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* [[Aaaaarg|AAAAARG]] (originally AAARG, the acronym of Artists, Architects, and Activists Reading Group) is an online text repository for critical theory, arts, humanities and social sciences. Established c.2004 by [[Sean Dockray]] as part of [[The Public School]], [[San Francisco]]. [http://aaaaarg.fail/ Enter]. [https://twitter.com/aaaarg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/aaaarg.org/ Facebook].
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* [[Aaaaarg|AAAAARG]] (originally AAARG, the acronym of Artists, Architects, and Activists Reading Group) is an online text repository for critical theory, arts, humanities and social sciences. Established c.2004 as part of [[The Public School]], [[San Francisco]]. As of 2024 it is offline.
  
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* [[UbuWeb]] is an online archive of avant-garde art initiated by conceptual artist [[Kenneth Goldsmith]]. Founded in 1996, [[New York]]. [http://ubu.com UbuWeb]. [https://twitter.com/ubuweb Twitter].
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* [[UbuWeb]] is an online archive of avant-garde art initiated by conceptual artist [[Kenneth Goldsmith]]. Founded in 1996, [[New York]].  
 
   
 
   
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* [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]] is an independent online educational resource and research platform for arts, culture and humanities. Monoskop was initiated in 2004 in the context of experimental digital culture in [[Bratislava]] and the wider region. Founding editor: [[Dušan Barok]]. The [[Monoskop Log]] library has branched out in 2009. [https://monoskop.org Monoskop]. [https://monoskop.org/log Monoskop Log].
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* [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]] is an independent online educational resource and research platform for arts, culture and humanities. Monoskop was initiated in 2004 in the context of experimental digital culture around [[Burundi]] in [[Bratislava]]. The [[Monoskop Log]] library has branched out in 2009.  
 
   
 
   
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* [[Memory of the World]] started as a proof of concept of the [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/tag/library/ Public Library] initiative. Established 2012 by [[Marcell Mars]], [[Tomislav Medak]] and [[Dubravka Sekulić]], close to [[mama]], [[Zagreb]]. [https://library.memoryoftheworld.org Memory of the World]. [https://twitter.com/memoryofworld Twitter].[https://www.facebook.com/memoryoftheworld.org/ Facebook].
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* [[Memory of the World]] started as a proof of concept of the [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/tag/library/ Public Library] initiative. Established 2012 by a circle close to [[MaMa]], [[Zagreb]].  
 
   
 
   
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* [[Textz.com]] hosts theory and fiction. Established 2001 by [[Sebastian Lütgert|Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX]], [[Berlin]]. [https://textz.com/ Enter].
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* [[Textz.com]] hosts theory and fiction. Established 2001 in [[Berlin]].  
  
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* [http://epc.buffalo.edu Electronic Poetry Center] hosts poetry books and periodicals; also lists contents from [http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse] and [http://jacket2.org/reissues Jacket 2 Reissues]. Established 1994 by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein at SUNY Buffalo, New York.  
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* [http://epc.buffalo.edu Electronic Poetry Center] hosts poetry books and periodicals; also lists contents from [http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse] and [http://jacket2.org/reissues Jacket 2 Reissues]. Established 1994 at SUNY Buffalo, New York.  
  
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* [[Library Stack]] Database initiative for digital objects and publications. Established 2015 by Erik Wysocan and Benjamin Tiven. [https://librarystack.org Library Stack]. [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LibraryStack?src=hash Twitter].
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* [[Library Stack]] is a database initiative for digital objects and publications founded in 2015.
  
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* [http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse] A free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from recent decades. Eclipse also publishes new works of book-length conceptual unity. Established 2003 by [[Craig Dworkin]].   
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* [http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse] is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from recent decades. Eclipse also publishes new works of book-length conceptual unity. Established 2003.   
  
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* [[Library Genesis]], a host to 3 million books. Established 2008. [http://libgen.rs/ LibGen].
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* [[Library Genesis]] (LibGen) hosts vast collections of nonfiction books, fiction books, and journal articles. Downloads are available without the need for an account, and there are no ads. While anyone can upload books anonymously, new journal article uploads are no longer supported. Est. 2008.  
 
   
 
   
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* [https://libgen.li Library Genesis+] is a fork of LibGen, featuring most of the original content along with an expanded collection of comics and graphic novels but serves pop-up ads.
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* [https://sci-hub.st Sci-Hub] is a well-known source for academic journal articles launched in 2011. Only searching by DOI is supported. Since early 2021, Sci-Hub has not added any new content. [https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub Twitter].
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* [https://z-library.sk/ Z-Library]. Est. 2009. [https://1lib.sk/]
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* [[Anna's Archive]] offers an extensive aggregation of content from other shadow libraries. It’s open source and provides direct downloads without requiring an account (waiting time). Launched 2022 in response to legal actions taken against Z-Library.
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* [http://www.fragen.nu/ Fragen] is a digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. It was created between 2006-2011 and is maintained by Atria, Amsterdam. The content is available under the Creative Commons license.  
 
