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Online
books page
The
online books page is a website that facilitates access
to books that are freely readable over the Internet.
It also aims to encourage the development of such
online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
Major parts of online books page include: An index
of thousands of online books freely readable on the
Internet, Pointers to significant directories and
archives of online texts, Special exhibits of particularly
interesting classes of online books and Information
on how readers can help support the growth of online
books. The online books page was founded, and is edited,
by John Mark Ockerbloom. He is a digital library planner
and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is solely responsible for the content of the site.
The
online books page originally was founded in 1993 by
the current editor, while he was a student at Carnegie
Mellon University. He maintained it there until summer
1999, with Web space and computing resources provided
by the School of Computer Science. In 1999, it moved
to its present location at Penn. The index of individual
titles on online books page includes books and definitive
collections that meet some specific criteria. The
online books page is developed in collaboration with
many people and projects. The editor has worked with
The Universal Library Project at Carnegie Mellon.
They currently supply many of the copyright renewal
scans that can be used to check the public domain
status of a work.
The
online books page, its sub-pages and its compilation
of listings are copyright 1993-2003 by John Mark Ockerbloom.
Links to any point in these pages are welcome, and
ordinary links do not require permission. However,
if you want to redistribute or 'mirror' substantial
portions of these listings or pages, or create derivative
works or displays based on them (beyond what is clearly
allowed by fair use), prior written permission is
required. The editor of online books page intends
to respect any copyrights of the authors of the books
listed by the site. We will not knowingly list a book
that is neither online with the copyright holder's
permission, nor in the public domain (or otherwise
legally available) in the country where the online
book is stored. We also attempt to warn people through
online books page about books that are legal to access
in a server's hosting country, but may be illegal
to access from the US (where this site is located).
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