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===Open Library===
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The Open Library is another project of the Internet Archive. The project seeks to include a web page for every book ever published: it holds 25&nbsp;million catalog records of editions. It also seeks to be a web-accessible public library: it contains the full texts of approximately 1,600,000 public domain books (out of the more than five million from the main [[#Text collection|texts collection]]), as well as in-print and in-copyright books,<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ on Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) |date=February 13, 2019 |url=https://nwu.org/book-division/cdl/faq/ |publisher=National Writers Union |access-date=February 15, 2019 |archive-date=March 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20200330193826/https://nwu.org/book%2Ddivision/cdl/faq/ |url-status=live }}</ref> many of which are fully readable, downloadable<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Antone |last=Gonsalves |title=Internet Archive Claims Progress Against Google Library Initiative |url=http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196701339 |magazine=InformationWeek |date=December 20, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014174528/http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196701339 |archive-date=October 14, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Open Library Makes Its Online Debut |url=http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2235?=atwc |publisher=Chronicle of Higher Education |work=The Wired Campus |date=July 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184259/http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2235%3F%3Datwc |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[full-text search]]able;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Inside |url=https://openlibrary.org/search/inside |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020130821/http://openlibrary.org/search/inside |archive-date=October 20, 2013 |website=OpenLibrary.org}}</ref> it offers a two-week loan of [[ebook|e-book]]s in its [[controlled digital lending]] program for over 647,784 books not in the public domain, in partnership with over 1,000 library partners from six countries<ref name="Hoffelder2013">{{Cite web |last=Hoffelder |first=Nate |date=July 9, 2013 |title=Internet Archive Now Hosts 4.4 Million eBooks, Sees 15 Million eBooks Downloaded Each Month |url=https://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/07/09/internet-archive-now-hosts-4-4-million-ebooks-sees-15-million-ebooks-downloaded-each-month/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527192428/https://the-digital-reader.com/internet-archive-now-hosts-4-4-million-ebooks-sees-15-million-ebooks-downloaded-each-month/ |archive-date=2023-05-27 |publisher=The Digital Reader}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 25, 2011 |title=In-Library eBook Lending Program Expands to 1,000 Libraries |url=https://blog.archive.org/2011/06/25/in-library-ebook-lending-program-expands-to-1000-libraries/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813035522/https://blog.archive.org/2011/06/25/in-library-ebook-lending-program-expands-to-1000-libraries/ |archive-date=August 13, 2014 |website=Internet Archive Blogs |publisher=Internet Archive}}</ref> after a free registration on the web site. Open Library is a [[free and open-source software]] project, with its source code freely available on [[GitHub]].

The Open Library faces objections from some authors and the [[Society of Authors]], who hold that the project is distributing books without authorization and is thus in violation of copyright laws,<ref>{{cite news|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/22/internet-archives-ebook-loans-face-uk-copyright-challenge|title=Internet Archive's ebook loans face UK copyright challenge|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=22 Jan 2019|access-date=March 28, 2020|archive-date=February 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212070623/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/22/internet-archives-ebook-loans-face-uk-copyright-challenge|url-status=live}}</ref> and four major publishers initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive in June 2020 to stop the Open Library project.<ref name="open library lawsuit">{{cite web | url = https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/1/21277036/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-open-library-ebook-lending | title = Publishers sue Internet Archive over Open Library ebook lending | first = Russell | last = Brandom | date = June 1, 2020 | access-date = June 1, 2020 | work = [[The Verge]] | archive-date = June 1, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200601185706/https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/1/21277036/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-open-library-ebook-lending | url-status = live }}</ref>