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World Library Foundation Newsletter: October 2020, Volume 4, Issue 10

Open to All: Free Knowledge, from the First Public Libraries to Open Access Week

World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.

2020

Abstract

The World Library Foundation's newsletter for October 2020 (Volume 4, Issue 10). Open to All: for International Open Access Week, October 19-25, the story of knowledge open to every reader, from Benjamin Franklin's Library Company, the Boston Public Library and Andrew Carnegie's libraries to Michael Hart's first free electronic book, the Budapest definition of open access and the coronavirus research opened to the world in 2020. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "Knowledge Belongs to Everyone"; The United Nations at 75, on the Charter that came into force on October 24, 1945; and from the Library Exhibits, Krakatoa, 1883.

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