Laura Hartenberger, Google library returns no hits for Yale's books, The Yale Herald, January 14, 2005. Excerpt: 'Since October, excerpts from thousands of books from the world's largest libraries have been loaded onto the world's most popular search engine --but none of them have come from Yale....Although Yale is not among the schools involved in the project, its students stand to benefit from it by accessing certain online texts, and more generally, by having the prospect of a more unified university library community. Yale's Associate University Librarian, Ann Okerson, is content with Yale's currently passive role in the book digitization project. She views Google Print as a sign of cooperation between universities that could lead to future projects, potentially including Yale. "The fact that other peer institutions were able to come to agreement [with Google] signals that there can be a meeting of minds on digitization collaborations," she said. Though Okerson anticipates that Yale will contribute in some way to this online pooling of library resources in the future, she acknowledges that "it's too soon to know."'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/15/2005 02:02:00 PM.
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.
