no cure for curiosity.

newwavefeminism:

cupcakesnotbombs:

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where are all these great PDFs coming from?! Did the knowledge gods rain down on us recently?

we love Tumblr’s dearth of free PDFs and will reblog any that we come across.

(Source: queerveganfeminist)

classickk:

themindislimitless:

If you have any more, or alternate links just in case these ever get removed, feel free to add to the list. Pass the resources along!

• Ain’t I a Woman (pdf)
• Art on my Mind (pdf download)
• Black Women Intellectuals (pdf) (from Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life with Cornel West)
• Cultural Criticism and Transformation (pdf download)
• Cultural Criticism and Transformation (youtube video, part 1)
• Ending Domination: The Struggle Continues (youtube video, full)
• Feminism Is For Everybody (pdf)
• Is Paris Burning? (pdf download)
• Love as the Practice of Freedom (pdf download)
• Outlaw Culture (pdf download) 
• Race and Representation (pdf download)
• Remembered Rapture: Dancing With Words (pdf)
• Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace. (pdf)
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (pdf download)
• The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators. (pdf)
• Understanding Patriarchy (pdf) 
• Where We Stand: Class Matters (pdf)
• We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (pdf). Also here.

Edit as of 24 June: list updated and alphabetized. Many thanks to wretchedoftheearth, elainecastillo, grim-dark, erosum and mmmajestic who all helped add links and resources.

Awesome, thank you! <33

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for anyone interested, I put all 16 pdf files into one rar file.

Earlier this week, Yale university student, Emmanuel Quartey, posted a video interview with the school’s librarian, Susan Gibbons, in which he asked her about open-access publishing. Her response was far more ambivalent than the Harvard faculty council’s. Though she noted that open-access journals are more accessible, she worried that asking younger faculty to publish in open-access (presumably less prestigious) journals could jeopardize their chances to attain tenure. In essence, prestige would stay put but tenure would move away from younger Yale professors. So, the library would continue to support both open and closed-access journals. You can read her full answer below or check out the video interview above

newwavefeminism:

so-treu:

all thanks to deliciousKaek! <3

free PDFs of Audre Lorde’s work? ummm…. chyeah

foundingfatherfest:

Check it out peeps!

world-shaker:

Here’s a full list:

1. 1984
2. Animal Farm
3. Brave New World
4. Frankenstein
5. Heart of Darkness
6. Romeo and Juliet
7. MacBeth
8. Hamlet
9. Julius Caesar
10. Pride & Prejudice
11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. The Call of the Wild
13. The Crucible
14. The Grapes of Wrath
15. The Great Gatsby
16. The Odyssey
17. The Old Man and the Sea
18. The Red Badge of Courage
19. The Scarlet Letter
20. To Kill a Mockingbird

And here are three, for an example:

Animal Farm by George Orwell: Free eBook – Free Audio Book – Free Animated Movie
Orwell’s 1945 allegorical novella took aim at the corruption of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian rule. The short book, which almost never saw the light of day, appears on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: eText – Free Radio Dramatization (by Huxley himself) – Free Audio Book by Audible
Little known fact. Huxley once taught George Orwell French at Eton. And, years later his 1931 classic, Brave New World, is often mentioned in the same breath with 1984 when it comes to great books that describe a dystopian future.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Free ebook – Free Audio Book (MP3) – Radio Drama version (1938) – Movie
Mary Shelley started writing the great monster novel when she was only 18 and completed it when she was 21. The 1823 gothic novel is arguably one of your first works of science fiction.

Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available. 

Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment.  And nestling amongst these illustrious papers, readers willing to delve a little deeper into the archive may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution – including accounts of monstrous calves, grisly tales of students being struck by lightning, and early experiments on to how to cool drinks “without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Niter, and That at Any Time of the Year.”

Includes the world’s first peer-reviewed scientific journal! This is BIG, folks. Check it out.

Available for a temporarily free download, Dragon Dictation is a neat little app that is very similar to Nuance Communications’ Dragon NaturallySpeaking. 

Essentially this is a voice recognition software of high quality that will record your notes for you; the app form of it will allow you to update your status, compose texts and emails, or send notes to yourself through voice recognition so you don’t have to type. It’s also a great tool (both the app and the actual software) for those who may have mobile disabilities.

Very cool stuff. 

neil-gaiman:

A PDF file of a short story that won the Hugo Award. If you know anything about Sherlock Holmes or H. P. Lovecraft, you may enjoy this. If you don’t, it’ll probably be incomprehensible twaddle.