The University of Michigan Press is joining with HathiTrust Digital Library to open electronic content for free online access. U-M Press plans to have 1,000 or more titles available for full viewing by the end of this year. ...
HathiTrust links to the U-M Press site allow for fast online purchasing. ...
U-M Press has had a "Look Inside" feature on its own book Web pages for several years. ...
[The "Look Inside" tool] currently contains thousands of table-of-contents and sample chapter views, with more than 100 complete titles available for full viewing and hundreds more complete titles planned for full view by the end of 2009. ...
There are currently about 350 OA titles in the press' HathiTrust collection. At present, only some titles have a link to buy a print copy, but all titles have a link to find a copy in a library. Some titles bear a "Digitized by Google" watermark.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/13/2009 08:33:00 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.
