Well done Rico On Sat, May 6, 2023, 18:23 Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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