Digital libraries

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Marxists Internet Archive
Est. 1990 by Zodiac. Online since 1993. Hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers.
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Electronic Poetry Center
Est. 1994 by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein at SUNY Buffalo. Hosts poetry books and periodicals; also lists contents from Eclipse and Jacket 2 Reissues.
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Aaaaarg
Est. c2004 by Sean Dockray as part of the Public School. Originally focused on critical theory, gradually expanded to the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Fragen
Created 2006-2011. Digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. CC BY-NC-ND. Maintained by Atria, Amsterdam.
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Les Classiques des sciences sociales
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).
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UbuWeb
Est. 1996 by Kenneth Goldsmith as a resource for visual and sound poetry, soon expanded to the historical and contemporary avant-garde.
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Monoskop
Est. 2004 by Dušan Barok as a media art research initiative. Gradually expanded to avant-garde media studies. Monoskop Log library has branched out in 2009.
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Memory of the World
Est. 2012 by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak as a proof of concept of the Public Library initiative.
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Est. 1994 by Michael Jensen and Wayne Marr. The core of the collection are preprint versions of academic papers in PDF submitted by authors. Now run by Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. (SSEP).
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Textz.com
Est. 2001 by Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX. Hosted theory and fiction in plain text. Enter (archived version).

The Anarchist Library
Est. c2008 as 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.
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Library Stack
Est. 2015 by Erik Wysocan and Benjamin Tiven. Database initiative for digital objects and publications.
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Uberty
Est. 2015 as a resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy.
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Arts, humanities and social sciences

Libraries

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Conferences, workshops, exhibitions

Interventions and research

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