Holtzbrinck Group, the parent company of scientific and business journal publisher Macmillan is to develop a searchable online repository for digital book content, which will be made available to other publishering companies. The facility, provisionally called BookStore, will offer services ranging from a basic digital storage facility to branded "interfaces" for e-commerce. Publishers will then be able to sell their material in various digital formats to users, and will have the option of making content accessible to search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Germany based Holtzbrinck hopes it will appeal to trade publishers that are keen to exploit digital opportunities, but are loathe to invest heavily in proprietary systems or to surrender control of copyright material - a point of issue with Google....The plans were welcomed by Google Print . Senior product manager Adam Smith said: "We are pleased to see publishers moving more into the digital environment, and welcome all efforts to make more content digital and searchable."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/20/2005 12:35:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
