Dear Frederick,
While this is impressive, please note the publisher does not own the rights to
publish the books they have published in any format other than that agreed in
the original agreement, which is usually hardback, paperback and e-book format.
They may further agree translation rights, film rights, etc. If at all an
entire book is to be made available for free, I hope it has been agreed with
the author.
All best,Selma
On Saturday, 6 May 2023 at 22:09:48 BST, Frederick Noronha
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 09:59, 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net
<[email protected]> wrote:
One has to admire Qatar, they have preserved records pertaining to their
history with the Qatar Digital Library. These records don't belong to them,
they belong to the British Library but they have collaborated with them and set
up their own project to preserve and make available to the public their past.
Actually at one point I wanted to do something similar with all the research I
had which I had photocopied from various archives but I understand from my
techy husband that the cataloguing of it online is not a simple matter, it
requires very specialised software. So I gave up that idea. Also since 2016,
after photography became permissible in the archives, we all stopped
photocopying.
I think the "Million Book Project" [http://www.ulib.org/] is far more
impressive in its scope and conceptualisation. That the Indian-origin prof Raj
Reddy [http://www.rr.cs.cmu.edu/mbdl.htm] played a crucial role, makes it even
more interesting. It is the reason why we keep finding PDFs of even Goa-related
books (from disparate libraries) surfacing all over the place... often when we
didn't even know these existed!
Two descriptions of the MBP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Book_Projecthttps://web.archive.org/web/20080614093014/http://lbslibrary.typepad.com/bizresearch/2007/11/the-million-boo.html
Getting a scanned, copyright-unencumbered book online isn't too difficult a
task. One can just upload the same to archive.org My collection is here:
https://archive.org/details/goa1556 It's a mix of mostly audio + PDF files
(also recordings, interviews, music), and they allocated a separate folder on
which to store it. Not particularly academic, though. FN
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