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Open collections

Ask, and every library gets it.

Your own books are the point of the platform. Alongside them we carry openly licensed collections, taken by subject. When a library asks for a source we don't have, we ingest it once — and it appears for everyone.

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What we carry

Two collections, taken by subject.

Neither is a dump. You choose the subjects that suit your readers, and adding or removing them never touches your own titles.

Standard Ebooks
Public domain

Carefully produced editions of public-domain literature — properly typeset, proofread and given real covers. Not raw scans.

Subjects include fiction, poetry, adventure, mystery, philosophy, history, travel and science.

Open Textbook Library
Open access

Peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks for school and university level, grouped by discipline.

Subjects include medicine and health, nursing, psychology, mathematics, business, humanities, law and engineering.

How requests work

One ingestion, everyone benefits.

This is the part that compounds. Every source a library asks for makes the platform more useful to every other library, at no additional cost to anyone.

You tell us the source

A repository, an open publisher, a national archive, a university press, a government publisher.

We check the licence

It has to genuinely permit redistribution. Where it doesn't, we tell you why rather than quietly dropping it.

We ingest it once

Files converted, metadata cleaned, covers generated where they're missing, subjects assigned.

Everyone gets it

It appears as a collection any library can add by subject. Including yours, first.

Good candidates

What tends to work.

  • National and regional archives. Digitised public-domain holdings, especially in languages the big collections ignore.
  • Open access publishers. University presses and scholarly publishers with genuinely open licences.
  • Government publishers. Reports, statistics, health guidance and official publications, usually free to redistribute.
  • Open education projects. Openly licensed textbooks and teaching material beyond the collections we already carry.
What we can't take

Where we have to say no.

  • Commercial titles. DITA licenses no commercial content. If you want current bestsellers, you license them from the publisher and we host them under those terms.
  • Unclear rights. A file being freely downloadable is not the same as a licence to redistribute it.
  • Non-commercial-only licences. These are ambiguous for a platform some libraries pay for. We look at these case by case.
  • Scans without permission. A digitised in-copyright book is still an in-copyright book.
Ask

What should we be carrying?

Tell us the source and roughly what's in it. If the licence allows it, we'll ingest it — and you'll be the first library with it on the shelf.