Internet Archive

American digital library The Internet Archive was established in 1996. It offers unrestricted access to a variety of digital resources, including print, multimedia, software, websites, and music. Additionally, the Archive supports an open and free Internet.

The Internet Archive reports that as of January 1, 2023, the Wayback Machine contains over 38 million print materials, 11.6 million audiovisual works, 2.6 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.7 million photos, 251,000 concerts, and over 832 billion web pages.

The Internet Archive's web crawlers automatically gather the majority of the data they save, helping to preserve as much of the public web as they can, but they also allow anyone to upload and download digital content to their data cluster.

Hundreds of billions of web pages have been captured and stored in its web archive, the Wayback Machine. In addition, the Archive manages a number of book digitization projects that together make up one of the biggest book digitization initiatives in the world.

Another initiative from the Internet Archive is the Open Library. The project, which maintains 25 million catalog data of editions, aims to include a web page for every book ever published. Along with being an online public library, it also aims to house the complete texts of over 1,600,000 books in the public domain and many in-print and in-copyright books that are fully searchable, downloadable, and fully readable.

After registering for free on the website, it provides a two-week loan of e-books for over 647,784 volumes that are not in the public domain through its restricted digital lending program, which is in collaboration with over 1,000 library partners from six countries. The source code for the Open Library software project is freely accessible on GitHub. The project is free and open-source.

Website: https://archive.org/