Open Library

Open Library
Screenshot
Open Library homepage in September 2011
Type of site
Digital library index
Available inEnglish, Czech, German, French, Croatian, Italian, Portuguese, Telugu, Chinese, Ukrainian
Founder(s)Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
RevenueDonation
URLopenlibrary.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationFree
Launched2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Current statusActive
Content license

Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz,[3][4] Brewster Kahle,[5] Alexis Rossi,[6] Anand Chitipothu,[6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud,[6] 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.

  1. ^ Bookfinch; Chitipothu, Anand; Oates, George; West, Jessamyn (2013-10-10). "Using Open Library Data § Who owns the Open Library catalog?". Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
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  5. ^ "Aaron Swartz: howtoget". Aaronsw.jottit.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  6. ^ a b c "The Open Library Team". Open Library. Archived from the original on 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2018-07-16.