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Saturday, January 22, 2005

Oxford and Mellon cancel book-digitizing project

Oxford University Press and the Mellon Foundation have scrapped their plans for Project Torch (The Online Resource Center in the Humanities), a project to digitize backlist scholarly monographs. The Google library project was one reason to cancel the project. Another may have been that Philip Friedman, who led Project Torch since last May, moved to Harper Collins on January 18.