Google's New Deals Promise to Realize a 60-Year-Old Vision

This is huge. Or is it? Google has announced plans to turn its formidable indexing powers on the entire corpus of traditional academic output.

Last month Google signed deals with five of the world's largest libraries to scan vast portions of their book holdings and add them to the Google database, which was originally designed to index only information...

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