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National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download
- cafard 15y agoNAP has long been a leader in on-line publishing.
- evangineer 15y agoAnybody familiar with NAP's business model?
- bugsy 15y agoIt'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 http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/whoweare.html
- HistoryInAction 15y agoPublished through the Government Printing Office (GPO), too, I believe. So it's basically, publicly funded research is now entirely publicly available.
- Alienz 15y agoAs long as the work is a result of taxpayer's money, they SHOULD make it free for the public's access.
- niels_olson 15y agoMaaaaan.... I submitted that within hours of the announcement. And got nuttin! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616450 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616450). It's a good program. More people should poke around that collection.