Why is Harvard considering doing the larger project with Google? [PS: Harvard is currently letting Google digitize 40,000 volumes in pilot project. The larger project could encompass Harvard's 15 million volumes.]
The larger project has the promise of enormous benefit to the Harvard community, the larger scholarly community, and the general public. For users outside of Harvard, the larger project would make accessible the full text of a large number of public-domain books. It would also make the copyrighted portion of the Harvard collection searchable. Including works from the vast Harvard library collection in an information location tool available on the Internet would greatly expand the scope and quality of information available to a worldwide audience of knowledge-seekers.
(Thanks to Jon Ippolito.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/14/2004 01:36:00 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.
