Quoting Tom Breen in the August 8 Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Connecticut):
The Web search engine Google recently announced ambitious plans to create a free digital library. As a first step, the company entered into a partnership with top research libraries, including those of Harvard and Oxford universities, to digitize their entire collections. However, a storm of controversy soon followed over concerns about copyright violation, and Google is now planning to offer only material already in the public domain, according to a company spokesman.
(PS: I haven't seen the claim in the last sentence confirmed anywhere else. Since Breen doesn't name or quote his source, and since other media are not telling the same story, for now I'm assuming that Breen made a mistake.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/10/2005 10:36:00 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.
