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So what's the first book displayed on the NAP site?

Yep. You guessed it.

This title is part of the America's Climate Choices project, the National Research Council's most comprehensive study of climate change to date.

Climate change is occurring. It is very likely caused by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems. And these emissions continue to increase, which will result in ...

Yadda yadda yadda! Propaganda is free.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12781

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National Academies Press Makes 4000 Science Books Free to Download
By: lkorrow
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Sun, 05 Jun 11 10:44 PM
Msg. 13424 of 21975

National Academies Press Makes 4000 Science Books Free to Download

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=06022011

WASHINGTON -- As of today all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press will be downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports produced by the Press. The mission of the National Academies Press (NAP) -- publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council -- is to disseminate the institutions' content as widely as possible while maintaining financial sustainability. To that end, NAP began offering free content online in 1994. Before today’s announcement, all PDFs were free to download in developing countries, and 65 percent of them were available for free to any user.

"Our business model has evolved so that it is now financially viable to put this content out to the entire world for free,"
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http://www.nap.edu/


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