The Open Library - a project of the Internet Archive - is an open semantic wiki that aggregates bibliographic metadata from world’s leading libraries and publishers that includes references to electronic book collections, physical libraries and booksellers wich aims "to display a page on the web for every book ever published". Everybody is able to participate and full text of scanned books (e-books) are available when accessible where the bibliographic record has been harvested.
To date, the Open Library have gathered about 30 million records (20 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way [...] and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books.
Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library.
[...] Follow the links below to find out more about participating, or just start browsing around and add some book information:
The Internet Archive's catalog is available using the Open Archives Initiative protocol, and in bulk from the Mellon funded OAIster project, which was designed for metadata harvesting.
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