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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].
 
* [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].
 
   
 
   
* [https://sci-hub.se Sci-Hub] provides mass and public access to 60 million research papers. Established 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan. [https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub Twitter].
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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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* Miljenka Buljević, [https://booksa.hr/kolumne/intervju/svijet-takozvanog-drustva-znanja-svijet-je-nejednakosti "'Svijet takozvanog društva znanja svijet je nejednakosti'"], ''Booksa.hr'', Zagreb, 13 Apr 2020. {{cr}}
 
* Miljenka Buljević, [https://booksa.hr/kolumne/intervju/svijet-takozvanog-drustva-znanja-svijet-je-nejednakosti "'Svijet takozvanog društva znanja svijet je nejednakosti'"], ''Booksa.hr'', Zagreb, 13 Apr 2020. {{cr}}
 
* Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, [https://www.artforum.com/slant/valeria-graziano-marcell-mars-and-tomlsav-medak-on-the-care-crisis-83037 "Pirate Care"], ''Artforum.com'', 11 May 2020.
 
* Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, [https://www.artforum.com/slant/valeria-graziano-marcell-mars-and-tomlsav-medak-on-the-care-crisis-83037 "Pirate Care"], ''Artforum.com'', 11 May 2020.
* Alexandra Elbakyan (Александра элбакян), ''[[Media:Elbakyan Alexandra Avtobiografiya versiya 1.1 2020.pdf{{!}}Avtobiografiya versiya 1.1]]'' [Автобиография версия 1.1], 22 May 2020, 92 pp. Autobiographical essay by the founder of Sci-Hub. [https://sci-hub.se/alexandra] {{ru}}
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* Alexandra Elbakyan (Александра элбакян), ''[[Media:Elbakyan Alexandra Avtobiografiya versiya 1.1 2020.pdf{{!}}Avtobiografiya versiya 1.1]]'' [Автобиография версия 1.1], 22 May 2020, 92 pp. Autobiographical essay by the founder of Sci-Hub. [https://sci-hub.st/alexandra] {{ru}}
 
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22321 Open Scores: How to Program the Commons]'', Creating Commons (Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder), Jun 2020, [40] pp. Exh. catalogue.
 
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22321 Open Scores: How to Program the Commons]'', Creating Commons (Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder), Jun 2020, [40] pp. Exh. catalogue.
 
* Kenneth Goldsmith, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22330 Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb]'', New York: Columbia University Press, Jul 2020, x+318 pp. {{en}}
 
* Kenneth Goldsmith, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22330 Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb]'', New York: Columbia University Press, Jul 2020, x+318 pp. {{en}}
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* Christian Vandendorpe, ''Du papyrus à l'hypertexte: essai sur les mutations du texte et de la lecture'', Montréal: Boréal, 1999, 271 pp; Paris: Découverte, 1999, 271 pp. {{fr}}
 
* 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}}
** ''[[Media:Vandendorpe Christian From Papyrus to Hypertext Toward the Universal Digital Library 1999.pdf{{!}}From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library]]'', trans. Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 191 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5d75db679ff37c2d76622bd8 ARG]. Reviews: [http://sci-hub.se/10.1162/leon.2010.43.2.186b Anker] (Leonardo), [http://sci-hub.se/10.1002/asi.21113 Warwick] (J Am Soc Inf Sci Tech), [http://sci-hub.se/10.1080/10714421.2010.505163 Stinson] (Comm Rev), [https://www.academia.edu/8571026/ Collins] (Journ Mass Comm Q). [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/34shn8cs9780252034350.html]
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** ''[[Media:Vandendorpe Christian From Papyrus to Hypertext Toward the Universal Digital Library 1999.pdf{{!}}From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library]]'', trans. Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 191 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5d75db679ff37c2d76622bd8 ARG]. Reviews: [http://sci-hub.st/10.1162/leon.2010.43.2.186b Anker] (Leonardo), [http://sci-hub.st/10.1002/asi.21113 Warwick] (J Am Soc Inf Sci Tech), [http://sci-hub.st/10.1080/10714421.2010.505163 Stinson] (Comm Rev), [https://www.academia.edu/8571026/ Collins] (Journ Mass Comm Q). [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/34shn8cs9780252034350.html]
  
 
* Roger Chartier, [[Media:Chartier_Roger_2004_Languages_Books_and_Reading_from_the_Printed_Word_to_the_Digital_Text.pdf{{!}}"Languages, Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text"]], trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan, ''Critical Inquiry'' 31, Autumn 2004, pp 133-152.
 
* Roger Chartier, [[Media:Chartier_Roger_2004_Languages_Books_and_Reading_from_the_Printed_Word_to_the_Digital_Text.pdf{{!}}"Languages, Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text"]], trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan, ''Critical Inquiry'' 31, Autumn 2004, pp 133-152.
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* 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}}
 
* 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/]
 
* 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/]
* Guillaume Cabanac, [http://sci-hub.se/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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* 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.
 