* [http://www.fragen.nu/ Fragen] is a digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. It was created between 2006-2011 and is maintained by Atria, Amsterdam. The content is available under the Creative Commons license.  
  
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* [[Marxists Internet Archive]] hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers. Established 1990 by Zodiac. Online since 1993. [https://www.marxists.org/ Marxists.org]. [http://www.facebook.com/groups/5636348598/ Facebook].
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* [[Marxists Internet Archive]] hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers. Established 1990. Online since 1993.
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* [http://www.criticalcommons.org 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. Established 2008 by Steve F. Anderson.  
 
  
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* [http://uberty.org/ Uberty] is a resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy. Established 2015. [https://twitter.com/ubertyorg Twitter]. [https://www.facebook.com/uberty.org/ Facebook].
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* [http://www.criticalcommons.org Critical Commons] is 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. Established 2008.  
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* [https://sci-hub.st Sci-Hub] provides mass and public access to 60 million research papers. Established 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan. [https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub Twitter].
 
 
   
 
   
 
* [http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ The Anarchist Library], 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. Established c.2008.  
 
* [http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ The Anarchist Library], 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. Established c.2008.  
  
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* [http://classiques.uqac.ca/ Les Classiques des sciences sociales] hosts Francophone works in social and human sciences, counting some 6,000 publications from 2,000 authors. Established 1993 by Jean-Marie Tremblay. Maintained by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC).  
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* [http://classiques.uqac.ca/ Les Classiques des sciences sociales] hosts Francophone works in social and human sciences, counting some 6,000 publications from 2,000 authors. Established 1993. Maintained by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC).  
  
 
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* [http://www.prdl.org/authors.php Post-Reformation Digital Library]
 
* [http://www.prdl.org/authors.php Post-Reformation Digital Library]
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* [https://open-slum.org/ SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor]
  
 
* "More resources" section on [http://monoskop.org/log/ Monoskop Log]  
 
* "More resources" section on [http://monoskop.org/log/ Monoskop Log]  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20140606142804/http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/#s5 Underground E-publishing] session within ''Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts'' conference, [[WORM]], Rotterdam, 23 May 2014. Video: [http://vimeo.com/97508732] [http://vimeo.com/97508731] [http://vimeo.com/97508729] [http://vimeo.com/97508728].
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20140606142804/http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/#s5 Underground E-publishing] session within ''Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts'' conference, [[WORM]], Rotterdam, 23 May 2014. Video: [http://vimeo.com/97508732] [http://vimeo.com/97508731] [http://vimeo.com/97508729] [http://vimeo.com/97508728].
  
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* [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/ Public Library: Rethinking the Infrastructures of Knowledge Production] conference and exhibition, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) & Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 30 Oct-23 Nov 2014. [[Media:Public Library WKV Stuttgart 2014.pdf{{!}}Program]]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_nWBldOl0&list=PLySosWMxhP06i8tVT8pntPo2ejMdKXate Video].
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* [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/ Public Library: Rethinking the Infrastructures of Knowledge Production] conference and exhibition, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) & Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 30 Oct-23 Nov 2014. [[Media:Public Library WKV Stuttgart 2014.pdf{{!}}Program]]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_nWBldOl0&list=PLySosWMxhP06i8tVT8pntPo2ejMdKXate Video]. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/albums/72157649173019802/ Photos].
  
 
* [https://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/ Javna knjižnica / Public Library] conference and exhibition, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, May-Jun 2015. [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/04/27/zagreb_2015/] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/izlozba-javna-knjiznica.html] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/javna-knjiznica.html]
 
* [https://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/ Javna knjižnica / Public Library] conference and exhibition, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, May-Jun 2015. [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/04/27/zagreb_2015/] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/izlozba-javna-knjiznica.html] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/javna-knjiznica.html]
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* [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 / Public Library/Javna knjižnica: digitalni arhivi, arhitektura i aktivizam], exhibition, workshop and discussion, Omladinski centar CK13 & Galerija SULUV, Novi Sad, 4-12 May 2017. [[Media:Public_Library_SULUV 2017.pdf{{!}}Catalogue PDF]].
 
* [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 / Public Library/Javna knjižnica: digitalni arhivi, arhitektura i aktivizam], exhibition, workshop and discussion, Omladinski centar CK13 & Galerija SULUV, Novi Sad, 4-12 May 2017. [[Media:Public_Library_SULUV 2017.pdf{{!}}Catalogue PDF]].
  
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* [https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/the-house-that-heals-the-soul The House That Heals the Soul], exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, 22 Jul-3 Sep 2017. Curators: Viviana Checchia, Ainslie Roddick, Nick Thurston. [https://www.nickthurston.info/activities/the-house-that-heals-the-soul/]
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* [https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/the-house-that-heals-the-soul The House That Heals the Soul], exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, 22 Jul-3 Sep 2017. Curators: Viviana Checchia, Ainslie Roddick, [[Nick Thurston]]. [https://www.nickthurston.info/activities/the-house-that-heals-the-soul/]
  
 
* [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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* [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]].
 
