On 12/01/11 5:15 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal
> project that he's been working on for a long time:
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http://www.unz.org/
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> It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which
> hosted there, some externally.
>
> Examples:
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http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRev
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http://www.unz.org/Publication/Century
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> Timeslice from the outbreak of WWI:
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http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllArticles?Period=1914aug
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> According to Ron, the system contains almost 400,000 authors and their
> writings. A couple of examples of author pages:
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http://www.unz.org/Author/MenckenHL
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http://www.unz.org/Author/WhartonEdith
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> Ron believes that the copyright situation is clear -- that either it's
> PD due to age, due to lack of copyright renewal, or that he has
> permission in some cases via licensing agreements. In any case,
> there's quite a bit of unambiguously public domain stuff there that I
> haven't seen digitized elsewhere, and it should be useful as a
> research library for Wikipedians as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>