August 8, 2007
Cornell U. Joins Google Book-Scan Plan
Cornell University’s library has joined the Google Book Search project. The university announced today that the search company will digitize up to 500,000 works from its collections and make them available online. There, Internet users can find and read them using Google Book Search.
Cornell will let Google scan both public-domain and copyrighted documents. If there are no copyright restrictions, the full text will go online. If a book is copyrighted, viewers will only be able to see information such as the title and author’s name, and perhaps a few lines of text related to their search, as well as information about where they can borrow or buy the material.
Read more here about universities that have joined the Google project. —Josh Fischman
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Cornell University has a long standing reputation for innovation and change. Having a full text available for the public domain is absolutely fantastic. What a valuable contribution to help researchers both nationally and internationally to add to the exisiting body of knowledge.
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
Professor
PhD Program in Educational Leadership
Prairie View A&M University
Member of the Texas A&M University System
The Whitlowe R. Green College of Education
Editor-in-Chief
NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS
— William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Aug 9, 10:47 AM #
And does Cornell get a digital copy of the scanned work if it is copyrighted? If so, what does it plan to do with it?
— Sandy Thatcher Aug 10, 09:25 AM #
Sandy Thatcher is right; copyright is clearly involved. Google needs to resolve this in court.
— Alan Unsworth Aug 13, 01:47 PM #
3. Sandy Thatcher is right; copyright is clearly involved. Google needs to resolve this in court.
— Alan Unsworth Aug 13, 01:51 PM #