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
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[mailto:wikipedia-library-bounces@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