February 8, 2002
12 Universities Begin Project to Deliver Academic E-Books
Academic libraries and university presses at Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago have teamed up in an electronic-publishing venture that aims to put hundreds of scholarly books in digital form.
In December, leaders of the 12 participating universities in the longtime consortium committed a total of up to $100,000 to develop a prototype for the joint e-publishing venture, said Tom Peters, director of the consortium's Center for Library Initiatives. The institutions have
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