Zeno.org () is a
digital library
A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital ...
with German texts and other content such as pictures, facsimile, etc., which has been started by the
Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, a German
publishing house
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...
and sister enterprise of
Directmedia Publishing
Directmedia Publishing is a German publishing house created in January 1995 by Ralf Szymanski and Erwin Jurschitza as a publisher of digital media. The emphasis of the publishing house's content lies within the field of digital libraries, particula ...
GmbH. The content is based on the digital libraries from the CDs and DVDs published by Directmedia, The Yorck Projekt and Zenodot. It uses a stable mirror of the
German Wikipedia, purchasable as German language Wikipedia DVD-ROM. Since its official start in September 2007, it is the largest fulltext online digital library in the German language.
Since 2008, Zeno.org does not belong anymore to Zenodot; it is meanwhile owned by ''Contumax''.
[Full company name is “Contumax GmbH & Co. KG”, compar]
Impressum
(legal notice) of Zeno.org (German, retrieved on 8 March 2016). The content of Zenodot and its sister company DirectMedia Publishing remains nonetheless available.
The text content of Zeno.org is given partly with facsimiles. All the literature and encyclopedias are citable since text sources, page numbers and permanent links to the single pages are quoted.
See also
* Similar or comparable projects:
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Google Book Search
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Open Library
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**
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."
It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital libr ...
** Projekt Gutenberg-DE
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Wikisource
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Sources
* Agon S. Buchholz
„Die Digitale Bibliothek macht Ernst mit Open Access“ In: ''kefk.org'', 12 July 2007 (German).
External links
* {{Official website
„Volltextbibliothek Zeno.org startet mit kostenlosem Lesematerial“ In: ''heise online'', 30 September 2007 (German).
References
German digital libraries