PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.prweb.com PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - Press Releases en PRWeb Distribution Newswire http://www.prweb.com/images_v4/prweb_logo_hv.jpg http://www.prweb.com 200 46 xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 The Internet Archive Receives Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Digitize and Provide Open Online Access to Historical Collections from Five Major Libraries http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb493213.htm The Internet Archive's efforts to digitize content and make it freely accessible online has received a tremendous boost from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The foundation is awarding Internet Archive a grant to bring historic collections from eminent cultural institutions online without any restrictions on their use. In addition to winning this grant, the Internet Archive through its work supporting Open Content Alliance principles of free and open access to knowledge has reached a milestone of 100,000 digitalized books now publicly available at www.archive.org. (PRWeb Dec 21, 2006)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb493213.htm Internet Archive Honored as Microsoft Education Award Winner at 2006 Tech Museum Awards http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb484644.htm The San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation awarded Internet Archive, the 10 year-old non-profit committed to the preservation and open accessibility of all knowledge, with the Microsoft Education Award and $50,000 cash prize. The Archive now holds billions of historical web pages, digital audio files, public domain movie archives, broadcast TV footage, and close to 100,000 public domain books available freely to anyone in the world. (http://www.archive.org) (PRWeb Nov 29, 2006)

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