Tara Calishain, Google Print, Google Print, Argh Argh Argh, ResearchBuzz, October 6, 2004. Tara asks two great questions. Excerpt: "What's the procedure for universities and other institutions which already have books indexed online? How can they add their books to the Google Print index? A Google rep tells me there's no program for those institutions at this time. There is a program for publishers to add content but nothing else at the moment....The second question is 'How is Project Ocean doing?' You may remember a reference in the February New York Times to Project Ocean. Lisnews has a good quote and rundown: 'And Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation. With the cooperation of Stanford University, the company now plans to digitize the entire collection of the vast Stanford Library published before 1923, which is no longer limited by copyright restrictions.'...Can you imagine what such a collection would do to something like Google Print? When I asked the Google rep about this, though, they pointed out that the article was speculation, and they don't comment on speculation. Okay." (PS: For the original mention of Project Ocean, see John Markoff's story in the 2/1/04 New York Times. The idea was to digitize all the public-domain books in the Stanford Library and then, presumably, provide OA to the texts or at least full-text Google searching.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/07/2004 09:13:00 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.
