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===Digitizing sponsors for books=== Many large institutional sponsors have helped the Internet Archive provide millions of scanned publications (text items).<ref>For example, the [[Princeton Theological Seminary Library]] has described how it and other academic libraries are digitization partners with the Internet Archive: {{cite web |url=https://library.ptsem.edu/partnering-with-the-internet-archive |title=Partnering with the Internet Archive |website=[[Princeton Theological Seminary Library]] |access-date=December 4, 2020 |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130110259/https://library.ptsem.edu/partnering-with-the-internet-archive |url-status=live }}</ref> Some sponsors that have digitized large quantities of texts include the University of Toronto's [[Robarts Library]], [[University of Alberta Libraries]], [[University of Ottawa]], [[Library of Congress]], [[Boston Library Consortium]] member libraries, [[Boston Public Library]], [[Princeton Theological Seminary Library]], and many others.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3A%28texts%29+AND+mediatype%3A%28collection%29&sort=-downloads |title=Internet Archive Search: collection:(texts) |website=archive.org |access-date=December 4, 2020}}</ref> In 2017, the [[MIT Press]] authorized the Internet Archive to digitize and lend books from the press's [[backlist]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/mitpress |title=The MIT Press |website=archive.org |access-date=2020-06-27}}</ref> with financial support from the [[Arcadia Fund]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Hanamura |first=Wendy |date=May 30, 2017 |title=MIT Press Classics Available Soon at Archive.org |url=https://blog.archive.org/2017/05/30/mit-press-classics-available-soon-at-archive-org/ |website=blog.archive.org |access-date=2020-06-27 |quote=For more than eighty years, MIT Press has been publishing acclaimed titles in science, technology, art and architecture. Now, thanks to a new partnership between the Internet Archive and MIT Press, readers will be able to borrow these classics online for the first time.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Green |first=Alex |date=December 1, 2019 |title=New Takes on Academic Publishing: Three university presses find new ways to keep up with a changing market |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/81872-new-takes-on-academic-publishing.html |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=2020-06-27 |quote=Since she became director [of the MIT Press] in 2015, there's little that Brand hasn't reenvisioned at the press. In 2017, the press partnered with the Internet Archive to make its deep backlist available free at libraries, resurrecting books that had not seen the light of day in generations. |archive-date=June 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627161843/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/81872-new-takes-on-academic-publishing.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A year later, the Internet Archive received further funding from the Arcadia Fund to invite some other university presses to partner with the Internet Archive to digitize books, a project called "Unlocking University Press Books".<ref>{{cite web |last=Freeland |first=Chris |date=May 21, 2018 |title=Internet Archive awarded grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press collections |url=https://blog.archive.org/2018/05/21/internet-archive-awarded-grant-from-arcadia-fund-to-digitize-university-press-collections/ |website=blog.archive.org |access-date=2020-06-27 |quote=Internet Archive has received a $1 million dollar grant from Arcadia β a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin β to digitize titles from university press collections to make them available via controlled digital lending.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Albanese |first=Andrew |date=May 25, 2018 |title=Internet Archive Lands Grant to Digitize and Lend University Press Collections |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/76974-is-it-time-to-rethink-how-we-do-library-advocacy.html |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=2020-06-27 |archive-date=June 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627172007/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/76974-is-it-time-to-rethink-how-we-do-library-advocacy.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Library of Congress]] created numerous [[Handle System]] identifiers that pointed to free digitized books in the Internet Archive.<ref>For example: {{cite web |title=hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00198115083 |url=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00198115083 |access-date=November 25, 2020 |mode=cs2 |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704233132/https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00198115083 |url-status=dead }}; {{cite web |title=hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00060921933 |url=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00060921933 |access-date=November 25, 2020 |mode=cs2 |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704233036/https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00060921933 |url-status=dead }}; {{cite web |title=hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00060927248 |url=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00060927248 |access-date=November 25, 2020 |mode=cs2 |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704233041/https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00060927248 |url-status=dead }}; {{cite web |title=hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00001740908 |url=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00001740908 |access-date=November 25, 2020 |mode=cs2 |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704233037/https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00001740908 |url-status=dead }}; {{cite web |title=hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00027740005 |url=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00027740005 |access-date=November 25, 2020 |mode=cs2 |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704233038/https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00027740005 |url-status=dead }}.</ref> The Internet Archive and Open Library are listed on the Library of Congress website as a source of e-books.<ref>{{cite web |title=External Web Sites β Finding E-books: A Guide β Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides, and Finding Aids (Virtual Programs & Services) |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ebooks/external.html |website=Library of Congress |access-date=November 25, 2020 |quote=The Internet Archive includes the full text of more than 2.5 million e-books, including e-books supplied by the Library of Congress. Books can be read online or downloaded and read in a variety of formats. E-books from the Internet Archive can also be found through Open Library, an Internet Archive initiative devoted to texts. |date=2017 |orig-date=April 2011 |first1=J. Cheyenne |last1=Hohman |first2=Yasmeen |last2=Mughal |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125170006/https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ebooks/external.html |url-status=deviated }} And: {{cite web |title=Devices and Formats β Finding E-books: A Guide β Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides, and Finding Aids (Virtual Programs & Services) |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ebooks/devicesformats.html |website=Library of Congress |access-date=November 25, 2020 |quote=Library of Congress publications are available for free download to the Kindle from the Internet Archive. ... The iPad can be used as an e-reader via apps such as iBooks, which support both ePub (.epub) and PDF (.pdf) formats. Both formats are available from the Internet Archive. |date=2017 |orig-date=April 2011 |first1=J. Cheyenne |last1=Hohman |first2=Yasmeen |last2=Mughal |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212005106/https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ebooks/devicesformats.html |url-status=deviated }}</ref>
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