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Google's book-scanning efforts trigger philosophical debate. Boston Herald, Dec. 20, 2006
Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google Inc.'s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world's books, art and historical documents.
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U. of Virginia Joins Google's Book-Scanning Project. Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 14, 2006
Following hot on the heels of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which joined Google's ambitious library-digitization effort last month, the University of Virginia has signed on to the project.
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Search Me? Washington Post, Aug. 13, 2006
Google Wants to Digitize Every Book. Publishers Say Read the Fine Print First.
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Publishers call for library digitisation boycott at Book Fair. Information World Review, Mar. 10, 2006
Bloomsbury CEO calls on publishers at London Book Fair to boycott Google until it ends library digitisation project.
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Gorman slams digitisation. Information World Review, Jan. 2006
The article focuses on the issue concerning the digitisation of scholarly texts. Michael Gorman, head of the American Library Association, has criticized the digitisation project of Google.
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A Risky Gamble With Google. Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 2, 2005
Google's Library Project is a risky deal for libraries, researchers, academics, and the public in general. However, it's actually not a bad deal for publishers and authors, despite their protestations.
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A Man's vision: world library online. San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 22, 2005
His vision is helping shape the debate over how a book library should reside on the Internet. His idealistic yet pragmatic approach -- providing free digital access to works in the public domain -- could be a bridge to detente in the war between publishers and Google Inc.
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At Harvard, a Man, a Plan and a Scanner. New York Times, Nov. 21, 2005
Mr. Verba is overseeing the university's partnership with Google, which plans to create searchable digital copies of entire collections-tens of millions of books-at five leading research libraries.
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Publishers Sue Google Over Plans To Digitize Books. Association of American Publishers, Oct. 19, 2005
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners.
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Yahoo Works With 2 Academic Libraries and Other Archives on Project to Digitize Collections. The Chronicle for Higher Education, Oct. 3, 2005
Another search engine company has joined with academic libraries to digitize large collections of books to make them easily searchable online. Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with the University of California, the University of Toronto, and several archives and technology companies on a project that could potentially bring the complete texts of millions of volumes into digital form.
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Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, Sept. 2005
The project has been vigorously debated on discussion lists and blogs, with the participating libraries commonly referred to as "the Google 5". This article offers some perspectives on GPLP in light of what is known about library print book collections in general, and those of the Google 5 in particular, from information in OCLC's WorldCat bibliographic database and holdings file.
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Copyright questions surround issue of putting libraries online. Houston Business Journal, July 1, 2005
Ideally, digitized copies of books are helpful to libraries in case a book is lost or there is a fire, says Troy Williams, founder and CEO of Questia Media Inc., a Houston-based company that offers an online academic library on a subscription basis for social science and humanities books. However, he says publishing companies and associations feel Google has not explained how it will make available online snippets of books that are still under copyright.
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A Google Project Pains Publishers. BusinessWeek Online, May 23, 2005
The major presses are raising thorny legal issues with the search giant's initiative to digitize the books of the world's great libraries.
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The Infinite Library. Technology Review, May 2005
The digitization of the world's enormous store of library books-an effort dating to the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere-has been a slow, expensive, and underfunded process.
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Google Out of Print. Library Journal, Mar. 15, 2005
Since Google announced its initiative to digitize all, or major portions, of the book collections in select research libraries, I've struggled to figure out what to think of it (see "Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database"). This is so difficult, in part, because we have so little information.
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Harvard-Google Project Faces Copyright Woes. Harvard Crimson, Mar. 15, 2005
Three months after undertaking an ambitious project to digitize thousands of books, Harvard University Library (HUL) and the Google Print project are facing scrutiny from publishing organizations, who claim the project may infringe copyright law.
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How Google will scan the world, 1 book at a time.
Chicago Tribune, Feb. 25, 2005
As Google prepares to create the world's most comprehensive digital library, it's getting harder not to think of the company as the next Microsoft, morphing from a friendly Internet helper with a cutesy name into an awesome and inescapable force of digital nature.
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Google Online Book Plan Sparks French War of Words. Reuters, Feb. 18, 2005
France's national library has raised a "war cry" over plans by Google to put books from some of the world's great libraries on the Internet and wants to ensure the project does not lead a domination of American ideas.
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What's Next for Google.
Technology Review, Jan. 2005
This article focuses on the fight between Google and Microsoft in controlling the organization, search, and retrieval of all digital information, on all types of digital devices as of January 2005.
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Google's Gigantic Library Project. Earlham University Newsletter, Jan. 2, 2005
Just as we were digesting the impact of Google Scholar we had to start digesting Google's new and much larger project to digitize at least 15 million print books for free full-text searching and, in some cases, free full-text reading.
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Google's Two Revolutions. Newsweek, Dec. 27, 2004
Comments of Google founder Larry Page on the development of a digital library.
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Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions. Information Today, Dec. 27, 2004
Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program.
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Google Checks Out Library Books. Google Inc. Press Release, Dec. 14, 2004
The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library Join with Google to Digitally Scan Library Books and Make Them Searchable Online.
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Google Brings Libraries into Cyber-Age. CNN, Dec.14, 2004
The old library card catalogue took a step further into cyberspace , with Google and the libraries of four universities and the city of New York announcing a partnership with the potential to make millions of books available and searchable online.
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The Digital Library: Its Future Has Arrived. Carnegie Report, v. 2, no. 3, Fall 2003
The dawning of the digital age is having an effect on your local library-and on libraries around the world, as well.
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