* [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]].
  
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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law_(2018) Interfacing the Law (2018)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2018. Seminar in experimental publishing, convened by Femke Snelting.
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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law_(2018) Interfacing the Law (2018)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2018. Seminar in experimental publishing, convened by [[Femke Snelting]].
  
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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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* [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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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law Interfacing the Law (2019)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2019. Seminar in experimental publishing, convened by Femke Snelting.
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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law Interfacing the Law (2019)], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2019. Seminar in experimental publishing, convened by [[Femke Snelting]].
  
 
* [https://pirate.care/blog/2019/05/19/pirate-care-2-cpc-conference/ 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.youtube.com/watch?v=c07WIOwzHQM&list=PLX-N8krB2JMcVktrreeqLJAKTYqNoiSnO Video].
 
* [https://pirate.care/blog/2019/05/19/pirate-care-2-cpc-conference/ 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.youtube.com/watch?v=c07WIOwzHQM&list=PLX-N8krB2JMcVktrreeqLJAKTYqNoiSnO Video].
  
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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://monoskop.org/log/?p=22321 Catalogue]. [[Media:Open_Scores_2019_exhibition_guide.pdf{{!}}Exh. guide]]. [https://www.facebook.com/events/582475215490769/ 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://monoskop.org/log/?p=22321 Catalogue]. [[Media:Open_Scores_2019_exhibition_guide.pdf{{!}}Exh. guide]]. [https://www.facebook.com/events/582475215490769/ FB].
  
 
* [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).
 
* [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).
  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20200130220151/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]. [https://twitter.com/P_O_R_G/status/1204127088019693569] [https://twitter.com/tmedak/status/1204002777548103682] [https://twitter.com/tmedak/status/1204737419356102656]  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20200130220151/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.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/albums/72157712390383938 Photos]. [https://www.facebook.com/events/1299312136914706/ FB event]. [https://twitter.com/P_O_R_G/status/1204127088019693569] [https://twitter.com/tmedak/status/1204002777548103682] [https://twitter.com/tmedak/status/1204737419356102656]  
  
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* [http://drugo-more.hr/en/pirate-care/ Pirate Care: Learning From Disobedience], exhibition, Exportdrvo, Delta, Rijeka, 8-31 Oct 2020. Organised by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak. [https://www.facebook.com/events/447970509509939/ FB].
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* [http://drugo-more.hr/en/pirate-care/ Pirate Care: Learning From Disobedience], exhibition, Exportdrvo, Delta, Rijeka, 8-31 Oct 2020. Organised by [[Valeria Graziano]], Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak. [https://www.facebook.com/events/447970509509939/ FB].
  
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* [https://www.whw.hr/en/programme/paper-struggles-public-library/ Paper Struggles; Public Library / Borbe s papirom; Javna knjižnica], exhibition, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, 16-24 Oct 2020. Organised by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.
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* [https://www.whw.hr/en/programme/paper-struggles-public-library/ Paper Struggles; Public Library / Borbe s papirom; Javna knjižnica], exhibition, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, 16-24 Oct 2020. Organised by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/albums/72157712390383938/with/50514725877 Photos].
  
 
* [https://constantvzw.org/site/-Unbound-Libraries,224-.html Unbound Libraries], worksession, Brussels, Rotterdam, Utrecht, North-England and online, 31 May-5 Jun 2020. Organised by [[Constant]]. [https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/mar-ztm-epn Audio and video]. [https://constantvzw.org/wefts/unboundlibraries.en.html Documentation]. [https://constantvzw.org/site/Unbound-Libraries-Worksession.html]
 
* [https://constantvzw.org/site/-Unbound-Libraries,224-.html Unbound Libraries], worksession, Brussels, Rotterdam, Utrecht, North-England and online, 31 May-5 Jun 2020. Organised by [[Constant]]. [https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/mar-ztm-epn Audio and video]. [https://constantvzw.org/wefts/unboundlibraries.en.html Documentation]. [https://constantvzw.org/site/Unbound-Libraries-Worksession.html]
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* [https://syllabus.radicalcatalogue.net/syllabus.html Teaching the Radical Catalogue: A Syllabus 2021–22], Kunstbibliothek and Werkstoffarchiv Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, 2021-2022. Instructors: Eva Weinmayr and Lucie Kolb. Part of the Reading the Library exhibition. [https://www.fabrikzeitung.ch/a-syllabus-2021-22-course-resources/ Course resources].
 
* [https://syllabus.radicalcatalogue.net/syllabus.html Teaching the Radical Catalogue: A Syllabus 2021–22], Kunstbibliothek and Werkstoffarchiv Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, 2021-2022. Instructors: Eva Weinmayr and Lucie Kolb. Part of the Reading the Library exhibition. [https://www.fabrikzeitung.ch/a-syllabus-2021-22-course-resources/ Course resources].
  
