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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First Cebuano Language eBook on Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg of the Philippines is happy to announce the release of the first Cebuano Ebook, Larawan: Mga Sugilanon ug Dinalídalí, a collection of short stories by Vicente Rama (1887-1956). Originally, these stories where published in Cebu in 1921. The stories give a humorous glimpse back into the life in Cebu in the early twenties […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-03-14)

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pgweekly_2007_03_14.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, March 14, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, i.e. Courier New. Windows NotePad is a good a program to use for viewing. THIS WEEKS NEWS ————— DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS COMPLETE THEIR 10,000TH EBOOK! On […]

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Distributed Proofreaders Announce 10,000th eBook

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! In a serious move to release eBooks in a number of fields on this momentous occasions, The Distributed Proofreaders have surpassed the great milestone of 10,000 eBooks, long thought to be dividing line between feasibility study and the real thing. Well, Distributed Proofreaders is definitely a real thing in terms of being one of […]

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DP PRESS RELEASE: DP Releases 10,000th Book

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Today the Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (DP) posted a package of texts that takes us over 10,000 completed titles. I’m very proud of our community of volunteers who have accomplished this fantastic number. The 10K package (listed below) showcases the wide range of our volunteers’ interests and talents. There are examples of a number of […]

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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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