Unlike open source licenses, the Open Directory License expressly forbids its applicability to software or open content hosted elsewhere.
fsf describes the odl as a non-free license, citing the right to redistrute a given version not being permanent, and the requirement to check the changes to the license.
http://www.openbeelden.nl/">Open Images is an open media platform offering online access to audiovisual archive material for stimulating creative reuse. Open Images has been developed as part of Images for the Future Open Images BlogOpen Peer is an open P2P signalling protocol with these main objectives:
Note: Open Publishing should be distinguished from Open Access Publishing, the publishing of material organized in such a way that there is no financial or other barrier to the user. (All or almost all Open publishing is in fact also open access.)
Open Library's goal is to provide a page on the web for every book ever published.
At its heart, Open Library is a catalog. The project began in November 2007 and has been inhaling catalog records from some of the biggest libraries in the world ever since. Open Library has well over 20 million edition records online, provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books, and link to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon when we can. The secondary goal is to get you as close to the actual document you're looking for as we can, whether that is a scanned version courtesy of the Internet Archive, or a link to Powell's where you can purchase your own copy.
On a slightly more technical note, apart from that page being an online representation of a library catalog card, Open Library also gives people a uri for a work, an edition or author or other book-ish resource that can be used as a pointer and connector for information about books; a Uniform Resource Identifier indeed.
Project Gutenberg is "the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device." Open Library's goal is to list every book -- whether in-print or out-of-print, available at a bookstore or a library, scanned or typed in as text. In other words, we provide access to all of Project Gutenberg's books but we have hundreds of thousands of others as well.
Yes! Open Library tries to link through to WorldCat wherever possible to help you find a book you can actually borrow from a library near you.
A major difference between OCLC and the Open Library is that OCLC is building a catalog to share among libraries, while Open Library is building a catalog to share freely and openly with the public, with the hope that this will get more people involved in using libraries and, in the long run, generate new data that will be useful to the library community. Open Library links to the WorldCat catalog for any editions we have either an ISBN or an OCLC identifier for. This should help people find a copy of the book in their local library.
The Internet Archive and OCLC have discussed working together. The plans for Open Library have been actively shared with OCLC and its records are available to OCLC.
To create your Open Library digital library card account, click the “sign up” link at the top right corner of their home page, openlibrary.org, and simply enter the required information, once you are prompted.
If you have trouble with the signup process please see our Troubleshooting section.
You can help build the Library. All you need to do is hit the EDIT button and start filling in the gaps.
We seek all sorts of details, from what the book is about to information about the physical appearance of the book itself (size, format, number of pages, and things like that).
Another sort of information we're very interested to collect is anything that connects Open Library records to other book sites out there on the Web. The easiest way to do this is to collect what are called "identifiers". If you're a software developer, you might be interested to read a bit more about using Open Library data.
There's a ton of activity across Open Library each day, whether it's a visitor updating one of our entries or a bot making a bunch of batch updates. We've tried to make it so you can keep an eye on what's going in a few different ways:
Yes, please do! Our parent organization, the Internet Archive, accepts donations of physical books, so, if you have books you'd like to donate, please visit our Book Drive page for instructions.
Yes! It's a three step process.
For more information on the uploading process, please see this blog post about uploading and metadata.
You're welcome to donate books to the Internet Archive through our Book Drive program.
If you are an organization with a collection of material that you would like to donate to the Internet Archive (a registered library in the State of California), please send an email query to: info at archive.org.
Unfortunately, we can not. We have no expertise in the valuation of books. You should try to find a website that specializes in used or rare books. Most communities have a used or rare book dealer, and they tend to be incredibly knowledgeable about old books. If you don't know of one, just ask at your favorite bookshop. You can also search for the book on a site like bookfinder.com, to see if there are copies of the book on the market. The prices there will give you some sense of the book's value, but the value of rare books can only be determined by physical inspection.
No. The Open Library team doesn't have any specific contact with any of the authors who have a presence on Open Library so we are unable to help you get in touch with them.
Just as every patron on Open Library has his or her own page, every author has his or her own page as well. Author pages provide background information and usually contain a link to the author's website. For example, here is Cory Doctorow's page on Open Library.
No. Everything we know is already on our site.
The hope is that people who are familiar with a book will help improve the record for that book. Some of our entries only have a title and author. If you see a gap in our records, we would love you to help make our records richer. Just click the edit button.
What you see is what you get on Open Library, and everyone (signed in or not) is encouraged to enrich a record with additional information from which we can all benefit.
No. We don't have any books to sell, but we provide links when possible to online booksellers that might have the book (new or used). We also link to the worldcat.org website, that has a library locator tool for help in finding a copy of the book to borrow. If you find a book on Open Library that you would like to buy and there is no active bookstore link, try the website bookfinder.com, which will search the Web for copies of that book for sale and at what price.
No. But, you can download any ebook that we have available as full text in a variety of formats. Currently we offer over 1.7 million public domain books in PDF, ePub, DAISY, DjVu and ASCII text through our affiliation with the Internet Archive.
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oclc is a worldwide library cooperative, owned, governed and sustained by members since 1967. Our public purpose is a statement of commitment to each other—that we will work together to improve access to the information held in libraries around the globe, and find ways to reduce costs for libraries through collaboration.
Record by record, keystroke by keystroke, librarians built OCLC into the world’s largest library cooperative. We are dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing the rate of rise of library costs. OCLC connects libraries in a global network to manage and share the world’s knowledge and to form a community dedicated to the values of librarianship: cooperation, resource sharing and universal access. The network links members to a powerful, cloud-based infrastructure that provides the systemwide intelligence and cooperative platform needed to collectively innovate and drive operational efficiencies in metadata creation, interlibrary loan, digitization, discovery and delivery. It also provides opportunities for cooperation and resource sharing built around a worldwide community of users—working together at the scale of the Web. The OCLC cooperative is member-owned and member-governed. Librarians guide and shape our direction through a 16-member Board of Trustees—more than half of whom are librarians—and a global council of librarians, who are elected by librarians from regional councils of member libraries. close Libraries operating at Webscale OCLC’s strategy is to work with libraries to achieve the benefits of Webscale: visibility on the web for libraries and their collections, infrastructure to share data and resources locally and globally, and collaboration with other members of the broader information community. Two Products: OCLC WorldCat brings together library data and enables people to find anything available through libraries. OCLC WorldShare provides the shared infrastructure that allows libraries to share everything.