Barbara Quint has corrected some of her earlier accounts of the Google Print project. At the same time she gives details missing from every other account that I've seen to date. Excerpt:
Google does not supply participants in the Google Print program with digital, “e-book” versions of the print books digitized from publisher inventories or library collections. Publishers receive no digital copies of any kind. The five giant research libraries working with Google Print for Libraries do receive digital page images and text files representing the OCR (optical character recognition) of the text. However, these are not anything like e-books, e.g., PDF downloadable files.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/29/2005 12:40:00 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.
