The searchable indexes below expose public domain ebooks, open access digital repositories, Wikipedia articles, and miscellaneous human-cataloged Internet resources. Through standard search protocols, You can make these resources part of your own information portals, federated search systems, catalogs etc. Connection instructions for SRU and Z39.50 are provided. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions for resources you would like us to add, please contact us, or consider joining the mailing list.. This service is powered by Index Data's Zebra and Metaproxy
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| Database name | #records | Description |
| gutenberg | 22194 | Project Gutenberg. High-quality clean-text ebooks, some audio-books. |
| oaister | 9988376 | OAIster. A Union catalog of digital resources, chiefly open archives of journals, etc. |
| oca-all | 135673 | All of the ebooks made available by the Internet Archive as part of the Open Content Alliance (OCA). Includes high-quality, searchable PDFs, online book-readers, audio books, and much more. Excludes the Gutenberg sub-collection, which is available as a separate database. |
| oca-americana | 49056 | The American Libraries collection of the Open Content Alliance. |
| oca-iacl | 669 | The Internet Archive Children's Library. Books for children from around the world. |
| oca-opensource | 2616 | Collection of community-contributed books at the Internet Archive. |
| oca-toronto | 37241 | The Canadian Libraries collection of the Open Content Alliance. |
| oca-universallibrary | 30888 | The Universal Library, a digitzation project founded at Carnegie-Mellon University. Content hosted at the Internet Archive. |
| wikipedia | 1951239 | Titles and abstracts from Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia. |
| wikipedia-da | 66174 | The Danish Wikipedia. Many thanks to Fujitsu Denmark for their support for the indexing of the national Wikipedias. |
| wikipedia-sv | 243248 | The Swedish Wikipedia. |
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