Google’s ambitious book-scanning project may be the talk of the publishing world, but some college librarians are more excited by the Open Content Alliance, a similar endeavor led by Brewster Kahle, director of the nonprofit Internet Archive. In the inaugural installation of The Chronicle’s new weekly podcast series, Mr. Kahle offers a progress report on his project and outlines his vision for the future of digital libraries.
While Google imposes some usage restrictions on the works it scans from college libraries, the Open Content Alliance aims to keep its scanned material squarely in the public domain. “The idea is to build an open repository for researchers to do great work in the future,” he says.
