Books Online, No US Access collects links to free online full-text books by authors who have been dead for more than 50 but less than 70 years. These books, therefore, are in the public domain for many countries around the world, but not for the US or the EU. Whether they are lawful to download depends on where you live. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/25/2002 08:57:00 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.