OPEN LIBRARY
Open Library is an online project intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
Books
for the blind and dyslexic
The website was relaunched adding
ADA compliance and offering over 1 million modern and older books to the print
disabled in May 2010.[2]
Digital
lending library
Tens of thousands of modern books
were made available from 4[3]
and then 150 libraries and publishers[4]
for digital lending.
Book
database
Its book information is collected
from the Library of Congress, other libraries, and Amazon.com,
as well as from user contributions through a Wiki-like interface. If books are available in digital form, a
button labelled "Read" appears next to its catalog listing. Links to
where books can be purchased or borrowed are also provided.
There are different entities in the
database:
- authors
- works (which are the aggregate of all books with the same title and text)
- editions (which are different publications of the corresponding works)
Open Library claims to have 6
million authors and 20 million books (not works), and about one million Public
Domain books are available as digitized books[5].
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