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onebir
Ambassador ![]() Joined: 16 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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see:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=basic+course&lr=&sa=N&start=0 But I only seem to get a snippet views of these books. I've pointed out to google that they're in the public domain - perhaps they'll give full access. Could forum members in the US check what kind of access they're getting & post below? The notes below suggest google books may only be giving US users access to public domain works (apparently something can be public domain in the US but not elsewhere). See: http://books.google.com/support/partner/bin/answer.py?answer=20768&query=public+domain+books&topic=&ctx=en:quick_answer&type= |
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Exocrist
Newbie ![]() Joined: 01 September 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 24 |
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No luck. It'd be sort of nice if Google had all of the texts available, but it looks like they don't have them all, and they don't have them available.
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onebir
Ambassador ![]() Joined: 16 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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"No luck. It'd be sort of nice if Google had all of the texts available,
but it looks like they don't have them all, and they don't have them
available."
They *have* the full text for: Lingala Basic Course (FSI) Shona Basic Course (FSI) Kirundi Basic Course (FSI) Kituba Basic Course (FSI) Albanian Basic Course (US Army Language School - DLI's forerunner I think) They're just not letting people see it. When they realise this stuff is in the public domain I hope they will. Various libraries are gradually scanning books & adding them, so it's worth checking now and then. |
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onebir
Ambassador ![]() Joined: 16 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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Google books has signed up princeton university library:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S16/84/71S02/index.xml?section=topstories If only they'd actually put the FSI stuff they currently have into 'full' view :s |
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DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
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I'm not sure if people are aware of this, but some (most?) libraries that have the ERIC microfiche collection also have free scanners that take a USB thumb drive or burnable CD. You can even email the images. The user just centers the fiche, focuses, and presses the scan button. The page is saved as a 1.5 to 5 megabyte TIFF file.
A list of 1029 libraries containing microfiche is available from ERIC under document number ED400831. Use the online search engine at www.eric.ed.gov to locate the fiche number of the desired document. All of the FSI and DLI documents appear to be available (Albanian Basic , Russian Basic, etc) for free (not counting your time scanning). I haven't tried this yet, so I'm not positive of what's on the fiches. I assume it's the whole book. Example Libraries: http://library.osu.edu/sites/reference/micper/aboutmic.php (See the equipment paragraph) http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/photocopy.phtml (click on the Microfilm Scanning link at the bottom of the page) Edited by DemiPuppet - 06 February 2007 at 10:34pm |
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Poetry
Newbie ![]() Joined: 11 March 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 49 |
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When I get back home, I'll look this up. I did see some things with Eric, but not full language texts. Perhaps its a different access or I wasn't giving Eric the right secret handshake.
I'm currently on the east side of Britain, after spending the better part of a week on the north Welsh coast. In the hail. And the snow. And the hailing snow. That blows up in 5 minutes and is gone in 45. Strangest weather I've ever seen. Welsh is a fun language, though. Wonder if the British gov't has public domain language materials..... --Poetry |
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onebir
Ambassador ![]() Joined: 16 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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"Strangest weather I've ever seen.
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Welcome to the UK! ![]() "Wonder if the British gov't has public domain language materials..... " Unfortunately, the UK has 'crown copyright' over material it produces - the exact opposite of the (enlightened) approach in the US... But you might find that there are free Welsh materials available from Welsh nationalist sources... |
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toivo
Newbie ![]() Joined: 19 February 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 11 |
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Why not check out this:
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