What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books? | EdSurge News

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-08-11

Summary:

"It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries."

Link:

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-s-effort-to-scan-millions-of-university-library-books

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.google oa.google.books oa.industry oa.books oa.litigation oa.copyright oa.digitization oa.images oa.hathi oa.libraries oa.accessibility oa.google.settlement oa.dpla

Date tagged:

08/11/2017, 12:53

Date published:

08/11/2017, 08:53