Blog Briefs: A great resource: The National Academies Press makes all pdf books free!

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The National Academies Press!

It is highly unlikely that you haven't heard about the NAP, a confluence of various US organizations that publish several reports a year. Whether you are in sciences, engineering, entrepreneurship or policy making, you would use any valuable information that comes your way for free, right? Well, I read this press release, and jumped on the NAP site to find out that there are over 4,000 books that are now downloadable for free!

I tested one and found it really simple to access a book by subject and launch the download. While you could register and access some of their deals and such, you could also just proceed as a guest..

Link: http://nap.edu