You know about libgen.is already?
Re: your project, it would probably be best to contact a professor or student at that library who shares an interest in the document.
Or a librarian. Or ask someone on craigslist? Pay someone on fiverr?
But who knows, maybe it is possible to create a network of library lovers to do this. . . Looks like there are people on the discord.
Back in the day i used to use inter library loan to avoid buying books. But these days i can get most of what I want digitally.
I tried all the above besides fiverr, but nothing came of it.
I'm also building a resource list of similar projects, so feel free to leave your suggestions in a reply and I'll keep updating the list
Index
Swapping Items
Online Libraries
Search Tool
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Swapping Items
Paperback Swap
Lets you send books you have but no longer want for credits you can then use for books other people have but don't want. Sending books through the mail isn't even that expensive since you get a discounted Media Mail rate.
Keep in mind, if you want to get rid of your copy of Fifty Shades of Gray you'll have to wait until like 300 other people are able to find someone who wants their copy. Also, if you think you can just order up a popular book like Ready Player Two, you'll have to wait until 100 other people find someone with a copy they want to give up. That will likely take a while, fortunately giving you enough time to upgrade your reading standards.
Standard Members ($20 a year) request books with Book Credits only and never pay Swap Fees. Limited Members ($12 a year) can make 30 requests per year using Book Credits only without paying any Swap Fees. A la Carte members (free) pay a 49-cent Swap Fee plus Book Credit for each request.
r/Scholar
This subreddit is for requesting and sharing specific articles available in various databases. And it has over 86,000 Members.
Trash nothing
Provides a new web interface designed to make freecycling groups quicker, easier and more accessible.
The Great British Reuse Map
Are you unsure what the easiest option is to find or donate reused items? Well now there’s a map and article to explain all your options, including:
- Food Banks, Real Junk Food Projects & Food Not Bombs Events
- Reuse Centres
- Free Item Gifting Organisations
- Free Item Gifting Facebook Groups
- Repair Cafes
Little Free Library
Promotes neighborhood book exchanges, usually in the form of a public bookcase. More than 90,000 public book exchanges are registered with the organization and branded as Little Free Libraries.
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Online Libraries
BookZZ
Z-Library is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains over 9,945,695 books and 84,837,000 articles. We aim to make literature accessible to everyone.
Libgen
Library Genesis (LibGen) is the largest free library in history: giving the world free access to 84 million scholarly journal articles, 6.6 million academic and general-interest books, 2.2 million comics, and 381 thousand magazines.
Sci-Hub
The first website in the world to provide mass & public access to research papers
Project Gutenberg
Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
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Search Tool
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions, in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Crossref
For metadata searches.
dx.doi.org
To resolve a DOI name.
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