November 11, 2005
Microsoft Joins Digital-Library Consortium
With a $5-million commitment, Microsoft's MSN Search division is joining universities and its online-search rival Yahoo in a consortium dedicated to scanning millions of public-domain books. The company's pledge will pay for the scanning of 150,000 volumes.
The consortium, called the Open Content Alliance, was announced three weeks ago. Since then, 14 more universities have also joined, promising to contribute money, books, or services to the project. The original members of the
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