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* [https://www.lesnouveauxhabitsducolportage.be/#les-formes-de-la-piraterie Les formes de la piraterie], La Cambre/erg, Brussels, 6-10 Nov 2023.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20240416142138/https://www.lesnouveauxhabitsducolportage.be/#les-formes-de-la-piraterie Les formes de la piraterie], La Cambre/erg, Brussels, 6-10 Nov 2023. Organised in the context of ''Les nouveaux habits du colportage'' carried out by Alexia de Visscher, Léonard Mabille and Alice Néron.
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* [https://unarchive.mur.at/ Unarchive], online exhibition, mur.at, Graz, 2023. Artists: Ricardo Ginès, Steffen Köhn, Nicole Kouts, Wouter Moraal, Martin Nadal, Miguel Rangil, Tabita Rezaire, Nestor Siré, Huda Takriti, Pim Zwier, and the Schuberttheater.
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* [https://www.lesnouveauxhabitsducolportage.be/ Prototypes for a pirate colportage], erg (school of graphic research), Brussels, 17-19 Jan 2025. Organised in the context of ''Les nouveaux habits du colportage'' carried out by Alexia de Visscher, Léonard Mabille and Alice Néron.
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* [http://fillip.ca/content/browsing-the-aaaarg-library AAAARG Library], a site-specific installation, in conjunction with the the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, Fall 2010.
 
* [http://fillip.ca/content/browsing-the-aaaarg-library AAAARG Library], a site-specific installation, in conjunction with the the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, Fall 2010.
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07WIOwzHQM&list=PLX-N8krB2JMcVktrreeqLJAKTYqNoiSnO Pirate Care], Coventry, 19-20 Jun 2019. Video recordings of [https://pirate.care/blog/2019/05/19/pirate-care-2-cpc-conference/ talks] held at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University.
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07WIOwzHQM&list=PLX-N8krB2JMcVktrreeqLJAKTYqNoiSnO Pirate Care], Coventry, 19-20 Jun 2019. Video recordings of [https://pirate.care/blog/2019/05/19/pirate-care-2-cpc-conference/ talks] held at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University.
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* [https://mi2.hr/en/2024/05/ubu50-50-ubus-a-virtual-conference/ Ubu@50 — 50 Ubus: A Virtual Conference], Moisé Palace, Cres, Croatia, 6-10 April 2024. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybatScun66s&list=PL74fPVo4YXi8q85ilcG3wzJavMU0-e_MC Videos].
  
 
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* ''[https://issue.xpub.nl/09/ The Library Is Open]'', Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 09), Jun 2019. [[Media:The_Library_Is_Open_2019.pdf{{!}}Publication PDF]]. {{en}}
 
* ''[https://issue.xpub.nl/09/ The Library Is Open]'', Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 09), Jun 2019. [[Media:The_Library_Is_Open_2019.pdf{{!}}Publication PDF]]. {{en}}
  
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/reader/ Inverse Reader]'', ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Sep 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}}
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/reader/index.php Inverse Reader]'', ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Sep 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}}
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* ''[https://pages.sandpoints.org/sandpoints/ubu5050ubus-8daa49c3/mirror/ubu/ Ubu@50 – 50 Ubus: Everything Is Temporary]'', eds. Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, May 2024. Collectively written hyperlinked publication. {{en}}
  
 
===Essays, talks, statements, conversations, interviews===
 
===Essays, talks, statements, conversations, interviews===
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* [[Shannon Mattern]], [https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure "Library as Infrastructure"], ''Places'', 9 Jun 2014. {{en}}
 
* [[Shannon Mattern]], [https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure "Library as Infrastructure"], ''Places'', 9 Jun 2014. {{en}}
  
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* [[Marcell Mars]], Manar Zarroug, [[Tomislav Medak]], [https://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; [https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/public-library reposted on] ''Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Open-Media-Studies-Blog'', 17 Dec 2018. On the idea of public library. {{en}}
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* [[Marcell Mars]], [https://monoskop.org/images/9/94/Really_Useful_Knowledge_2014.pdf#page=163 "Public Library"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21761 Really Useful Knowledge]'', Barcelona: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MACBA), 2014, pp 163-168; repr. as [[Marcell Mars]], Manar Zarroug, [[Tomislav Medak]], [https://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 repr. in] ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 75-85; [https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/public-library reposted 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}}
  
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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}}
 
* 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}}
  
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* [[Sean Dockray]], Benjamin Forster, Public Office, [https://samiz-dat.github.io/hyperreadings/ "README.md"], Hyperreadings, 15 Feb 2018. {{en}}
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* [[Sean Dockray]], Benjamin Forster, [https://samiz-dat.github.io/hyperreadings/ "README.md"], ''Hyperreadings'', 15 Feb 2018; [https://monoskop.org/images/3/3f/Blamey_David_Haylock_Brad_eds_Distributed_2018.pdf#page=202 repr. in]  ''Distributed'', eds. David Blamey and Brad Haylock, London: Open Editions, 2018, pp 198-213. {{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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* [[Olga Goriunova]], [[Media:Goriunova Olga 2021 Uploading our Libraries The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons.pdf{{!}}"Uploading our Libraries: The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons"]], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22865 Aesthetics of the Commons]'', eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 41-61. {{en}}
 
