Privacy-friendly alternatives to WorldCat
The library union catalog sites closest to WorldCat, with the fewest trackers first: what each homepage loads before you accept cookies. WorldCat itself loads 1 tracker.
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OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
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global library cooperative
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
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legal database
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Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
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Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
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Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
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Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
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Retrosheet
non-profit baseball statistics organization
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PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
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MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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Google
search engine by Google LLC
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Wikiversity
online multilingual collaborative project for learning materials
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Curlie - The Collector of URLs
Curlie directory - Collector of URLs
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OpenStax
OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!
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peer-reviewed open-access journal
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