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Practical Points in Nursing, Third Edition, is a book for nurses in private practice written by Emily A. M. Stoney and published in 1903. The author had passed away prior to the publication of the third edition. I have not been able to find further information, but will include it here if I do.
This is an experiment at using WordPress as a content management system for managing the online publication of a book. I haven’t been able to find a way of changing WordPress’s hierarchical structure so that chapters would appear in a numerical order, rather than newest first, as is typical with a blog.
To overcome that, I am using the Pages feature of WordPress and organizing the content that way. I have also added the option to leave comments on pages, so it would function as any other blog entry would.
The downside is that, apparently, the pages cannot be included in an RSS feed, so you will be unable to subscribe to this book by RSS.
Perhaps I’ll do the next book differently. We’ll see how this works out.
PUBLIC DOMAIN?
This edition of Practical Points in Nursing is in the public domain in the United States. I have been unable to determine its copyright status outside the United States, thus this website is only intended for use by those Internet users residing in the United States.
Here is my Copyright “worksheet.” I am using The Public Domain by Stephen Fishman. This book is available from Nolo.com. It’s a very useful book with lots of details on determining what is and is not in the public domain.
If a work was first published in the United States before 1923, it is in the public domain. If a work was first published outside the United States before 1909, it is in the public domain in the United States.
This particular book has a copyright date of 1903. So, in either case, it is in the public domain in the United States. However, the book is unclear as to whether it was first published in the United States or outside the United States, as it is “Registered at Stationers’ Hall, London, England.”
That could have been merely to secure copyright in England. In such a case, the United States would be considered the country of first publication, and the book would be in the public domain both here and abroad.
However, I cannot confirm that with certainty. In the UK, a book published in that time period would still be protected by copyright 70 years after the author’s death. Since the author died in 1903 or earlier, than the copyright would have expired in 1973 or earlier. But, since the content was revised, it may have been eligible for copyright under the author (who is not readily identified) who made the revisions, as the copyright would last until 70 years after the death of the last living author.
If the author is not known, then it is 70 years after publication. However, just because the revisions’ author is not clearly identified in the book doesn’t mean that he or she is not known.
Thus, while it is clear that the book is in the public domain in the United States, I cannot state the same with certainty for regions outside the United States. So, until I can confirm its copyright status outside the United States, this website is intended solely for use by residents of the United States.
COPYRIGHT
You will note that this website does carry a copyright notice. While the book is in the public domain in the United States, I do claim a copyright on my design for the site as well as the additional content I add to it, which may include text, graphics and other media.
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