Internet Archive ‘emergency library’ sparks outrage from authors

31-03-2020

Sarah Morgan

Internet Archive ‘emergency library’ sparks outrage from authors

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Last week, the digital library Internet Archive launched its ‘national emergency library’, expanding access to 1.4 million digitised works, to meet the “unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials” during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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