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Found this via Fedi and thought it could be of interest to the HN crowd. “MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of the

by cpach 3y ago

Found this via Fedi and thought it could be of interest to the HN crowd. “MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of them, 297 different books and documents provide a helpful PDF edition of their titles. I [Jason Scott] have ’ported’ these over to the Internet Archive where they live a life and have links back to their original MIT Press pages should you want to buy a hard copy” https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/110848606613977786 https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/110848606613977786

toomuchtodo 3y ago
Are the recent additions in this collection as well? Also, thank you Jason! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37024262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37024262
tw37034365 3y ago
Related: A few months ago, I stumbled upon the fact that a bunch of MIT Press books that are listed on the Internet Archive have been relicensed, including some that aren't (currently) part of this collection. For example, the 1995 book World War II And The American Dream contains this Creative Commons dedication in the frontmatter[1]: > This file has been authorized and provided by the publisher, The MIT Press, as part of its ongoing efforts to make available in digital form older titles that are no longer readily available. > This file is provided for non-commercial use through the Internet Archive under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. For more information please visit www.creativecommons.org. The exact text of this notice can vary from book to book, and I have a hunch that I haven't seen all of them. Somewhat annoyingly, the status/metadata for these items hasn't been updated, so they are still listed as being limited preview titles, which requires you check them out and AFAIK also means their contents are not available for download (even though the Creative Commons license allows unlimited copies). 1. <https://archive.org/details/worldwariiameric00albr/page/n1/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/worldwariiameric00albr/page/n1/m...>

by cpach 3y ago

toomuchtodo 3y ago

Are the recent additions in this collection as well? Also, thank you Jason! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37024262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37024262

tw37034365 3y ago

Related: A few months ago, I stumbled upon the fact that a bunch of MIT Press books that are listed on the Internet Archive have been relicensed, including some that aren't (currently) part of this collection. For example, the 1995 book World War II And The American Dream contains this Creative Commons dedication in the frontmatter[1]: > This file has been authorized and provided by the publisher, The MIT Press, as part of its ongoing efforts to make available in digital form older titles that are no longer readily available. > This file is provided for non-commercial use through the Internet Archive under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. For more information please visit www.creativecommons.org. The exact text of this notice can vary from book to book, and I have a hunch that I haven't seen all of them. Somewhat annoyingly, the status/metadata for these items hasn't been updated, so they are still listed as being limited preview titles, which requires you check them out and AFAIK also means their contents are not available for download (even though the Creative Commons license allows unlimited copies). 1. <https://archive.org/details/worldwariiameric00albr/page/n1/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/worldwariiameric00albr/page/n1/m...>