Project Gutenberg Canada --already online-- will officially launch this Sunday, Canada Day. ResourceShelf quotes an email from Gutenberg founder Michael Hart:
The twin missions of Project Gutenberg Canada are to promote and make available, free of charge:
CANADIAN BOOKS - Canadian literature (in both of Canada’s official languages) - non-fiction books on Canadian history, politics, and culture
INTERNATIONAL BOOKS - fiction and non-fiction (from all countries) which are in the Canadian public domain - in any language, as is appropriate for a country with Canada’s multicultural makeup...
[T]he site already includes around 200 titles by such famous Canadian authors as Emily Carr, Frederick Philip Grove, Louis Hémon, Pauline Johnson, Stephen Leacock, Nellie McClung, and L. M. Montgomery of “Anne of Green Gables” fame.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/29/2007 10:15:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
