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Information Today February 25, 2010 Barbara Quint |
19th-Century Books From The British Library on Kindle for Free Last year, Microsoft completed its digitization obligations to The British Library and handed over 25 million pages in 65,000 19th-century books.  |
Information Today November 17, 2015 |
The British Library Plans to Digitize Indian Texts The British Library announced Two Centuries of Indian Print, a pilot project for the major digitization program of its Indian books dating from 1714 to 1914.  |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.  |
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.  |
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis.  |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.  |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.  |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Brian Lavoie |
Beyond 1923 Characteristics of potentially in-copyright print books in library collections.  |
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries?  |
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.  |
Information Today June 5, 2008 Barbara Quint |
`It Ain't Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown Although the announcement of Microsoft's decision to shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects seemed to indicate that the program would cease digitizing immediately, conversations with participating libraries indicated otherwise.  |
Information Today November 21, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments.  |
Information Today October 2, 2006 Robin Peek |
The British Library Releases Intellectual Property Manifesto The British Library released a document called "Intellectual Property: A Balance - The British Library Manifesto," which tackles increasingly unforgiving intellectual property laws.  |
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project.  |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines.  |
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library.  |
Information Today March 13, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it.  |
D-Lib August 2009 Tanner et al. |
Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive  |
Information Today December 2005 Dick Kaser |
War and Peace What will Google's project yield if the pending legal actions halt the digitization of anything other than books in the public domain?  |
Information Today July 19, 2010 |
LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to Offer Expanded Microfilm Scanning Services LYRASIS' Mass Digitization Collaborative enables members to digitize books, serials, and newspapers for a low fee. LYRASIS is the nation's largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals.  |
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.  |
InternetNews August 31, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Extends Book Scanning Operation In the face of increasing protests from publishers, Google affirms its intention to go back to scanning books under copyright.  |
Information Today August 29, 2013 |
Researchers Granted Access to Digitized Malay Manuscripts The British Library recently signed an agreement with the National Library Board Singapore so researchers can access the BL's Malay manuscript collection for free online.  |
Information Today February 5, 2009 |
Cornell University Library Expands POD on Amazon Expanding an ongoing partnership with Amazon.com, Cornell University Library is increasing its print-on-demand (POD) offerings to more than 80,000 titles.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Donnie Summerlin |
Selecting Newspaper Titles for Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia This case study examines the Digital Library of Georgia's newspaper digitization selection process and how it incorporates national standards with its own project-specific criteria.  |
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement.  |
Information Today May 23, 2011 |
National Library of France Embarks on Huge Digitization Project The BnF, the National Library of France, has signed a new deal with the Jouve-Safig-Diadeis partnership for the digitization of its print collections.  |
Information Today February 7, 2013 Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access.  |
D-Lib May 2003 Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history  |
Information Today June 26, 2008 Barbara Quint |
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program.  |
Information Today October 7, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations.  |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.  |
Information Today September 22, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects  |
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc.  |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Kulovits et al. |
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings.  |
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google.  |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Michael J. Miller |
Our Best Products of the Year Major improvements to most electronics, but not in the area of security... Google's Print Library Project... Web applications are the hottest trend in software...  |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories.  |
Information Today September 10, 2009 |
Rare Sound Recordings Now Available Free Online The British Library has made nearly 28,000 rare music and sound recordings from its massive collection, reputed to be one of the largest sound archives in the world, available for free online  |
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders...  |
Information Today September 12, 2011 George H. Pike |
Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws.  |
D-Lib March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir |
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2015 |
In Brief and In the News The PERICLES Extraction Tool: Significant Environment Information Collection to Support Object Reuse... Jisc Digital Media Supporting Digitization Projects... The Avalon Media System...  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 Dahlstrom & Doracic |
Digitization Education: Courses Taken and Lessons Learned The aims and nature of cultural heritage (CH) digitization education at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), accompanied with a brief overview of Nordic CH digitization education efforts.  |
D-Lib February 2008 Edwin Klijn |
The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective The market and technology adjust to accommodate the trend of newspaper collection digitization by libraries.  |
Information Today February 13, 2006 Miriam A. Drake |
University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge.  |