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There are over 20,000 [1] collections of texts, audio, moving images, software, data and archived web pages [2] in the Internet Archive at archive.org.
| Collection | Number of items (December 5, 2015) | Number of Sub-Collections (December 5, 2015) | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moving Image Archive [3] | 2,172,042 | 3,549 [4] | |
| eBook and Texts [5] | 8,614,062 | 3,656 [6] | |
| Audio Archive [7] | 2,676,300 | 8,923 [8] | |
| The Internet Archive Software Collection [9] | 113,329 | 147 [10] | |
| Web Crawls [11] | 2,024,293 | 7,261 [12] | |
| Open Educational Resources [13] | 1,311 | 20 [14] | |
| image [15] | 1,073,570 | 137 [16] | |
| Data collection [17] | 104,081 | 30 [18] | |
| Ourmedia [19] | 344,387 | 0 [20] |
All users of archive.org can upload their free files to the community collections.
| Collection | Number of items (December 5, 2015) | Number of Sub-Collections (December 5, 2015) | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Audio [21] | 2,013,013 | 5 [22] | |
| Community Video [23] | 525,427 | 2 [24] | |
| Community Texts [25] | 397,731 | 31 [26] | |
| Ourmedia [27] | 344,387 | 0 [28] |
| Collection [29] | Number of items (December 5, 2015) | Collectors or Contributors or Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Museum | 2,974 | Brooklyn Museum [30] | |
| Brooklyn Navy Yard | 6 | The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation [31] | |
| Community Wireless | 1 | ||
| Cover Art Archive | 476,809 | Internet Archive, MusicBrainz [32] | |
| Flickr Commons Archive | 840 | ||
| Geograph Britain and Ireland | 8 | ||
| Mathematics | 126 | Hamid Naderi Yeganeh [33] | |
| Occupy Archive | 21 | ||
| Occupy Wall Street Flickr Archive | 15,103 | ||
| SharedMap | 257 | ||
| USGS Maps | 59,965 | Libre Map Project [34] | |
| Wayne Lougee's Art and Photographs | 5,580 |
| Collection [35] | Number of items (December 5, 2015) | Collectors or Contributors or Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arpanet | 195 | Brian Pandji, Katie Hafner, Ryan Morales [36] | |
| Dance Manuals | 208 | Andy Jewell, Tracey Jaquith [37] | |
| Aesthetic Appeal | 150 | Hamid Naderi Yeganeh [38] | |
| Aljam3a-Library المكتبة الجامعة | 13,260 | ||
| Ant Texts | 2,546 | antbase.org [39] | |
| Aozora Bunko 青空文庫 | 4,000 | ||
| Auraria Library Digital Collections | 164 | ||
| BiblioBooksAudio: Textes et Tutoriels | 71 | Cecile BELLUARD [40] | |
| Bishop's College School | 342 | ||
| Boletin Oficial de la Republica Argentina | 55,948 | ||
| Building Technology Heritage Library | 7,793 | ||
| California Garden | 673 | San Diego Floral Association [41] | |
| Catholic University of America Digitized Books | 85 | ||
| Charity Hospital Reports | 115 | ||
| Collected texts of Simon Schwartzman | 1,091 | Simon Schwartzman [42] | |
| Comic Books and Graphic Novels | 15,666 | ||
| Cookbooks and Home Economics | 3,009 | ||
| Daniel Ellsberg | 12 | Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Marx Ellsberg, Brewster Kahle [43] | |
| Des Moines and Polk County, Iowa, City Directories:1866-1922 | 43 | Des Moines Public Library [44] | |
| Digital Fanzine Preservation Society | 234 | ||
| Document Cloud | 166,845 | ||
| Drakar och Demoner | 133 | ||
| Ernie Lazar FOIA Collection | 2,242 | ||
| Folkscanomy: A Library of Books | 22,417 | ||
| Genealogy | 121,776 | ||
| Grammar Analysis | 346 | ||
| Greensburg-Decatur County Public Library | 70 | ||
| International Music Score Library Project | 26,679 | ||
| Mad Magazine | 0 | ||
| Make Projects | 195 | ||
| McGill University Library | 12,746 | ||
| Microfilm | 170,252 | ||
| National and University Library of Iceland | 1,163 | ||
| National Security Internet Archive | 313,768 | Michael Best [45] | |
| No Borders Bookstore | 66 | ||
| North Shore Country Day School | 106 | ||
| Open Reading Room | 2,617 | ||
| Opensource Textbooks | 2,177 | ||
| Panama-California Exposition Digital Archive | 186 | The Committee of One Hundred [46] | |
| Papua New Guinea Human Rights Library | 175 | ||
| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London | 18,553 | ||
| Prelinger Library | 3,737 | ||
| Project 66-16 of the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ | 536 | ||
| Pythagoras Publishing | 408 | ||
| Quigley / Reynolds Family History | 159 | ||
| Real Patidar - www.realpatidar.com | 474 | ||
| RECAP US Federal Court Documents | 1,214,946 | ||
| Russian History | 36 | ||
| Rutland Historical Society | 746 | ||
| Shimer Alumni (Unauthorised) Archive | 384 | Shimer Alumni (Unauthorised) Historical Society [47] | |
| Siyavula Education Collection | 166 | ||
| Social Sciences Society, HKUSU - SSS Library | 143 | ||
| Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library | 836 | ||
| Studies in Consciousness, Intention and Orientation | 247 | ||
| Tamil Nadu Text Books | 260 | ||
| The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Debates | 809 | ||
| The Beat Within Magazine | 126 | ||
| The BITSAVERS.ORG Documents Library | 31,576 | bitsavers.org [48] | |
| The Collection Of The International Psychoanalytic University Berlin | 1,003 | The International Psychoanalytic University Berlin [49] | |
| the Community Media Review Archive | 119 | ||
| The Crittenden Automotive Library | 894 | ||
| The Harvard Classics / Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf | 158 | ||
| The Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists | 120 | ||
| the Library of Adelle Frank | 90 | Adelle Frank [50] | |
| The Magazine Rack | 34,306 | ||
| The Pulp Magazine Archive | 1,639 | ||
| The Science Fiction and Fantasy Fiction Collection | 315 | ||
| The Swedish National Museums of World Culture | 123 | ||
| The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Library | 2 | ||
| The University of Wisconsin-Stout Archives | 235 | ||
| The Zamorano 80 | 146 | ||
| Trinity College Library | 96 | ||
| Urdu Islamic Books Collection | 2,771 | kitabosunnat.com [51] | |
| US Government Documents | 59,231 | Kahle/Austin Foundation, MSN, Omidyar Network [52] | |
| USGS Water Resources of New York Reports | 133 | ||
| WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) | 1,257 | Brewster Kahle [53] | |
| World War II Archive | 4,563 | ||
| École des Ponts ParisTech | 31 | École des ponts ParisTech [54] |
These collections contain items from external sources.
| Collection | Number of items (December 5, 2015) | Number of Sub-Collections (December 5, 2015) | Source | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google books | 1,125,681 [55] | 0 [56] | Google Books | |
| JSTOR Early Journal Content | 452,028 [57] | 340 [58] | JSTOR | |
| Arxiv.org | 782,694 [59] | 0 [60] | arXiv | |
| Flooved | 1,516 [61] | 0 [62] | Flooved |
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