November 18, 2005

Google Adds First Scanned Library Books to Search Index, and Says Copyrighted Works Will Follow

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Google has entered the initial batch of scanned books to its searchable online index, the first fruits of the company's controversial partnership with five major research libraries.

The Library Project, part of the company's Google Print program, has been digitizing books for nearly a year in an arrangement with Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Oxford, in England, as well as the New York Public Library. Until now, though,