Craig Morris, German book industry plans its own full-text search online for books in German, Heise Online, May 26, 2005. Excerpt: 'The Börsenverein of the German book industry, representing some 6,500 publishers, bookstores, second-hand book sellers, wholesalers, and publishing agents, is getting ready to set up its own platform for a full-text search in the Internet. As a reaction to such current offers as Google Print, Amazon's "Look Inside the Book", and the digitalization and networking efforts of European libraries, the new industry platform called "Volltextsuche online" is to provide central access to digital files containing the complete text of books in German.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/26/2005 10:38:00 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.
