Open Access Books from The Ohio State University Press
The Wired Campus Blog posted today (by way of Kairosnews) about an open access program at THE Ohio State University Press. THE Press has made a selection of out-of-print books from their catalog available for download (PDF). While THE Press (or individual author) retains copyright for the works, the copyright statement on the books I browsed says the “…PDF files contain the complete text of the book and may be used for any non-commercial purpose.”
What a great step for a publisher. Now students and other researchers can access a number of materials they might not otherwise find in a local library or have the patience to wait for via interlibrary loan. Assuming, of course, that libraries can catalog and link to these texts or add them to an already existing e-book collection. Any other university presses doing this yet?
