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10 biggest virtual Library in the world. Gutenberg project. Free ebooks courses movies. Millions of Free eBooks and Audio Books Online. Data journalism handbook. Free eBooks for Kindle. Le Petit Prince. Bibliothèque ktang28. De Camille Claudel à Simone Weil, les nouveautés 2014 du domaine public. Ils ne tombent pas dans le domaine public, ils s’y élèvent.

De Camille Claudel à Simone Weil, les nouveautés 2014 du domaine public

C’est en ces termes que le «Calendrier de l’avent du domaine public» nous présente, sur sa page d’accueil, une sélection d’auteurs, de philosophes ou encore de musiciens dont les œuvres verront leur droits d’auteur expirer ce 1er janvier 2014 en France, enrichissant à cette occasion «nos biens communs de la connaissance». Concrètement, à partir de ce mercredi, il vous est par exemple permis de copier, d’échanger ou d’adapter, sans rien payer à personne, les écrits scientifiques de Nikola Tesla ou la correspondance de Camille Claudel. publicité «Il s’agissait d’abord de chercher tous les auteurs dont les œuvres seraient dans le domaine public en janvier 2014.

Qui trouve-t-on donc cette année? Les auteurs morts pour la France pendant la Première ou la Seconde Guerre mondiale bénéficient ainsi d'une protection étendue, allant d'un peu plus de 88 ans à un peu moins de 95 ans. À lire aussi sur Slate.fr. Wiley Online Library. Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library. Free ebooks. Bibliotheque +2700 livres Par Alixe. Bibliotheque eBook Gratuit ! De Camèla. ICDL - International Children's Digital Library. Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide. When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well.

Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide

Thank you for all your helpful contributions! In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order: ManyBooks – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader – Thanks Tony Bryan & abben BookCrossing – Where real books are released into the wild to be found by others – Thanks EngtechLibraryElf – The perfect companion to a public library system – Thanks EngtechScribd – Open library to publish and discover documents online – Thanks CincauHangus Word Public Library – 400,000 PDF ebooks for download – Thanks EllenFree Tech Books – Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes) – Thanks EllenBookins – Swap real books with other readers – Thanks Jimbob WellToldTales – Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter) – Thanks Kevin C.

Google+ Launching YourTopia Italia: Progress in Italy, defined by You. How do we measure social progress?

Launching YourTopia Italia: Progress in Italy, defined by You

Academics and international institutions have struggled with employing measures of human development which go beyond GDP per capita: education, health the the economy, but then what values do we attach to these? In countries like Italy stark regional differences have dominated over time. Particularly in times of fiscal austerity when the country attempts to recover from an economic crisis with major social consequences, seeing how and why the South and the North differ is an important step in a consensus-building process to find solutions and realise collaboration with the citizens. The Open Economics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation released YourTopia Italia – an application which gives the users a chance to input their priorities in eight categories of socio-economic progress: Labour MarketEducationHealthEnvironment and EnergyScience and ResearchHousehold Income and InequalityPublic SafetySocial Life.

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