About, licence and contact
Licence
The list, the text and the data files (data/library.yml and everything in exports/) are released under the MIT License. The works we cite belong to their authors and publishers.
Disclaimer
A title on this list is one we have read and found useful for illicit trade work. That is the whole claim. We have no connection to the publishers, we take no commissions, and we link to Open Library and to DOIs rather than to any shop. Editions and prices change; the ISBN we give is the edition we checked on the date at the bottom of each page, and the monthly check tells us when a record moves.
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to the authors who did the work these pages point to, to the Open Library and Crossref teams whose open registries make the identifiers checkable, and to the participants of the Summer School on Illicit Trade, whose questions decide what goes on this list.
Our repositories
| Repository | Purpose | Status |
|---|---|---|
| recommended-reading | This list, also at library.ab-labs.io/recommended-reading |  |
| osint-tools | Maritime and supply chain OSINT tools, also at library.ab-labs.io/osint-tools |  |
| osint-ai-guide | AI-Enhanced OSINT: a practical guide, also at library.ab-labs.io/osint-ai-guide |  |
| equasis-cli | Equasis from the command line, in batches |  |
| cue-kit | Turn video into frames and transcripts for analysis |  |
| mara-roadmap | Public roadmap and feedback for MARA, our maritime security intelligence platform |  |
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