Univ. of Madrid Library Texts Added to Google Book-Scanning Project

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 26, 2006 - 1:39am.

London - Google announced on Tuesday that the University of Madrid has agreed to add titles from its Compultense library -- which houses 3 million works -- to Google's controversial project that aims to scan every book in print into a searchable index. While the New York Public Library, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the Universities of California and Michigan have also signed on to the project, Google is facing a copyright infringement suit from a number of publishers' and authors' associations, who claim Google doesn't have the right to use their works. Google has said it will only publish public domain works in their entirety in the index, and that only a few pages from works currently under copyright will be included. The agreement with the University of Madrid marks the first non-English-speaking library to be added to the project.
http://tinyurl.com/jhg3o (Reuters)
http://www.ucm.es/UCMD.html
http://books.google.com/googleprint/library.html