The Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative
The Ohio State University Press is providing free access to over 30 out-of-print books that it has published as part of its open access initiative. Chapters and other book sections are provided as PDF files. The books remain under traditional copyright statements.
Examples include:
- Becoming Browning: The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, 1833–1846
- Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel
- Hopedale: From Commune to Company Town, 1840–1920
- A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor
- Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology
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