Fair Use Repository

Donate to the Fair Use Repository

The Fair Use Repository at fair-use.org is an effort to allow for easy citation of documents online. We compile, and (where necessary) transcribe electronic copies of (1) documents in the public domain, and (2) the portions of documents cited in fair use by participating researchers. We are working to make citation easy for human researchers and readers to use, and to encourage, by example, best practices in using semantic XHTML to mark up the passages of printed documents that we transcribe.

We put texts online in the hopes that they will be enjoyable, and useful to readers and researchers. If you benefit from the work that has gone into the Fair Use Repository, one way you can support the project is with a one-time or an automatic monthly donation. I have a small annual budget of costs for technical services and labor that are necessary to keep fair-use.org online and operating. Donations allow this site to remain reader-supported. Otherwise, I have to rely on the (very small) amount of revenue that I get through Google ads to help keep up with the site's expenses. So, for what it's worth, if you donate, then one side benefit is that it helps you and me free ourselves from ad clutter. Every month that I receive at least $10.00 in gifts, I can (and will happily) take down the Google ads for one month (from date that the total for that month hits $10.00). If you're interested in helping get the ads taken down permanently, be sure to check out the section below on setting up an annual gift or monthly pledge.

If you would like to support this project, you can make a secure online donation using PayPal:

So far, your donations have covered $0.00 of our annual budget of $7,660.99

Sustaining Pledges

The most effective way for you to support the Fair Use Repository is to establish an automatic gift. Annual or monthly contributions provide money that I can count on to meet regular operating expenses and to budget for future needs. You can set up an annual donation or a monthly contribution through PayPal. Everything's painlessly automatic; you can, of course, choose to cancel at any time.

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My bills

This is a rough estimate of the expenses of maintaining the fair-use.org website together with a modest estimation of the basic living expenses involved in sustaining the home office and labor for building, maintaining, and expanding the Fair Use Repository. Rather than try to calculate an operating budget per se for the website (which would require some basically arbitrary guesses at how to assign a wage to the labor that goes into transcriptions and development), I have simply set my fundraising goal at self-sustenance: the purpose is to make it possible to sustain fair-use.org without worrying about bills, housing or food.

Primary domain registration
fair-use.org
$8.99 / year
Primary bandwidth provider
Connection, 5 static IPs
$120/month $1,440.00 / year
Backup bandwidth provider
For load balancing and failsafe mechanism.
$56 / month $672.00 / year
Server maintenance and upgrades $100.00 / year
Rent
Home office, server space
$350 / month $4,200.00 / year
Gas and Electric
Averaged out over 12 month period
$85 / month $1,020.00 / year
Meals
Even a monk in the Scriptorium has to eat.
$10 / week $520.00 / year
Total fundraising goal $7,660.99