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October 14, 2005

Yahoo Works With Academic Libraries on a New Project to Digitize Books

By SCOTT CARLSON and JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Another search-engine company has joined with academic libraries to digitize large collections of books to make them easily searchable online. Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with the University of California system, the University of Toronto, and several archives and technology companies on a project that could potentially bring the complete texts of millions of volumes into digital form.

Yahoo officials say that the project is not a response to Google's partnership with five major research

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