Microsoft has moved further into searching copyright material with its Windows Live Books Publisher Program. Launched in May, the program will be expanded within the coming weeks to accept submissions in digital form, in addition to the print material currently being processed. This follows Microsoft’s recent move into searching copyrighted content within journals with the Windows Live Academic Search service.
Microsoft has worked hard to avoid the barrage of criticism Google faced when it launched the Google Books Library project to digitise copyright material. Microsoft’s Clifford Guren, director of partner evangelism, Windows Live Books, said: “To be clear, we are only scanning and indexing in-copyright books with the expressed permission of the rights holder.”...
Book publishers have responded positively to Microsoft’s latest initiative. [Elsevier will participate.]...Gwenyth Jones, vice president of publishing information systems and technologies at John Wiley & Sons, also expressed interest in working on Books Publisher: “Search engines can provide an important service to end users.”
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/17/2006 08:55:00 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.
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.