* [[Olga Goriunova]], [[Media:Goriunova Olga 2021 Uploading our Libraries The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons.pdf{{!}}"Uploading our Libraries: The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons"]], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22865 Aesthetics of the Commons]'', eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 41-61. {{en}}
  
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* Judith Siegmund , [https://monoskop.org/images/7/77/Sollfrank_Stalder_Niederberger_eds_Aesthetics_of_the_Commons_2021.pdf#page=81 "Which “Aesthetics of the Commons”?"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22865 Aesthetics of the Commons]'', eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 81-97. {{en}}
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* Judith Siegmund, [https://monoskop.org/images/7/77/Sollfrank_Stalder_Niederberger_eds_Aesthetics_of_the_Commons_2021.pdf#page=81 "Which “Aesthetics of the Commons”?"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22865 Aesthetics of the Commons]'', eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 81-97. {{en}}
  
 
* [[H C-(M)]], [https://netzpolitik.org/2021/academic-research-sci-hubs-fight-against-private-ownership-of-knowledge/ "Sci-Hub’s Fight Against Private Ownership of Knowledge"], ''Netzpolitik'', Jan 2021; exp. as [https://www.neroeditions.com/cognition-communism-and-theft/ "Cognition, Communism, and Theft: A conversation with Sci-Hub’s founder Alexandra Elbakyan"], ''Nero'', Mar 2021; reposted as [https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/04/20/alexandra-elbakyan/ "Celebrating a Decade of Knowledge. A conversation with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan"], Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Apr 2021. [https://www.tecno-grafias.com/nine-questions-for-alexandra-elbakyan.html] [https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/10/01/hoca-cove-mbede-nine-question-for-alexandra-elbakyan/] {{en}}  
 
* [[H C-(M)]], [https://netzpolitik.org/2021/academic-research-sci-hubs-fight-against-private-ownership-of-knowledge/ "Sci-Hub’s Fight Against Private Ownership of Knowledge"], ''Netzpolitik'', Jan 2021; exp. as [https://www.neroeditions.com/cognition-communism-and-theft/ "Cognition, Communism, and Theft: A conversation with Sci-Hub’s founder Alexandra Elbakyan"], ''Nero'', Mar 2021; reposted as [https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/04/20/alexandra-elbakyan/ "Celebrating a Decade of Knowledge. A conversation with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan"], Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Apr 2021. [https://www.tecno-grafias.com/nine-questions-for-alexandra-elbakyan.html] [https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/10/01/hoca-cove-mbede-nine-question-for-alexandra-elbakyan/] {{en}}  
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* Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, [[Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei]], [https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/veritas-and-copyright-the-public-library-in-peril/ "Veritas and Copyright: The Public Library in Peril"], ''punctum books'', Sep 2022. {{en}}
 
* Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, [[Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei]], [https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/veritas-and-copyright-the-public-library-in-peril/ "Veritas and Copyright: The Public Library in Peril"], ''punctum books'', Sep 2022. {{en}}
  
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* Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, [https://monoskop.org/images/2/28/Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf#page=38 "Public Library and the Return of the Repressed Memory of the World"], in ''[[Media:Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf{{!}}Stories and Threads: Perspectives on Art Archives]]'', eds. Sara Buraya Boned, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, and Sezin Romi, L'Internationale, 2022, pp 74-89. [https://www.internationaleonline.org/library/#stories_and_threads_perspectives_on_art_archives] {{en}}
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* [[Tomislav Medak]], [[Marcell Mars]], [https://monoskop.org/images/2/28/Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf#page=38 "Public Library and the Return of the Repressed Memory of the World"], in ''[[Media:Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf{{!}}Stories and Threads: Perspectives on Art Archives]]'', eds. Sara Buraya Boned, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, and Sezin Romi, L'Internationale, 2022, pp 74-89. [https://www.internationaleonline.org/library/#stories_and_threads_perspectives_on_art_archives] {{en}}
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* [[Nick Thurston]], [https://pages.sandpoints.org/sandpoints/ubu5050ubus-8daa49c3/reflection/insolidarityandfromcuriosity/ "In Solidarity and From Curiosity"], in ''Ubu@50 – 50 Ubus: Everything Is Temporary'', eds. Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, May 2024. Conversation with Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Dušan Barok. {{en}}
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* [[Valeria Graziano]], [[Marcell Mars]], [[Tomislav Medak]], ''[[Media:Graziano Mars Medak Pirate Care Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity 2025.epub|Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity]]'', Pluto Press (Vagabonds), Jan 2025. [https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349800/pirate-care/ Publisher], [https://vagabonds.xyz/]. {{en}}
  
 
===Journal issues and special sections===
 
===Journal issues and special sections===
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===Academic research and writing===
 
===Academic research and writing===
 
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* [[Brewster Kahle]], [https://brewster.kahle.org/2024/03/23/ethics-of-digital-librarianship-1992/ "Ethics Of Digital Librarianship"], Feb 1992.
  
