... "The [University of Illinois] has been digitizing books for 10 years, but only in the last three years have we done it on a really large scale," said Betsy Kruger, the librarian who heads the UI's digitizing work.
The UI effort is up to 15,000 volumes now.
To get some idea of what's at Illinois Harvest, the UI collection, and its collaboration with the nationwide Open Content Alliance, there are 686 books on Lincoln and the Civil War. ...
In the last four weeks, the collection has increased by 205 online volumes. That effort will ramp up in the near future when money from a Google grant to pay human scanners comes through, Kruger said. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 4/15/2009 06:14:00 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.
