My understanding in speaking with Jeremy York at HathiTrust several months
ago is that *even* public domain content is subject to additional
restrictions by the uploading institutions and therefore wouldn't be
available to us either. That only leaves the OA collection, which is
separate and already accessible.
Jake
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:29 AM Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm(a)oclc.org>
wrote:
Use the HathiTrust. This works for books scanned
through libraries (via
Google and also Microsoft/Internet Archive, which was a smaller project but
one which targeted out of copyright books) and deposited in HathiTrust,
which isn’t everything but attempt to do a more nuanced job with out of
copyright materials than Google currently does (Hathi has been working to
check copyright renewals for the 1923 to 196x period and also clears gov
docs, which Google does not do).
http://www.hathitrust.org/
Merrilee
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
*From:* wikipedia-library-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikipedia-library-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Tim
Davenport
*Sent:* Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:12 AM
*To:* wikipedia-library(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* [Wikipedia Library] Google Books
Perhaps a more attainable goal would be for Wikipedians to gain access to
books NOT UNDER COPYRIGHT that Google has scanned and restricted. Pretty
much everything 1922 and earlier they have been good about making public
(1908 and earlier for the UK) but there are a vast number of titles which
are copyright clear for this reason or that for the 1923 to 1973 period
that they have hidden behind "snippet view." There is absolutely no
plausible copyright reason for them acting thus and that case might be made
much more easily than a dubious appeal to release files of copyrighted
materials because Wikipedians are on the side of the angels.
Just a thought.
Tim Davenport
Corvallis, OR
"Carrite" on WP
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