Wikisource:Sources
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| A collection of resources that collect public domain texts, similar to those collected by Wikisource. Please consider viewing these sources when looking for works to add to our project. |
| Database | Proofing quality |
Pagescans | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Gutenberg | variable | No | Texts proofed by the Distributed Proofreaders are of excellent quality. Others are less reliable. |
| Bartleby | excellent | No | Texts not already imported are listed at User:Quadell/Bartleby. |
| Digital Book Index | variable | variable | This is really a meta-search, which links to texts in other locations |
| Google Books | poor | yes | Not all texts are in the public domain. Many texts are only partly available. |
| University of Virgina library | excellent | no | Many texts are only available to UV students and staff |
| Bibliomania | good | no | Mostly reuses Gutenberg content |
| Dinsmore Documentation | excellent | no | Professional proofreaders, showing off their work |
| Christian Classics Ethereal Library | excellent | yes | Many formats available |
| History Sourcebooks | good | no | Despite frequent © notices, texts are in the public domain |
| Internet Archive | poor | yes | Text is raw OCR without proofreading |
| Baldwin Project | excellent | no | Children's books |
| University of Michigan library | NA | yes | Pagescans only |
| Library of Liberty | good | yes | Some works are under copyright |
| Anarchy Archives | good | partial | Some works are under copyright |
| Wake Forest University library | excellent | no | Many texts are annotated |
| Yale Law School's Avalon Project | good | no | Some works are under copyright |
| American Memory | excellent | partial | From Library of Congress |
| UK Government Statute Law database | excellent | some | Many are Crown Copyright |
| British History Online | excellent | no | Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles |
| The Literature Network | good | no | Includes biographies and photos of authors |
| Sacred Texts | excellent | no | includes original images |
| University of Hong Kong Libraries | n/a | yes | No evident main page for this repository so use a domain-scoped Google search. See also some Wikisource community notes about downloading from this repository. |
| The Universal Digital Library | poor | yes | Some works are under copyright (copyright status is indicated), many non-English works |
[edit] Specific collections
[edit] Other resources
Although these sites don't provide source texts, they may be useful to Wikisourcerors in other ways.
- LibriVox - public domain recordings of public domain works, in both mp3 and ogg.
- Upload the ogg files to the Commons, tagging the files with {{LibriVox public domain}}, and then use {{listen|Soundfile.ogg}} in the notes field of the work here on Wikisource.
- Tesseract Online - This online OCR engine can turn an image file into text.
