Obecność polskich utworów literackich w zagranicznych bibliotekach cyfrowych
Presence of Polish literary collections in foreign digital libraries

Summary/Abstract: The article contains an analysis of the presence of Polish literary canon in international digital libraries. The main aim of the elaboration is to examine the quantitative dissemination of literary works comprising the canon of Polish literature in main foreign content aggregators and qualitative analysis of the typed collections. The data from the analysis of contents of selected digital libraries comprised the source of the study. As a result of the research, it was established that Europeana provides 1775 units, of which 1434 in Polish and 341 in other languages, Google books provides 764 units, of which 508 in Polish and 256 in other languages, and Internet Archive provides 254 units, of which 235 in Polish and 19 in other languages. The type of analyzed resources was also taken into consideration. Europeana comprised mainly literary and iconographic works, while Internet Access – literary and audiovisual. Google Books provides only text files. The work is concluded by a short analysis of the content providers. For Europeana it was mainly the National Library and the Federation of Digital Libraries, while for Internet Archive - Canadian Libraries. Foreign-language documents come from national libraries of the respective countries.

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