Hathi/Google/Duke

["James J. O'Donnell" <jod@georgetown.edu>]

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.