 
* 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}}
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** [[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://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=31b65fcfa00480594c75bc294e227de7 PDF].
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** [[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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=31b65fcfa00480594c75bc294e227de7 PDF].
  
 
* 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}}
 
* 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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* [[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://libgen.rs/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]
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* Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, Martha Woodmansee (eds.), ''[http://libgen.is/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.
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* 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/#/book/e711d8db-8d12-4404-ae1d-d6babfcfa9de 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]
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* [[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.
 
  
 
* [[Dennis Tenen]], Maxwell Foxman, [http://computationalculture.net/article/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation "Book Piracy as Peer Preservation"], ''Computational Culture'' 5, 9 Nov 2014.
 
* [[Dennis Tenen]], Maxwell Foxman, [http://computationalculture.net/article/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation "Book Piracy as Peer Preservation"], ''Computational Culture'' 5, 9 Nov 2014.
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* Pelle Snickars, [http://pellesnickars.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/snickars_publikationshack.pdf "Publikationshack"], in ''Universitetet som medium'', eds. Matts Lindström and Adam Wickberg Månsson, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2015, pp 9-46. {{sw}}
 
* Pelle Snickars, [http://pellesnickars.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/snickars_publikationshack.pdf "Publikationshack"], in ''Universitetet som medium'', eds. Matts Lindström and Adam Wickberg Månsson, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2015, pp 9-46. {{sw}}
  
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* Daniel Snelson, ''[[Media:Snelson Daniel Variable Format Media Poetics and the Little Database 2015.pdf{{!}}Variable Format: Media Poetics and the Little Database]]'', University of Pennsylvania, 2015, 209 pp. PhD dissertation. Focuses on Textz.com, Eclipse, PennSound, and UbuWeb. [https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3722240/]
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* [[Daniel Snelson]], ''[[Media:Snelson Daniel Variable Format Media Poetics and the Little Database 2015.pdf{{!}}Variable Format: Media Poetics and the Little Database]]'', University of Pennsylvania, 2015, 209 pp. PhD thesis. Focuses on Textz.com, Eclipse, PennSound, and UbuWeb. [https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3722240/]
  
 
* Guillaume Cabanac, [http://sci-hub.st/10.1002/asi.23445 "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A Study of a Text-Sharing Platform Driven by Biblioleaks and Crowdsourcing"], ''Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology'' 67:4, Apr 2016, pp 874-884.
 
* Guillaume Cabanac, [http://sci-hub.st/10.1002/asi.23445 "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A Study of a Text-Sharing Platform Driven by Biblioleaks and Crowdsourcing"], ''Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology'' 67:4, Apr 2016, pp 874-884.
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* Joe Karaganis (ed.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20075 Shadow Libraries: Access to Educational Materials in Global Higher Education]'', MIT Press, 2018, 313 pp. Contributors: Balázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski.
 
* Joe Karaganis (ed.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20075 Shadow Libraries: Access to Educational Materials in Global Higher Education]'', MIT Press, 2018, 313 pp. Contributors: Balázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski.
  
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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.
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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.
  
 
* 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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* Georgie Newson, [https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/december/in-the-shadow-library "In the Shadow Library"], ''London Review of Books'', 14 Dec 2022.
 
* Georgie Newson, [https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/december/in-the-shadow-library "In the Shadow Library"], ''London Review of Books'', 14 Dec 2022.
  
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* Sandra Fauconnier, [[Media:Fauconnier Sandra 2023 Challenges in the Creation Perception and Distribution of Documentation.pdf{{!}}"Challenges in the Creation, Perception and Distribution of Documentation"]], in ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D9AB0B6EFC64E10CE006B9CD8BBCE9F2 Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices]'', eds. Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi, Routledge, Jan 2023, pp 75-86.  
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* [[Sandra Fauconnier]], [[Media:Fauconnier Sandra 2023 Challenges in the Creation Perception and Distribution of Documentation.pdf{{!}}"Challenges in the Creation, Perception and Distribution of Documentation"]], in ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D9AB0B6EFC64E10CE006B9CD8BBCE9F2 Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices]'', eds. Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi, Routledge, Jan 2023, pp 75-86.
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* [[Janneke Adema]], ''[http://www.openreflections.org/wiki/ Knowledge Production Beyond the Book? Performing the Scholarly Monograph in Contemporary Digital Culture]'', 2024. PhD thesis.
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* [[Daniel Scott Snelson]], ''[https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-little-database The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats]'', University of Minnesota Press, Jun 2025, 240 pp. Focuses on Textz, Eclipse, UbuWeb, and the Electronic Poetry Center. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918828/the-little-database/ Publisher].
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* Zakayo Kjellström, ''[https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1953321&dswid=-5131 Black Open Access: Shadow Libraries and Text Piracy]'', Umeå: Umeå University, 2025. PhD thesis, with papers.
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** [https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-09-2021-0174 "Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library"], ''Journal of Documentation'', Dec 2022.
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** [https://doi.org/10.1108/oir-02-2024-0088 "Decentralized digital preservation: the LOCKSS initiative and shadow libraries"], ''Online Information Review'', Mar 2025.
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** [https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2025.2482459 "Patterns of piracy: Sci-Hub and Sweden 2011–2018"], ''Internet Histories'', Mar 2025.
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* Simon Rowberry, [https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251358020 "The value of books in the age of generative AI training data"], ''Convergence'', Jul 2025.
  
