{{short description|American electronic text archive}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use American English|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox website | owner = BNED | country = United States | launch_date = 1993 | commercial = yes | url = {{url|https://www.bartleby.com}} }} '''Bartleby.com''' is an American electronic text archive, headquartered in Los Angeles (US) and named for Herman Melville's story "Bartleby, the Scrivener". It is a commercial website operated by Barnes & Noble Education,<ref name="Business Wire">{{Cite press release |title=Barnes & Noble Education Acquires Student Brands |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170804005402/en/Barnes-Noble-Education-Acquires-Student-Brands |access-date=2018-04-18 |website=BusinessWire|date=4 August 2017 }}</ref> though its repository of texts can still be [http://bartleby.com/sv/welcome.html accessed.]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/technology/computing/article/Reference-materials-abound-2499797.php|title=Reference materials abound|website=SF Gate|date=10 April 2006 }}</ref> The repository has four main categories: [https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/reference/ 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. In February 1994, they published the first classic book in HTML code format, Walt Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 12, 1998 |title=People |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/23/24/25.html |access-date=2013-06-09 |website=Columbia University Record |publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>
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).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-04 |title=Barnes & Noble Education Acquires Student Brands |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170804005402/en/Barnes-Noble-Education-Acquires-Student-Brands |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=www.businesswire.com |language=en}}</ref> 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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
==Student cheating== Bartleby's system Learn provides a question-and-answer service similar to that of Chegg. 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academic Integrity at the School of Computer Science |url=https://academicintegrity.cs.auckland.ac.nz |website=www.cs.auckland.ac.nz |publisher=University of Auckland}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vu |first=Lauren |date=2022-04-07 |title=Chapman professor's legal battle with Course Hero raises debate of ethics behind pay-to-use learning platforms |url=https://www.thepanthernewspaper.org/features/5vgvt0zr0wb8csmkw4vmfuu4jxlk3s |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=The Panther Newspaper |language=en-US}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{official website|https://www.bartleby.com/}}
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