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1 | PLACE | ORGANIZATION(S) | PROJECT | DATE BEGUN | NUMBER OF ITEMS | CONTENT | PUBLIC DOMAIN | IN-COPYRIGHT | NOTES | SOURCE(S) |
2 | USA | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg | 1971 | 33,000 | Books, audiobooks | 100% | 0% | http://gutenberg.org | |
3 | USA | Library of Congress | American Memory | 1990 | 210,000 | Manuscripts, images, audio, video | 100% | 0% | http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/about/index.html | |
4 | USA | Library of Congress | National Digital Library | 1994 | 5,000,000 | Manuscripts, images, audio, video | 100% | 0% | Lamolinara, Guy. “The National Digital Library at 10..” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 63, no. 10 (October 2004): 195-201. | |
5 | USA | Internet Archive | Internet Archive | 1996 | 2,500,000 | Books, other texts, audio, moving images, web pages | 100% | 0% | Budget is 10 million per year. | http://www.archive.org/about/about.php, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive |
6 | USA | California Digital Library | University of California | 1997 | 3,000,000 | Books, images, scholarly papers, web sites | http://www.cdlib.org/about/numbers.html | |||
7 | France | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Gallica | 1999 | 1,300,000 | Books, manuscripts, maps, images, periodicals, scores | 100% | 0% | Oberhelman, D. D. “Gallica: The Digital Library.” Reference Reviews 22, no. 4 (2008): 8–9., http://gallica.bnf.fr/ | |
8 | USA | eBrary | eBrary | 1999 | 170,000 | Books, audiobooks, texts | 0% | 100% | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebrary, http://ebrary.com | |
9 | USA | National Science Foundation | National Science Digital Library | 2000 | 2,500,000 | Texts | Science-related "teaching resources" of all kinds | Mervis, Jeffrey. “NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library.” Science 323, no. 5910 (January 2, 2009): 54 -58. http://www.sciencemag.org.mutex.gmu.edu/content/323/5910/54.short. , McArthur, David. “National Science Digital Library: Shaping Education's Cyberinfrastructure..” Computer 41, no. 2 (2008): 26-32. | ||
10 | USA | Google Books | 2002 | 15,000,000 | Books, periodicals | 27% | 73% | Most of the in-copyright works are orphans. | Kravets, David. “Google Books Fosters Intellectual, Legal Crossroads.” Wired, February 18, 2010. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/google-books-fosters-intellectual-legal-crossroads/., Crawford, James. “On the Future of Books.” Inside Google Books, October 14, 2010. http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/on-future-of-books.html. | |
11 | USA | OverDrive | Download service for libraries | 2002 | 500,000 | Books, audiobooks | 0% | 100% | http://www.overdrive.com/About/ | |
12 | China | National Library of China | National Digital Library Project | 2005 | 1,620,000 | Books, periodicals, other texts, images, sounds, videos | Wei Dawei, and Sun Yigang. “The National Digital Library Project.” D-Lib Magazine 16, no. 5 (May 2010): 1. | |||
13 | Europe | European Commission | Europeana | 2005 | 15,000,000 | Books, periodicals, other texts, images, sounds, videos | 100% | 0% | Just yesterday launched an API service | http://www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.html |
14 | Korea | National Library of South Korea | National Digital Library of Korea (dibrary) | 2005 | 380,000 | Books, periodicals, images, audio, video | Some articles claim that it has 116 million "pieces of data," but I think that's counting things like database records. It has 380,000 ebooks, at any rate. | Bae Ji-sook. “Library Going Digital.” The Korea Times, May 20, 2009, sec. Nation. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/05/113_45292.html. | ||
15 | Norway | National Library of Norway | NBDigital | 2005 | 7,300,000 | Books, periodicals, audio (radio), video (TV and movies), images, manuscripts, web sites | The number of items is much larger, doubtless -- doesn't count websites, radio, or movies, and the number is from spring 2009. Also, the Ministry of Culture increased the amount it gave by a huge amount, from .3 million GBP in 2008 to 1.3 million in 2009. | Takle, Marianne. “The Norwegian National Digital Library..” Ariadne: A Web & Print Magazine of Internet Issues for Librarians & Information Specialists 30, no. 60 (July 2009): 16. | ||
16 | USA | Audible.com, Amazon.com | Audible | 2005 | 85,000 | Audiobooks, spoken word recordings | 0% | 100% | http://audible.com, “Amazon Buying Audible In Deal Worth $300 Million; Should Boost Kindle Content | paidContent.” paidContent, n.d. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-amazon-buying-audible-for-300-million/. | |
17 | World | Library of Congress, UNESCO | World Digital Library | 2005 | 1,250 | Books, images, maps | 100% | 0% | Google gave $3 million to it; not sure of source of other funds. | Pfanner, Eric. “Unesco Puts World's Major Works Online.” The New York Times, April 21, 2009, sec. Technology. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/21library.html?scp=3&sq=world%20digital%20library&st=cse. , Hafner, Katie. “Google Gift to Digital Library.” The New York Times, November 22, 2005, sec. Technology. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/technology/22google.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=world%20digital%20library&st=cse. |
18 | USA | Internet Archive | Open Library | 2007 | 1,700,000 | Books | 99.99% | 0.01% | Just began a lending program of in-copyright books with a collection of 9,000 | http://openlibrary.org/help/faq |
19 | USA | Amazon | Kindle store | 2007 | 810,000 | Books, magazines, newspapers, blogs, other texts | 20% | 80% | “Amazon Buying Audible In Deal Worth $300 Million; Should Boost Kindle Content | paidContent.” paidContent, n.d. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-amazon-buying-audible-for-300-million/, http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-blogs/ | |
20 | USA | Netflix | Netflix Watch Instantly | 2007 | 20,000 | Movies | 0% | 100% | "Cost" is Netflix's annual operating expenses as of 2010 according to WikiInvest | Trefis. “Amazon Streaming Lags Netflix.” TheStreet, February 28, 2011. http://www.thestreet.com/_aol/story/11025593/1/amazon-streaming-lags-netflix.html?cm_ven=AOL&cm_cat=Free&cm_pla=Feed&cm_ite=Feed. , http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Netflix_%28NFLX%29/Data/Total_Operating_Expenses |
21 | USA | HathiTrust | HathiTrust | 2008 | 8,200,000 | Books, periodicals | 26% | 76% | http://www.hathitrust.org/about | |
22 | USA | EBSCO | NetLibrary | 1999 | 300,000 | Books, audiobooks | 0% | 100% | http://library.netlibrary.com/Home.aspx | |
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