Google quietly launchedGoogle Print yesterday. Still in beta, Google Print offers free full-text searching of participating print books and other print sources. Publishers cooperate for the exposure, for the links to publisher home pages, and for the "buy this book" links to online vendors. It also helps that Google will digitize the books at its own expense. If your Google search brings up a print book among the hits, you can browse a page or two of the book centered on the searchstring, but no more. You can also limit a search to the text of a given book. Google says it has disabled printing and image-copying when browsing book pages, but we'll see how long that lasts.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/06/2004 10:00:00 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.
