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Open Library mentions (263)

• MLIS books available digitally?

  Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 6 months ago

• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

  Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• is there any way to read books for free?

  Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 7 months ago

• YSK: You can access many old and out of print hiking books from the Internet Archive's Open Library

  The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 7 months ago

• Searching for a pharmacy book

  I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 8 months ago

Archive-It mentions (3)

• Not able to access old website, getting this message instead

  Other projects include Open Library & archive-it.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• How great of a blow to historians is the migration of letters and journals to the digital realm, where most of them are inaccessible to historians (locked email accounts, hard drives, etc)?

  The biggest hurdle in DH of the early internet and manipulating the data at scale is creating collections from archived material that fit your needs. The internet archive has a subscription-based archival tool Archive-It but the collection starts when you (or some other person) creates it. There isn't a collection for anti-vaccine material from 1996-. With Covid, many collections have been started but these will... Source: almost 2 years ago

• How to archive an entire website?

  Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations to harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content. Through our user friendly web application Archive-It partners can collect, catalog, and manage their collections of archived content with 24/7 access and full text search available for their use as well as their patrons. Source: almost 2 years ago