Emily Hagedorn, Google's plan to put books online will boost libraries' exposure, Tallahasee Democrat, January 6, 2004. Excerpt: 'Carol Pitts Diedrichs hopes that Google's new program to put thousands of texts online will drive readers back to where they once started: the library...."People don't sit at a computer and read a book much," Diedrichs said. "What we hope it will do is drive users to us to use our collections." ...Google users can also see which books are at 23,000 libraries through Online Computer Library Center's WorldCat catalog, the world's largest bibliographic database. That non-profit, computer library service turned WorldCat's entire database over to Google, said Wendy McGinnis, the center's director of communication and public relations. This means that with each book search, a tab will pop up, directing the user to find that book in a local library....Stephen Wrinn's expectations take Diedrichs's a step further. As director of the University Press of Kentucky, Wrinn is putting excerpts from some of the press's books online through Google, expecting that it will bump up sales. The catch: Googlers won't be able to print or copy and paste the information from their site. "The whole thing hinges on the fact they can't reproduce," said Wrinn. All of the press's 850 titles will be online at some point, said Leila Salisbury, University Press's marketing director.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/06/2005 11:27:00 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.
