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Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books. |
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project. |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects. |
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Pens New Search Chapter Google unveiled an ambitious plan to bring information locked away in print form in libraries into its searchable index. |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
InternetNews October 18, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Extends Print Further into Europe Google expanded its Google Print service, launching book-specific search services in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain. |
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
InternetNews May 27, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Goes Live Google opened the door to its online library with the launch of Print.Google.Com, a book-specific search page. |
Search Engine Watch May 4, 2005 Gary Price |
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer look at getting the most from online book search services. |
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
InternetNews October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Hits The Fan The Association of American Publishers said it's suing Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners. |
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Another Google Gaffe? Google has a big mission in organizing the world's information, and it takes more than good technology to do that. Till the company proves it understands this, it doesn't deserve your hard-earned investing dollars. |
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions 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. Here are some answers, too. |
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection. |
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google. |
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson |
The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever. |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google. |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 |
Bits & Bites v24n23 Carnegie Mellon University and German researchers have shown a system for real-time translation from one language to another... Google has taken a significant step forward with its controversial Google Print database... etc. |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2005 Rich Duprey |
Google Searches the Classics Search engine's ambitious plans to digitize the works of three libraries raises copyright worries. |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Michael J. Miller |
Our Best Products of the Year Major improvements to most electronics, but not in the area of security... Google's Print Library Project... Web applications are the hottest trend in software... |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines. |
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Jumps on Book Search Wagon MSN hopped into the literary fray on Tuesday, announcing its intention to launch MSN Book Search in 2006. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both. |
InternetNews August 31, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Extends Book Scanning Operation In the face of increasing protests from publishers, Google affirms its intention to go back to scanning books under copyright. |
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement. |
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
Information Today June 18, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Has a Busy Week In the first week of June, Google Book Search adds a 12-university consortium, and deals with stolen laptops and competitors. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 Barbara Quint |
"Hundreds of Titles," "Dozens of Publishers"--Magazines Going Into Google Book Search As Google Book Search turns more and more into what might be better named "Google Library" (or even "Everyone's Library"), it has expanded to include magazines. |
InternetNews September 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Goes to Europe Book publishers in five European companies can opt in to Google's Print Publishers Program. The indexed book content will be searchable via Google Book Search or regular Web search in all versions of Google. |
Information Today March 20, 2008 Michael LoPresti |
Google Books Reaches Out With New API Google announced the release of a new application programming interface (API) that enables external websites to connect directly to any of the texts in the Google Book Search index. |
Information Today October 9, 2006 Susanne Bjorner |
Google Library Project Expands to Spain The Universidad Complutense Madrid has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program. |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2005 Gary Price |
More Online Books Resources NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online books, offering access free of charge. |
Searcher January 2006 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk. |
Information Today October 27, 2003 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database. |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
Information Today June 26, 2008 Barbara Quint |
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
Information Today December 2005 Dick Kaser |
War and Peace What will Google's project yield if the pending legal actions halt the digitization of anything other than books in the public domain? |
Searcher March 2007 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - To the Ozone and Beyond In the course of research for an article on the experiences of the libraries involved in Google Book Search, a story emerged. |