For information - Peter Townsend's Poverty in the United Kingdom (1979) is available to download for free at:
http://www.poverty.ac.uk/free-resources-books/poverty-united-kingdom
Professor Rosalind Edwards
Sociology and Social Policy / Social Sciences
University of Southampton
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Sent: 15 September 2013 10:47
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Subject: Open Access materials
I'm sending this partly in the interests of shameless self-publicity, and partly to issue a challenge. I've obtained reversion of the rights of three of my older books, which are now freely available for download under a Creative Commons licence. The books are
* Stigma and social welfare, originally published by Croom Helm, 1984
* Principles of social welfare, originally published by Routledge, 1988
* Poverty and social security: concepts and principles, originally published by Routledge, 1993.
The books are available in PDF and ebook formats. The download page is at
http://paulspicker.wordpress.com/open-access-material/
I'm a firm believer in the value of open access. It's regrettable, in my view, that while there are repositories offering work from a range of writers of a particular political colour - you'll find no problem in finding books on the internet by von Mises or Hayek - we don't have equivalent access to the works of Titmuss, Tawney, Abel-Smith or Townsend. What we have instead is a range of research reports, pamphlets, ephemera, newspaper articles and me.
So here is my challenge. There are loads of you out there who have made a major contribution to the field. You want people to read your stuff, as I do. You don't want it to lie buried forever. So put it out there for people to read. Go on: you know you want to.
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Paul Spicker
Professor of Public Policy
Robert Gordon University
Garthdee Road
Aberdeen
AB10 7QE
+441224263120
website: http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction
blog: http://www.paulspicker.wordpress.com
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