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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.   |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2004
Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
InternetNews
December 6, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Microsoft Betas Book Search Microsoft announced that will release the beta version of its Live Search Books application tomorrow. |
Information Today
December 2005
Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
Information Today
November 21, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2005
Gary Price |
A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online. |
InternetNews
November 1, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books. |
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. |
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
October 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Yahoo Leads Literary Charge The Internet giant heads a consortium set on digitizing hundreds of thousands of books and technical papers and making them available on the Web for almost universal access. The consortium will use an opt-in policy for publishers that has plagued Google's similar effort. |
Information Today
October 31, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Expands Rapidly; Reveals Operational Details Just a few weeks after its launch, the Open Content Alliance has already added dozens of new members to its Open Library project. |
InternetNews
October 27, 2005 |
Open Content Alliance: The World's Books For All International group of research libraries bands together to provide open online access to the world's books. |
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
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? |
Information Today
July 2, 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Ingram Digital and Microsoft Join in an Alliance Microsoft Corp. and Ingram Digital Group have signed an agreement whereby Microsoft's Live Search Books program will outsource high-volume scanning and digital management services to the Ingram Digital Group. |
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
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. |
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. |
Information Today
September 29, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Search Inside the Google Book With the Google Book Search Preview Wizard The new Preview Wizard from Google installs a set of customizable software tools embedding book information from the Google Book Search Index. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
October 3, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Gets Burned Big questions remain unanswered about digital media's future. Google's battles to get its hands on copyrighted content may ultimately carry a hefty financial price for its shareholders. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
June 5, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Shuts Down Two of Its Google `Wannabe's': Live Search Books and Live Search Academic The reason for the cancellation was money or the lack of it. Microsoft could not foresee a sustainable business model for the service. |
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. |
Information Today
February 13, 2006
Miriam A. Drake |
University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge. |
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. |
Information Today
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
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... |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
February 7, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
Information Today
June 5, 2008
Barbara Quint |
`It Ain't Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown Although the announcement of Microsoft's decision to shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects seemed to indicate that the program would cease digitizing immediately, conversations with participating libraries indicated otherwise. |
Information Today
November 3, 2003
Barbara Quint |
'Search Inside the Book': Full-Text on Amazon Tapping into over 33 million pages from over 120,000 non-fiction and fiction titles supplied by over 190 publishers, Amazon.com has launched a major online access service to the full text of publications. |
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. |
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. |
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
September 15, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive. |
Wired
December 2003
Gary Wolf |
The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting. Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever. |
