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Open Library
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online project for book data by the Internet Archive
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Open Library is referenced by 17,037 other articles, and connects out to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending and English language.
It is catalogued under topics including Aggregation-based digital libraries, American digital libraries and Bibliographic databases and indexes.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type of site
- Digital library index
- Available in
- English , Czech , German , French , Croatian , Italian , Portuguese , Telugu , Chinese , Ukrainian
- Founder s
- Aaron Swartz , Brewster Kahle , Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
- Revenue
- Donation
- Url
- openlibrary .org
- Commercial
- No
- Registration
- Free
- Launched
- 2006 ; 20 years ago ( 2006 )
- Current status
- Active
- Content license
- Data: public domain Source code: AGPLv3
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- openlibrary.org
- Image
- OpenLibrarypage.jpg
- Motto
- One web page for every book ever published
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- social media followers
- 177
- inception
- 2007-07-16
- Commons category
- Open Library
- Alexa rank
- 14360
- search formatter URL
- openlibrary.org/search?q=$1
- source code repository URL
- github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary
- collection or exhibition size
- 5000000
- API endpoint URL
- refine.codefork.com/reconcile/openlibrary
- P7771
- February 6
- official blog URL
- blog.openlibrary.org
- terms of service URL
- archive.org/about/terms.php
- random page URL
- www.mangle.ca/books
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Encyclopedic overview
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many public domain, out-of-print, and in-print books.
Book database and digital lending library
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Open Library” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.