Google joins effort to put millions of books online, Hackensack Record, January 18, 2005. An unsigned news story on some of the large, fully-OA book digitization projects getting less publicity than the Google project. Excerpt: '[Google] announced an audacious plan last month to digitize millions of books, including the entire holdings of the University of Michigan and Stanford University, significantly increasing the amount of information available online -- and making the Internet a far more authoritative source for scholars and high school students alike. But for all the hoopla generated by Google Print, the Universal Library and other low-profile projects -- Project Gutenberg, the Electronic Text Center, the Internet Archive -- have been quietly pursuing the same goal for years. And though Google will scan far more books, these other projects are considerably less stingy with the content of their e-books. "Our objective is to ultimately take the works of man... digitize it and make it free to everybody," said Michael Shamos, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, which created the Universal Library.' (Thanks to Gary Price in SearchDay.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/20/2005 09:30:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
