Re: Hathi/Google/Duke

[<jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca>]

Great news.

This is essentially what OAPEN has been doing in Europe for the 
last three years.

Jean-Claude Guedon


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De: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu de la part de James J. O'Donnell
Date: lun. 12/09/2011 19:36
Objet : Hathi/Google/Duke

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Duke University 
Press has struck an arrangement with HathiTrust and Google to 
digitize a large number of its backlist files and to make them 
freely available.  They speak of as many as a thousand titles for 
possible inclusion, to be made available under Creative Commons 
for free noncommercial use. "There's not much of a market for... 
books about Carter-administration housing policy, or Irish 
elections in the early 1980s."  Print-on-demand will be available 
as well.  Google provides the scanning, Hathi the housing, and 
Duke secures the authors' permissions.

The full article is behind the paywall at

http://chronicle.com/article/HathiTrustGoogle-Will/128949/

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown U.