 
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* [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://libgen.rs/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
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* [[Library Genesis]] (LibGen), est. March 2008, has multiple interfaces, mirrors and versions [http://libgen.is/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
  
 
* [http://sci-hub.st Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan]. [https://sci-hub.now.sh/]
 
* [http://sci-hub.st Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan]. [https://sci-hub.now.sh/]

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Arts, humanities and social sciences[edit]

Libraries[edit]

  • AAAAARG (originally AAARG, the acronym of Artists, Architects, and Activists Reading Group) is an online text repository for critical theory, arts, humanities and social sciences. Established c.2004 as part of The Public School, San Francisco. As of 2024 it is offline.
  • Monoskop is an independent online educational resource and research platform for arts, culture and humanities. Monoskop was initiated in 2004 in the context of experimental digital culture around Burundi in Bratislava. The Monoskop Log library has branched out in 2009.
  • Library Stack is a database initiative for digital objects and publications founded in 2015.
  • Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from recent decades. Eclipse also publishes new works of book-length conceptual unity. Established 2003.
  • Library Genesis (LibGen) hosts vast collections of nonfiction books, fiction books, and journal articles. Downloads are available without the need for an account, and there are no ads. While anyone can upload books anonymously, new journal article uploads are no longer supported. Est. 2008.
  • Library Genesis+ is a fork of LibGen, featuring most of the original content along with an expanded collection of comics and graphic novels but serves pop-up ads.
  • Sci-Hub is a well-known source for academic journal articles launched in 2011. Only searching by DOI is supported. Since early 2021, Sci-Hub has not added any new content. Twitter.
  • Anna's Archive offers an extensive aggregation of content from other shadow libraries. It’s open source and provides direct downloads without requiring an account (waiting time). Launched 2022 in response to legal actions taken against Z-Library.
  • Fragen is a digital library of key texts of second wave of feminism in Europe. It was created between 2006-2011 and is maintained by Atria, Amsterdam. The content is available under the Creative Commons license.
  • Marxists Internet Archive hosts the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers. Established 1990. Online since 1993.
  • Critical Commons is 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. Established 2008.
  • 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. Established c.2008.
  • Les Classiques des sciences sociales hosts Francophone works in social and human sciences, counting some 6,000 publications from 2,000 authors. Established 1993. Maintained by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC).
See also

Conferences, symposia, exhibitions, workshops, seminars, discussions

  • Interfacing the Law, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Spring 2017. Seminar in experimental publishing, convened by Femke Snelting.
  • 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.
  • Pirate Care, conference, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, 19-20 Jun 2019. CfP. FB. Video.
  • Les formes de la piraterie, La Cambre/erg, Brussels, 6-10 Nov 2023. Organised in the context of Les nouveaux habits du colportage carried out by Alexia de Visscher, Léonard Mabille and Alice Néron.
  • Unarchive, online exhibition, mur.at, Graz, 2023. Artists: Ricardo Ginès, Steffen Köhn, Nicole Kouts, Wouter Moraal, Martin Nadal, Miguel Rangil, Tabita Rezaire, Nestor Siré, Huda Takriti, Pim Zwier, and the Schuberttheater.
  • Prototypes for a pirate colportage, erg (school of graphic research), Brussels, 17-19 Jan 2025. Organised in the context of Les nouveaux habits du colportage carried out by Alexia de Visscher, Léonard Mabille and Alice Néron.

Interventions, research, projects

Bibliotecha
  • AAAARG Library, a site-specific installation, in conjunction with the the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, Fall 2010.
  • Worm Pirate Bay, a physical library at WORM, Rotterdam, hosting an eclectic collection of avant-garde media, from zines and books to CDs and DVDs. Visitors can burn DVDs, digitise VHS tapes, and copy books and magazines using photocopier.
  • Creating Commons, research project exploring interstitial practices which open the space between art and commons, Jan 2017-Jan 2020. Conducted by Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank and Shusha Niederberger. Based at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts. In cooperation with HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel).
  • Pirate Care, a syllabus, a research process - primarily based in the transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”.

