Google Book Search Adds the Badgers
Amit Chowdhry | Monday October 16, 2006 | 1,876 Views |Categorized under , Google
 
As Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Book Search project continues to gain support, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (whose mascot is the Badgers) announced that they will be teaming up with the search engine juggernaut. The University of Wisconsin is the 8th library to be signed on with the Google Book Search project. The University of Wisconsin joins the other prestigous organizations and universities, University of California, University Complutense of Madrid, Harvard University, University of Michigan, The New York Public Library, Oxford University, and Stanford University.
The value-added contributions that UW-Madison will provide includes the Wisconsin Historical Society which contains a major collection of historical materials in the United States. The Association of Research Libraries in Washington, D.C. has rated this collection as the #11th best in the United States.
In order to comply with copyright laws, Google will only provide basic information of the books that are protected and scan the full-text of books that are free of copyright law for public use. Many of the books that were published before 1923 do not contain such copyright laws which permits Google and UW-Madison to get them online. Not only that, but Google will also scan historical Wisconsin materials which includes art and genealogical charts.
[Source: Technology News Daily]
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