University Libraries digitizes thousands of books for Google Books project | University Libraries | University of Colorado Boulder

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Summary:

"In 2019, the University Libraries began a partnership with Google Books and HaithiTrust Digital Library to create digital copies that will preserve and improve access to difficult to find and rare materials in our collections. Since then the Libraries have sent 92 thousand items to be digitized, which we estimate have saved the Libraries $9 million if we digitized the materials ourselves...."

Link:

https://libraries.colorado.edu/2024/10/15/university-libraries-digitizes-thousands-books-google-books-project

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.u.colorado oa.libraries oa.digitization oa.books oa.google.books oa.hathi oa.preservation

Date tagged:

10/23/2024, 10:10

Date published:

10/23/2024, 06:10