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The Openlearn Project

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The openlearn project makes educational resources, taken from Open University courses, freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world with access to the internet. Published under a Creative Commons copyright license, users are free to download, remix and share the material under the same license. The Open University itself was founded in the late 1960’s […]

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Diaries of Charles Darwin’s wife have been published online

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The diaries of Charles Darwin’s wife have been published online, giving an unparalleled insight into the day-to-day life of the world’s greatest naturalist. Sixty pocket books are still in existence. They cover Emma Darwin’s life from 1824, when on January 1 the 16-year-old girl records that she “played at charades”, until her death in 1896. […]

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Lost voices of Victorian working class uncovered in political protest poems

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Labourers expressed fight for social justice in thousands of lines of verse In 1841, AW’s poem To The Sons Of Toil was first published in the radical newspaper the Northern Star, which had a circulation of 50,000 and readership of half a million: How comes it that ye toil and sweat And bear the oppressor’s […]

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Microsoft Takes Google to Task over Copyright

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Microsoft, which is boosting its efforts to catch up to Google in the search arena, used yesterday’s AAP annual meeting to make a highly charged pitch to differentiate Microsoft’s approach to creating searchable databases from that of its competitor. Unsurprisingly, the major difference articulated by Microsoft associate general counsel Thomas Rubin is Microsoft’s respect for […]

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Another PG mention on slashdot.org

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The following is from slashdot.org. The numbered links are apparently images. Despite what others say on this list, it’s nice to see PG used in education like this. ftblguy writes “MIT’s Open CourseWare program provides a great example of how the open source movement is impacting education. The Online Education Database also lists Project Gutenberg, […]

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Sci-Fi New Wave writer David Masson dies aged 91

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David Masson, who has died aged 91, will be most remembered for his collection of brilliant and influential science-fiction short stories, The Caltraps of Time (1968). They had been first published individually in the British SF magazine New Worlds, which during the 1960s had a radical policy of rethinking science fiction’s standard generic material. This […]

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Captain America Is Dead

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Captain America, a Marvel Entertainment superhero, is fatally shot by a sniper in the 25th issue of his eponymous comic, which arrived in stores yesterday. The assassination ends the sentinel of liberty’s fight for right, which began in 1941. The last episode in Captain America’s life comes after the events of “Civil War,” a seven-issue […]

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How many eBooks can be given away in the next 15 years?

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In the first 50 years of The Gutenberg Press more books were created than in all previous history. Will this also be true of Project Gutenberg’s invention of a modern Gutenberg Press via the electronic book? Starting With The Present Let’s just consider the 100,000 eBooks available freely from Project Gutenberg, but keep in mind […]

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Daylight Saving Time changes for U.S.A. from 2007

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Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is brought forward by 3 or 4 weeks in Spring and extended by one week in the Fall. The schedule for the states of the United States that adopt daylight saving time will be: 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March. Time will revert to standard time at […]

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University of Illinois joins the Open Content Alliance

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois has joined an alliance of educational institutions, Internet companies and other groups in the U.S. and abroad that is building a massive digital archive of public domain books for universal and free public access. In addition to Illinois, other partners in the Open Content Alliance include Adobe Systems, […]

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Random House Introduces New Search Tool

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Random House has introduced a search tool on its Web site that will make available a small portion of text from 5,000 of its new and backlist titles, the company announced yesterday. As much as 10 percent of each book, typically a front cover, introduction and first chapter, will be accessible on the Random House […]

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