National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download(www8.nationalacademies.org)

35 pointsby Budvor 15 Jahren6 comments

www8.nationalacademies.org

National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=06022011

4 comments

Alienzvor 15 Jahren

As long as the work is a result of taxpayer's money, they SHOULD make it free for the public's access.

Maaaaan.... I submitted that within hours of the announcement. And got nuttin! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616450). It's a good program. More people should poke around that collection.

cafardvor 15 Jahren

NAP has long been a leader in on-line publishing.

evangineervor 15 Jahren

Anybody familiar with NAP's business model?

bugsyvor 15 Jahren

It's not a business, it's the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, which was chartered to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science" by the US Congress and signed into law by President Lincoln in 1863. The idea was the government needed an academy of experts to advise law makers on matters of science.

http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/whoweare.html

HistoryInActionvor 15 Jahren

Published through the Government Printing Office (GPO), too, I believe. So it's basically, publicly funded research is now entirely publicly available.