Bartleby.com is an American
electronic text archive, headquartered in
Los Angeles
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(US) and named for
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (Name change, born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works ar ...
's story "
Bartleby, the Scrivener". It is a commercial website operated by
Barnes & Noble Education,
though its repository of texts can still be accessed. The repository has four main categories: reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction.
History
It was initiated with the name "Project Bartleby" in January 1993 as a collection of classic literature as part of the website of
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
. In February 1994, they published the first classic book in
HTML
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code format,
Walt Whitman's ''
Leaves of Grass''.
Barnes & Noble Education (BNED) is an independent, public company that began trading using the New York Stock Exchange on August 3, 2015. In 2016 it acquired Student Brands, an education technology company which was then operating Bartleby.com as a digital study website. In 2017, BNED announced the start of an on-line commercial study aid system, named "bartleby", as part of the Company’s reporting segment Digital Student Solutions (DSS). Due to the site’s ability to gain user acquisition by SEO, Bartleby.com was chosen to serve as the basis of a new set of products and services emphasizing improving student success and outcomes.
Student cheating
Bartleby's system Learn provides a question-and-answer service similar to that of
Chegg
Chegg, Inc., is an American Educational technology, education technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services.
The comp ...
. Students have been identified as using this to engage in
contract cheating. Some universities therefore explicitly forbid students from using Bartleby's Q&A service.
References
External links
* {{official website, https://www.bartleby.com/
Commercial digital libraries
Digital humanities projects
American digital libraries