Sure, I'd know that. Some are texts released under the Creative Commons. In some cases, the uploads are of audio recordings of book release functions or interviews. Some texts are copyright-expired. And in a few cases, the authors (Mervyn Maciel, with his own *Bwana Karani* and a cookbook released after Elsie's death; and Dr Stella Mascarenhas) have put out their work in a way that it can be shared by all. Willy Goes created Konkani's first audio-book especially for a platform like this. Again, most do not have an overt academic or research slant; the point I'm trying to make is it's not hard to share if one wants to.
*Goa Gazettes* have also been uploaded there in recent times (but now sure how many, or how consistently). These have been uploaded by the related department. Am guessing that it was projects like the Million Book Project that brought online works like *Índia Portugueza; a propósito dos acontecimentos de Satary (Portuguese India: On the events of Satari)*! Prof Prakash Parienkar has shared some of his works here: https://archive.org/details/varsal0000prak (Varsal) https://archive.org/details/davarne0000prak (Dovornem) https://archive.org/details/versetale0000prak (Kolyachi Naddeponna) His uploads also share access to Mhadei-Kallzantlyan Kagdar (an eco-anthropological study of Mhadei river basin, in Devanagari Konkani) https://archive.org/details/Mhadei-kallzantlyanKagdar..anEcoanthropologicalStudyOfMhadeiRiverBasin <https://archive.org/details/Mhadei-kallzantlyanKagdar..anEcoanthropologicalStudyOfMhadeiRiverBasin> (If there's a problem with the link -- some are a kilometre long! -- go to archive.org and search for the subject.) FN On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 02:54, 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > <https://web.archive.org/web/20080614093014/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_Project > > https://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. 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