-struggles/ Post Office] (Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University). Conceived by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, following the invitation of Kaja Marczewska. [https://www.facebook.com/events/1299312136914706/ FB].
 
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/reader/ Inverse Reader]'', ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, 2019. A collection of 64 texts, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/reader-on-shadow-artistic-independent-autonomous-digital-libraries/] {{en}}
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/reader/ Inverse Reader]'', ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, 2019ff. A collection of 64 texts, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/reader-on-shadow-artistic-independent-autonomous-digital-libraries/] {{en}}
  
 
===Essays, talks, statements, interviews===
 
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* Alessandro Ludovico, [https://www.eurozine.com/die-dehnbare-bibliothek/ "Die dehnbare Bibliothek. Bücherdigitalisierung und daran anknüpfende Kunstprojekte"], ''Springerin'' 3, Vienna, Aug 2013. {{de}}
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, [https://www.eurozine.com/die-dehnbare-bibliothek/ "Die dehnbare Bibliothek. Bücherdigitalisierung und daran anknüpfende Kunstprojekte"], ''Springerin'' 3, Vienna, Aug 2013. {{de}}
 
** [https://www.eurozine.com/the-liquid-library/ "The Liquid Library"], ''Eurozine'', 26 Aug 2013. {{en}}
 
** [https://www.eurozine.com/the-liquid-library/ "The Liquid Library"], ''Eurozine'', 26 Aug 2013. {{en}}
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* Aideen Doran, [[Media:Doran_Aideen_2014_Free_Libraries_for_Every_Soul_Dreaming_of_the_Online_Library.pdf|"Free Libraries for Every Soul: Dreaming of the Online Library"]], ''The Bear'', Mar 2014. [https://thebear-review.com/#!free-libraries-for-every-soul/c153g] {{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, [[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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* 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}}
 
* Dubravka Sekulić, [https://www.making-futures.com/dubravka-sekulic-on-knowledge-and-stealing/ "On Knowledge and 'Stealing'"], ''Funambulist'' 17, May-June 2018, pp 8-10, [[Media:Sekulic_Dubravka_2018_On_Knowledge_and_Stealing.pdf{{!}}PDF]]. {{en}}
 
* Dubravka Sekulić, [https://www.making-futures.com/dubravka-sekulic-on-knowledge-and-stealing/ "On Knowledge and 'Stealing'"], ''Funambulist'' 17, May-June 2018, pp 8-10, [[Media:Sekulic_Dubravka_2018_On_Knowledge_and_Stealing.pdf{{!}}PDF]]. {{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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* 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; repr. in ''originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation'', eds. Michael Kargl and Franz Thalmair, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/?p=581] [https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/513357] {{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}}
 
* 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}}
 
* 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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* Cornelia Sollfrank, Shusha Niederberger, Kevin Rittberger, Felix Stalder, [https://springerin.at/2019/4/ ''Springerin'' 4: "Netzteil"], Vienna, Oct 2019. {{de}}
 
* Cornelia Sollfrank, Shusha Niederberger, Kevin Rittberger, Felix Stalder, [https://springerin.at/2019/4/ ''Springerin'' 4: "Netzteil"], Vienna, Oct 2019. {{de}}
 
* Cornelia Sollfrank, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9ejoqKYqQ "Learning from Shadow Libraries"], lecture, video, Nov 2019, 70 min. {{en}}
 
* Cornelia Sollfrank, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9ejoqKYqQ "Learning from Shadow Libraries"], lecture, video, Nov 2019, 70 min. {{en}}
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* Kenneth Goldsmith, ''Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb'', Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2020, 256 pp. [http://cup.columbia.edu/book/duchamp-is-my-lawyer/9780231186957]
  
 
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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.
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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

See above

See also

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)
Online
  • Inverse Reader, ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, 2019ff. A collection of 64 texts, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. [11] (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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