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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
 
===Essays, talks, statements, interviews===
 
===Essays, talks, statements, interviews===
* A.S.Ambulanzen, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040322235755/http://textz.com:80/concept/ "napster was only the beginning"], ''textz.com'', Mar 2001.
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* A.S.Ambulanzen, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040322235755/http://textz.com:80/concept/ "napster was only the beginning"], ''textz.com'', Mar 2001. {{en}}
* Aaron Swartz, [http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto"], Jul 2008.
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* Aaron Swartz, [http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto"], Jul 2008. {{en}}
 
** [https://openaccessmanifesto.wordpress.com/guerilla-open-access-manifesto/ translations]
 
** [https://openaccessmanifesto.wordpress.com/guerilla-open-access-manifesto/ translations]
* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/10693558 "The Scan and the Export"], ''Fillip'' 12: "Critical Forms of Publicness", Fall 2010, pp 98-110. [http://fillip.ca/content/the-scan-and-the-export] A short meditation on book scanning and document exporting. Discusses machines, the people who use them, and the contrasting forms of publicity and collectivity emerging from these technical configurations.  
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* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/10693558 "The Scan and the Export"], ''Fillip'' 12: "Critical Forms of Publicness", Fall 2010, pp 98-110. [http://fillip.ca/content/the-scan-and-the-export] A short meditation on book scanning and document exporting. Discusses machines, the people who use them, and the contrasting forms of publicity and collectivity emerging from these technical configurations. {{en}}
* Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/ubuweb-at-15-years-an-overview/ "UbuWeb at 15 Years: An Overview"], ''Poetry Foundation'', 26 Apr 2011.
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* Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/ubuweb-at-15-years-an-overview/ "UbuWeb at 15 Years: An Overview"], ''Poetry Foundation'', 26 Apr 2011. {{en}}
* Matthew Fuller, [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/paradise-too-many-books-interview-sean-dockray "In the Paradise of Too Many Books: An Interview with Sean Dockray"], ''Mute'', London, 4 May 2011.  
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* Matthew Fuller, [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/paradise-too-many-books-interview-sean-dockray "In the Paradise of Too Many Books: An Interview with Sean Dockray"], ''Mute'', London, 4 May 2011. {{en}}
 
* Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://ubu.com/resources/paradise.html "Paradise Now: UbuWeb's World Without Copyright"], 17 Mar 2012. Keynote speech given at Matadero Madrid. {{en}}, {{es}}
 
* Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://ubu.com/resources/paradise.html "Paradise Now: UbuWeb's World Without Copyright"], 17 Mar 2012. Keynote speech given at Matadero Madrid. {{en}}, {{es}}
* Lawrence Liang, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/37/61228/shadow-libraries/ "Shadow Libraries"], ''e-flux'' 37 (Sep 2012). On the library as heterotopia.
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* Lawrence Liang, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/37/61228/shadow-libraries/ "Shadow Libraries"], ''e-flux'' 37 (Sep 2012). On the library as heterotopia. {{en}}
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, [[Media:Marcell_Mars_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|"Marcell Mars, Interview"]], ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, Jan 2013, pp 6-8. {{en}}
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, [[Media:Marcell_Mars_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|"Marcell Mars, Interview"]], ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, Jan 2013, pp 6-8. {{en}}
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, [[Media:Dusan_Barok_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|"Dušan Barok, Interview"]], ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, Jan 2013, pp 10-11. {{en}}
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, [[Media:Dusan_Barok_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|"Dušan Barok, Interview"]], ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, Jan 2013, pp 10-11. {{en}}
* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/10386709 "Openings and Closings"], in ''Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments in Education'', eds. Tim Ivison and Tom Vandeputte, Bedford Press, 2013. On open access and education.
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* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/10386709 "Openings and Closings"], in ''Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments in Education'', eds. Tim Ivison and Tom Vandeputte, Bedford Press, 2013. On open access and education. {{en}}
* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/11966098 "Interface, Access, Loss"], ''Discipline'' magazine lecture, 2013. Revised version of a chapter in ''Undoing Property'', eds. Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak, Sternberg Press, 2013. A critique of the cloud.
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* Sean Dockray, [http://academia.edu/11966098 "Interface, Access, Loss"], ''Discipline'' magazine lecture, 2013. Revised version of a chapter in ''Undoing Property'', eds. Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak, Sternberg Press, 2013. A critique of the cloud. {{en}}
 
* Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://artwarez.org/projects/GWYDH/ ''Giving What You Don't Have''], video interviews with Femke Snelting, Marcell Mars, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eva Weinmayr & Andrea Francke, Sean Dockray, Dmytri Kleiner, 2013. Includes transcripts. {{en}}
 
* Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://artwarez.org/projects/GWYDH/ ''Giving What You Don't Have''], video interviews with Femke Snelting, Marcell Mars, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eva Weinmayr & Andrea Francke, Sean Dockray, Dmytri Kleiner, 2013. Includes transcripts. {{en}}
* Dušan Barok, [[Media:Barok_2014_Techniques_of_Publishing.pdf|"Techniques of Publishing"]], ''Information Between Commodity and Community'' seminar, Prague, May 2014. On the reciprocity between electronic publishing and scholarly research today.
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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, [[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.
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* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/Communing_Texts|"Communing Texts"]], ''Off the Press'' conference, WORM, Rotterdam, May 2014. On the relevance of plain text in publishing; a proposal for discursive entanglement of scholarly references and hyperlinks. {{en}}
* Marcell Mars, Manar Zarroug, Tomislav Medak, [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/27/public-library-an-essay/ "Public Library (An Essay)"], ''Memory of the World'' blog, 27 Oct 2014; [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=76 printed in] ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 75-85. On the idea of public library.
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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}}
 