Scanning

Publications, resources

Collections

Video
  • Pirate Care, Coventry, 19-20 Jun 2019. Video recordings of talks held at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University.
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)
  • 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)
  • Aesthetics of the Commons, eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, 275 pp. (English)
Online
  • Interfacing the Law, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 3), Jun 2017. (English)
  • Interfacing the Law, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 06), Jun 2018. (English)
  • Inverse Reader, ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Sep 2019ff. A collection of 64 texts, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. [18] (English)

Essays, talks, statements, conversations, interviews

  • Sean Dockray, "The Scan and the Export", Fillip 12: "Critical Forms of Publicness", Fall 2010, pp 98-110. [19] 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. (English)
  • Sean Dockray, "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. (English)
  • Sean Dockray, "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. (English)
  • Dušan Barok, "Techniques of Publishing", Information Between Commodity and Community seminar, Prague, May 2014. On the reciprocity between electronic publishing and scholarly research today. (English)
  • Dušan Barok, "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. (English)
  • Dušan Barok, "Poetics of Research", Public Library conference, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1 Nov 2014. On the cultural algorithms historically conditioned by scholarly research and publishing. (English)
  • McKenzie Wark, "Metadata Punk", in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 111-117. (English)
    • "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. (Croatian)
  • Marcell Mars, "Memory of the World", IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz, 12 May 2016, 40 min. Video; invited talk as part of the annual 'Graz Architecture Lectures'. [23] (English)
  • Matthew Fuller, "The Indexalist", in Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek, Brussels: Constant, Sep 2016, pp 84-87, PDF. (English)
    • "De Indexalist", in Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek, Brussels: Constant, Sep 2016, pp 88-91, PDF. (Dutch)
  • Clemens Apprich, "Ora et labora (et lege). Zur Politik postdigitaler Handlungsfelder", Kunstforum 242: "Postdigital 1", Sep-Oct 2016. [24] (German)
  • Sean Dockray, Benjamin Forster, "README.md", Hyperreadings, 15 Feb 2018; repr. in Distributed, eds. David Blamey and Brad Haylock, London: Open Editions, 2018, pp 198-213. (English)
  • Dušan Barok, "Shadow Libraries", Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens symposium, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Mar 2018. On access to culture and knowledge. [26] (English)
  • Alexandra Elbakyan (Александра элбакян), Avtobiografiya versiya 1.1 [Автобиография версия 1.1], 22 May 2020, 92 pp. Autobiographical essay by the founder of Sci-Hub. [31] (Russian)
  • Nick Thurston, "In Solidarity and From Curiosity", in Ubu@50 – 50 Ubus: Everything Is Temporary, eds. Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, May 2024. Conversation with Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Dušan Barok. (English)

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.
  • 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. [42]
  • Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Matthew Battles, The Library Beyond the Book, Harvard University Press, 2014, 176 pp. [43] [44]
  • Jonas Andersson Schwarz, "Honorability and the Pirate Ethic", ch 4 in A Reader in International Media Piracy: Pirate Essays, ed. Tilman Baumgärtel, Amsterdam University Press, 2015, pp 81-110.
  • Davide Giorgetta, Valerio Nicoletti, Amateur: Non-Institutional Practices Between Digital Archiving and Publishing, ISIA Urbino, 2015. Master's thesis. Features interviews with Janneke Adema, Dušan Barok, Balázs Bodó, Josephine Bosma, Annet Dekker, Sean Dockray, Kenneth Goldsmith, Geert Lovink, Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak, Domenico Quaranta, Gino Roncaglia, Femke Snelting, Henry Warwick, and Eva Weinmayr. [45] (Italian),(English)
  • Pelle Snickars, "Publikationshack", in Universitetet som medium, eds. Matts Lindström and Adam Wickberg Månsson, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2015, pp 9-46. (Swedish)

Further reading

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

General interest[edit]

Libraries[edit]

Autonomous/independent libraries[edit]

  • Lib.Ru, RuNet's early web library, est. 1994 by Maksim Moshkov.
  • Library.nu, formerly Ebooksclub (2004-2007) and Gigapedia (2007-2010), closed down in Feb 2012.
  • Open Library, an e-book lending library, est. 2006 by the Internet Archive.
See also

Public domain, Creative Commons and Open Access texts[edit]

  • 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)
  • 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[edit]

  • Czech Republic, NDK national library, CAS academy of sciences, DLIB CAS academic journals, UCL CAS literary periodicals
  • Denmark, KB national library, DEFF electronic research library
  • Norway, NB
  • Poland, Polona national library, FBC digital libraries federation
  • Russia, RSL state library, NLR national library, GLIB state historical library, FEB literature and folklore
  • Sweden, KB national library, SVAR national archives
  • United Kingdom, BL

Commercial libraries hosting academic journals[edit]

  • JStor, est. 1995 by William G. Bowen (Princeton U); now owned by ITHAKA; 2600 journals.
  • Project Muse, est. 1995, operated by Johns Hopkins University Press; focus on digital humanities and social science; 674 journals.
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See also[edit]

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


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