Thousands of pages from one of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals are to be made available on the internet.
The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century.
It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library http://www.bl.uk/ and Google bookshttp://books.google.co.uk/websites.
More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13836332
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2011/6/20 Shiju Alex shijualexonline@gmail.com:
Thousands of pages from one of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals are to be made available on the internet.
The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century.
It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites.
More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13836332
I think this news is relevant to wikisource also.
Why?
As I also wrote on the cultural-partners list, it is not clear if they are making a deal about digitising other books or making avalable books they already have.
What do you understand?
Aubrey
2011/6/20 Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com:
2011/6/20 Shiju Alex shijualexonline@gmail.com:
Thousands of pages from one of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals are to be made available on the internet.
The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century.
It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites.
More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13836332
I think this news is relevant to wikisource also.
Why?
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Andrea Zanni, 20/06/2011 17:39:
As I also wrote on the cultural-partners list, it is not clear if they are making a deal about digitising other books or making avalable books they already have.
What do you understand?
It should be the first one, otherwise there would be no gain for the British Library; as far as I remember (from the discussions about the deal between Italy and Google), Google doesn't even propose such "partnerships". It could be a mix of the two things, though, because usually Google wouldn't scan everything you have and want, but perhaps if you give them some scans you have already they might be more generous elsewhere. This is just guessing...
Nemo
Other link mentioned elsewhere (not read yet): http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_british_library_truluv4evr.php
Nemo
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