[Aztlan] Electronic Texts

[Elaine Day Schele]

Hi Dave,

Along those same lines, we should remind everyone about the Project 
Gutenburg Website http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page, where volunteers 
all over the world are scanning, copying and transcribing two kinds of books 
(the following words were copied from their License Page:

1. public domain books whose copyright has expired in the United States, and
2. copyrighted books whose author gave Project Gutenberg permission to 
distribute them.
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N.B. The catalog will tell you if an ebook is copyrighted, but sometimes the 
catalog is wrong. Always look at the license inside the ebook to tell if it 
is copyrighted or not.

Elaine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hixson" <aztlandave at yahoo.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 6:23 AM
Subject: [Aztlan] Electronic Texts on Precolumbian Topics (aka "Free Books")


> Hey all,
>
>  As I mentioned in a previous post, I was asked by David Grove to spread 
> the word that his landmark publication "Ancient Chalcatzingo" is now 
> available for free download on FAMSI's website.
>
>  http://www.famsi.org/research/grove/chalcatzingo/index.html
>
>  Since the publication is out of print, and no one but the used book 
> sellers are making any money off of it, UT Press gave him back the rights 
> to distribute the volume for free.  For those working with publishers, 
> this is a great movement to encourage.
>
>  Dumbarton Oaks is doing a similar thing with their out-of-print volumes:
>
>  http://www.doaks.org/Etexts.html
>
>  On that D.O. link you can download such books as:
>
>  -Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks (PDF, 8.3 MB)
> -Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
> -Archaeology of Formative Ecuador
> -Gender in Pre-Hispanic America
> -Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec
> -The Cult of the Feline (PDF, 6.3 MB)
> -Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama: On the Development of Social Rank 
> and Symbolism in the Central Province (PDF, 14.3 MB)
> -The Burial Theme in Moche Iconography (PDF, 4.3 MB)
> -Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica
> -Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
> -Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks
> -Native Traditions in the Postconquest World
> -Intercambio, política y sociedad en el siglo XVI
>
>  Also, 88 publications of the New World Archaeological Foundation (a great 
> resource for site reports and Formative period Mesoamerica, among other 
> topics) are available for free browsing and printing at:
>
>  http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/spc/nwaf/
>
>  [Click "Browse" in the link above to view all titles]
>
>  Hope this helps some of you who may be working away from a library, or 
> don't want to spend money and time xeroxing ;-)
>
>  -Dave
>
>
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