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{{Short description|Online project for book data of the Internet Archive}}'''Open Library''' is an online project intended to create "one [[web page]] for every book ever published". Created by [[Aaron Swartz]],<ref name="BBC2007"/><ref name="Guardian2009"/> [[Brewster Kahle]],<ref>{{cite web|title = Aaron Swartz: howtoget |url = https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget |publisher = Aaronsw.jottit.com|access-date = 2015-06-05|url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150523080104/http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget| archive-date = 2015-05-23}}</ref> Alexis Rossi,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web| url=https://openlibrary.org/about/people.en|title=The Open Library Team |publisher=Open Library |language=en|access-date=2018-07-16| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717013214/https://openlibrary.org/about/people.en|archive-date=2018-07-17|url-status=live}}</ref> Anand Chitipothu,<ref name=":0" /> and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud,<ref name=":0" /> 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. <!-- PLEASE DO NOT LINK [[Kahle/Austin Foundation]] because that page is a redirect to already-linked [[Brewster Kahle]]--> Open Library provides [[online]] digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many [[public ___domain]], out-of-print, and in-print books.

{{Short description|Online project for book data of the Internet Archive}}

{{Infobox website

| name = Open Library

| logo = Open Library logo.svg

| screenshot = OpenLibrarypage.jpg

| screenshot_size = 200px

| collapsible = C

| caption = Open Library homepage in September 2011

| url = {{URL|https://openlibrary.org/}}

| commercial = No

| type = Digital library index

| language = [[English language|English]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Croatian language|Croatian]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]

| registration = Free

| license = {{Plain list|

* Data: public ___domain<ref>{{Cite web|title=Using Open Library Data&nbsp;§ Who owns the Open Library catalog?|url=https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/using?v=8#ownership|date=2013-10-10|author1=Bookfinch|first2=Anand|last2=Chitipothu|first3=George|last3=Oates|first4=Jessamyn|last4=West|access-date=2021-04-06|archive-date=2022-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411005734/https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/using?v=8#ownership|url-status=live}}</ref>

* Source code: [[GNU Affero General Public License|AGPLv3]]<ref name=gitlic/>

}}

| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2006}}

| current_status = Active

| founder = [[Aaron Swartz]], [[Brewster Kahle]], Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud

| revenue = Donation

}}

'''Open Library''' is an online project intended to create "one [[web page]] for every book ever published". Created by [[Aaron Swartz]],<ref name="BBC2007"/><ref name="Guardian2009"/> [[Brewster Kahle]],<ref>{{cite web|title = Aaron Swartz: howtoget |url = https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget |publisher = Aaronsw.jottit.com|access-date = 2015-06-05|url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150523080104/http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget| archive-date = 2015-05-23}}</ref> Alexis Rossi,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web| url=https://openlibrary.org/about/people.en|title=The Open Library Team |publisher=Open Library |language=en|access-date=2018-07-16| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717013214/https://openlibrary.org/about/people.en|archive-date=2018-07-17|url-status=live}}</ref> Anand Chitipothu,<ref name=":0" /> and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud,<ref name=":0" /> 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. <!-- PLEASE DO NOT LINK [[Kahle/Austin Foundation]] because that page is a redirect to already-linked [[Brewster Kahle]]--> Open Library provides [[online]] digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many [[public ___domain]], out-of-print, and in-print books.

==Book database and digital lending library==