* Balázs Bodó, [http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2816925 "Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement"], Jul 2016. Paper prepared for the 8th Annual Workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK, 6-8 July 2016.
 
* Balázs Bodó, [http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2816925 "Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement"], Jul 2016. Paper prepared for the 8th Annual Workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK, 6-8 July 2016.
 
* Abigail De Kosnik, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19024 Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom]'', MIT Press, Sep 2016, x+430 pp.
 
* Abigail De Kosnik, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19024 Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom]'', MIT Press, Sep 2016, x+430 pp.
 
* Cassius Adair, Lisa Nakamura, [https://lnakamur.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/american-literature-2017-adair-255-78.pdf "The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back: Woman of Color Feminism, Digital Labor, and Networked Pedagogy"], ''American Literature'' 89:2, Jun 2017, pp 255-278. [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=15453]
 
* Cassius Adair, Lisa Nakamura, [https://lnakamur.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/american-literature-2017-adair-255-78.pdf "The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back: Woman of Color Feminism, Digital Labor, and Networked Pedagogy"], ''American Literature'' 89:2, Jun 2017, pp 255-278. [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=15453]
* Albert N. Greco, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s12109-017-9522-7 "The Kirtsaeng and SCI-HUB Cases: The Major U.S. Copyright Cases in the Twenty-First Century"], ''Publishing Research Quarterly'' 33:3, Sep 2017, pp 238-253.
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* Albert N. Greco, [http://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s12109-017-9522-7 "The Kirtsaeng and SCI-HUB Cases: The Major U.S. Copyright Cases in the Twenty-First Century"], ''Publishing Research Quarterly'' 33:3, Sep 2017, pp 238-253.
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, [https://monoskop.org/images/c/ca/ISEA_Proceedings_2017.pdf#page=513 "Temporary and Distributed Libraries, Breaking Boundaries, Creating New Resources"], in ''ISEA 2017 Manizales Bio-Creation and Peace: Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Arts'', eds. Julián Jaramillo Arango, et al., Manizales: Universidad de Caldas, and ISEA International, 2017, pp 511-514.  
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, [https://monoskop.org/images/c/ca/ISEA_Proceedings_2017.pdf#page=513 "Temporary and Distributed Libraries, Breaking Boundaries, Creating New Resources"], in ''ISEA 2017 Manizales Bio-Creation and Peace: Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Arts'', eds. Julián Jaramillo Arango, et al., Manizales: Universidad de Caldas, and ISEA International, 2017, pp 511-514.  
 
* Daniel S Himmelstein, Ariel Rodriguez Romero, Jacob G Levernier, Thomas Anthony Munro, Stephen Reid McLaughlin, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Casey S Greene, [https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32822 "Research: Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature"], ''eLife'', 9 Feb 2018.
 
* Daniel S Himmelstein, Ariel Rodriguez Romero, Jacob G Levernier, Thomas Anthony Munro, Stephen Reid McLaughlin, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Casey S Greene, [https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32822 "Research: Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature"], ''eLife'', 9 Feb 2018.
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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.
 
* [[Library Genesis]] (LibGen), est. March 2008, has multiple interfaces, mirrors and versions [http://libgen.rs/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
 
* [[Library Genesis]] (LibGen), est. March 2008, has multiple interfaces, mirrors and versions [http://libgen.rs/] [http://bookzz.org/] [http://www.bookfi.net/].
* [http://sci-hub.se Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan]. [https://sci-hub.now.sh/]
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* [http://sci-hub.st Sci-Hub], est. September 2011 by [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ Alexandra Elbakyan]. [https://sci-hub.now.sh/]
 
* [[Bibliotik]], a torrent site for e-books.
 
* [[Bibliotik]], a torrent site for e-books.
 
* [https://leftove.rs Leftove.rs], a digital archive of radical political ephemera. Est. 2019 by [https://maydayrooms.org/ MayDay Rooms], London. [https://maydayrooms.org/dissenting-ephemera-conference/]
 
* [https://leftove.rs Leftove.rs], a digital archive of radical political ephemera. Est. 2019 by [https://maydayrooms.org/ MayDay Rooms], London. [https://maydayrooms.org/dissenting-ephemera-conference/]

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Arts, humanities and social sciences

Libraries

  • 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. Monoskop. Monoskop Log.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Uberty is a resource of documents and media related to New Rationalism, Accelerationism, and other recent theory and philosophy. Established 2015. Twitter. Facebook.
  • Sci-Hub provides mass and public access to 60 million research papers. Established 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan. 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. 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 by Jean-Marie Tremblay. Maintained by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC).
See also

Conferences, workshops, exhibitions, seminars

Interventions, research, projects

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)
  • The Library Is Open, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 09), Jul 2019, 92 pp. Website. (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)
  • The Library Is Open, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 09), Jun 2019. Publication PDF. (English)
  • Inverse Reader, ed. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Sep 2019ff. A collection of 64 texts, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. [15] (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