There has been some effort in Project Gutenburg to typeset public domain books (and at least one journal issue) in mathematics: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Ma

There has been some effort in Project Gutenburg to typeset public domain books (and at least one journal issue) in mathematics: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Mathematics_%28Bookshelf%29 http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Mathematics_%28Bookshelf%29 Doing this for all of the scientific literature is rather daunting, however.