Data attribution
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- Wikidata
- Entity data, documented attributions, publication dates, and copyright statements. CC0. wikidata.org
- Wikipedia
- The seed list (List of anonymously published works) and per-work reference links. Text CC BY-SA; no Wikipedia prose is reproduced here, and entries link back to their articles. en.wikipedia.org
- Project Gutenberg
- Free full texts of public domain works. gutenberg.org
- Standard Ebooks
- Beautifully produced public domain editions, linked where available. standardebooks.org
- Internet Archive
- Scanned editions and texts for public domain works. archive.org
- Open Library
- Edition and ISBN data for modern editions. openlibrary.org
- Wikimedia Commons
- All images, individually license-checked and credited at /image-credits. commons.wikimedia.org
This site's own dataset is published under CC BY 4.0 at/api/works.json. If you build on it, a link back is appreciated and satisfies the license.