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1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. American Libraries by Scheible, J. (Johann); Ennemoser, Joseph, 1787-1854. Geschichte der Magie. English; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC texts eye favorite 8 comment 1 Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Magic, Jewish, Incantations, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric Source: Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. By Manmathanatha Datta , Manmatha Nath Dutt favorite 5 comment 0 Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

By Arthur Cornwallis Madan favorite 1 Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Source: by Charles Darwin favorite 6 comment 2. 5. 1. 2. 3. Papers from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, fro Type: Other > Other Files: Size: 32.48 GiB (34874868471 Bytes) Tag(s): JSTOR Philosophical Transactions of science research journals papers Public Domain Uploaded: By: gmaxwell_ Seeders: Leechers: Comments Info Hash: (Problems with magnets links are fixed by upgrading your torrent client!) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This archive contains 18,592 scientific publications totaling 33GiB, all from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and which should be available to everyone at no cost, but most have previously only been made available at high prices through paywall gatekeepers like JSTOR.

4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. Earlier today we received a strange and intriguing press release from a certain ‘Marmaduke Robida’ claiming to be ‘Director for Public Domain Content’ at Gale Cengage’s UK premises in Andover. Said the press release: Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is thrilled to announce that all its public domain content will be freely accessible on the open web. “On this Public Domain Day, we are proud to have taken such a ground-breaking decision. The press release linked to a website which proudly proclaimed: All Public Domain content to be freely available online.

This was met with astonishment by members of our public domain discussion list, many of whom suspected that the news might well be too good to be true. I acknowledge this decision might seem a bit disorientating. I quickly fired off an email to Cengage’s Director of Media and Public Relations to see if they had any comments. Marmaduke Robida (MarmadukeRobida) sur Twitter. Moving on « Public Domain Liberator. Home | Gale Digital Collections. Ialogo. Aaron's Army. Do not think for a moment that Aaron's work on JSTOR was the random act of a lone hacker, some kind of crazy, spur-of-the-moment bulk download.

JSTOR had long come in for withering criticism from the net. Larry Lessig called JSTOR a moral outrage in a talk and I suppose I have to confess he was quoting me. We weren't the only ones fanning those flames. Sequestering knowledge behind pay walls—making scientific journals only available to a few kids fortunate enough to be at fancy universities and charging $20 an article for the remaining 99% of us—was a festering wound. It offended many people. It embarrassed many who wrote those articles that their work had become somebody's profit margin, a members-only country club of knowledge. Many of us helped fan those flames. But JSTOR was just one of many battles. Aaron wasn't a lone wolf, he was part of an army, and I had the honor of serving with him for a decade.

We worked together on a dozen government databases. We did nothing wrong. Manifeste de la guérilla pour le libre accès. We Want You.