** [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.
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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}}
* 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.
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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}}
* Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti's interviews with [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2015/04/17/conversation-on-digital-archiving-practices/ Geert Lovink], [http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/a-conversation-on-digital-archiving-practices/ Janneke Adema], [http://misterwarwick.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/conversation-on-digital-archiving-practice-june-2015/ Henry Warwick], 2015.
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* Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti's interviews with [http://networkcultures.org/geert/2015/04/17/conversation-on-digital-archiving-practices/ Geert Lovink], [http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/a-conversation-on-digital-archiving-practices/ Janneke Adema], [http://misterwarwick.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/conversation-on-digital-archiving-practice-june-2015/ Henry Warwick], 2015. {{en}}
* McKenzie Wark, [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=112 "Metadata Punk"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 111-117.
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* McKenzie Wark, [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=112 "Metadata Punk"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 111-117. {{en}}
 
** [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/hr/metapodatkovni-punk/ "Metapodatkovni punk"], trans. Dušanka Profeta, in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 41-47. [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=42] {{cr}}
 
** [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/hr/metapodatkovni-punk/ "Metapodatkovni punk"], trans. Dušanka Profeta, in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 41-47. [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=42] {{cr}}
* Tomislav Medak, [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=122 "The Future After the Library. UbuWeb and Monoskop's Radical Gestures"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 121-137.
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* Tomislav Medak, [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=122 "The Future After the Library. UbuWeb and Monoskop's Radical Gestures"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 121-137. {{en}}
 
** [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/hr/buducnosti-iz-knjiznice/ "Budućnosti iz knjižnice. Radikalne geste UbuWeba i Monoskopa"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 51-66. [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=52] {{cr}}
 
** [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/hr/buducnosti-iz-knjiznice/ "Budućnosti iz knjižnice. Radikalne geste UbuWeba i Monoskopa"], in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 51-66. [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=52] {{cr}}
* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/More_Than_Numbers_Less_Than_Words|"More Than Numbers, Less Than Words"]], ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'' conference, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Jun 2015.
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* Dušan Barok, [[Talks/More_Than_Numbers_Less_Than_Words|"More Than Numbers, Less Than Words"]], ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'' conference, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Jun 2015. {{en}}
 
* Sean Dockray, Lawrence Liang, [http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/sharing-instinct/ "Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries"], ''e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale'', 14 Aug 2015. Response: [http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/superconversations-day-73-mohammad-salemy-responds-to-sean-dockray-lawrence-liang-sharing-instinct-an-annotation-of-the-social-contract-through-shadow-libraries/2244/2 Mohammad Salemy]. {{en}}
 
* Sean Dockray, Lawrence Liang, [http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/sharing-instinct/ "Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries"], ''e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale'', 14 Aug 2015. Response: [http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/superconversations-day-73-mohammad-salemy-responds-to-sean-dockray-lawrence-liang-sharing-instinct-an-annotation-of-the-social-contract-through-shadow-libraries/2244/2 Mohammad Salemy]. {{en}}
 
* [http://custodians.online/ "In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub"], 30 Nov 2015. Open letter. {{en}}  
 
* [http://custodians.online/ "In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub"], 30 Nov 2015. Open letter. {{en}}  
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* Yuri Dergunov (Юрий Дергунов), Alena Lyasheva (Алёна Ляшева), [http://september.media/archives/742 "Borba s kopiraytom ne mozhet ne byt' politicheskoy. Aleksandra Elbakyan"] [Борьба с копирайтом не может не быть политической. Александра Элбакян], ''September'', 22 Nov 2016. Interview with the founder of Sci-Hub. {{ru}}
 
* Yuri Dergunov (Юрий Дергунов), Alena Lyasheva (Алёна Ляшева), [http://september.media/archives/742 "Borba s kopiraytom ne mozhet ne byt' politicheskoy. Aleksandra Elbakyan"] [Борьба с копирайтом не может не быть политической. Александра Элбакян], ''September'', 22 Nov 2016. Interview with the founder of Sci-Hub. {{ru}}
 
** [http://a2larm.cz/2016/11/boj-s-copyrightem-je-nutne-politicky/ "Boj s copyrightem je nutně politický"], trans. Miroslav Tomek, ''A2larm'', 29 Nov 2016. {{cz}}
 
** [http://a2larm.cz/2016/11/boj-s-copyrightem-je-nutne-politicky/ "Boj s copyrightem je nutně politický"], trans. Miroslav Tomek, ''A2larm'', 29 Nov 2016. {{cz}}
* [http://custodians.online/ubu/ "Happy birthday, Ubu.com!"], 30 Nov 2016. [https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1611/msg00101.html Posted on ''Nettime''].
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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}}
  
 
===Journal issues and special sections===
 
===Journal issues and special sections===

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Also electronic libraries, online libraries.

Arts, humanities and social sciences

Libraries

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Conferences, workshops, exhibitions

Interventions and research

Scanning

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)
  • 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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Literature

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.

See also

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