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Univ. of California to Digitize Libraries Via Google Book Search

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 9, 2006 - 1:14pm.
Mountain View, Calif. - Google announced on Wednesday that the University of California has joined its Google Book Search project, which will digitize books from libraries at UC and fellow partners including the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library, and Stanford, Harvard and Oxford universities. "The digitization project furthers UC's mission," said UC president Robert C. Dynes. "It greatly expands our ability to give scholars and the public access to the kinds of information and ideas that drive scholarly innovation and public knowledge and discourse." Google Book Search will provide free browsing and online reading of public domain books held by partner libraries, while for copyrighted works users will get information such as title and author's name, along with a short sample of text and information on where to borrow or purchase the book. Publishers and authors can also opt out of including their works in the search index. However, some authors believe that they should instead be contacted for permission before their works are included, and groups including the Association of American Publishers and Authors Guild have sued Google for copyright infringement over the digitization project.

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug09.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/welcome-to-university-of-california.html
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,71564-0.html (AP)
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