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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. By way of an example, you can also try Index Data's MasterKey search tool to access these resources.

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.

Database name #records Description
dmoz 4790655 The Open Directory Project. Human-cataloged web resources.
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.

These resources are made available at no charge, in the hope that they will be useful. We offer no warranty of any kind on the integrity or availability of the resources and metadata. Any use of these resources is entirely your own responsibility.
 

 

References

How to Connect Using SRU (REST-style Webservice)

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How to Connect Using Z39.50

ZOOM: Scripting Z39.50/SRU Clients in (almost) Any Language

Example User Interface (Index Data MasterKey)

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