The
Internet Archive (
IA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the World Wide Web.
With offices located in the Presidio in San Francisco, California, and data centers in San Francisco, Redwood City, and Mountain View, CA, the archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings. To ensure the stability and endurance of the Internet Archive, its collection is mirrored at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, so far the only library in the world with a mirror
The IA makes its collections available at no cost to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. It is a member of the American Library Association and is officially recognized by the State of California as a library
[h3]Texts collection[/h3]The texts collection includes digitized books from various libraries around the world as well as many special collections. As of October 2008, the Internet Archive operated 18 scanning centers in five countries, digitizing about 1,000 books a day, financially supported by libraries and foundations. As of November 2008, when there were about 1 million texts, the entire collection was over 0.5 pet bytes, which includes raw camera images, cropped and skewed images, PDFs, and raw OCR data.
Between about 2006 and 2008 Microsoft Corporation had a special relationship with Internet Archive texts through its Live Search Books project, scanning over 300,000 books which were contributed to the collection, as well as financial support and scanning equipment. On May 23, 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending the Live Book Search project and no longer scanning books. Microsoft will be making its scanned books available without contractual restriction and making the scanning equipment available to its digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.
Around October 2007 Internet Archive began importing book scans made by Google Book Search which are in the public domain. As of November 2008 there are over half a million such imports representing almost half of the total books on Internet Archive. The books are identical to the copies found on Google, except without the Google watermarks
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