Reminds me of the Gutenberg Project - that's where you go if you want to
read George Bush's (senior) presidential address or look up the
constitution of Peru. What's the difference? There must be some.
C. Johnston
--On 20 December 2004 12:15 +0000 Andrew Buxton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As ever, it appears that Copyright is the controlling factor. As I
> understand it, only non-copyright materials will be made available, i.e.
> stuff that's at least 70 years old. How much of your library's demand is
> for material that old?
>
> Andrew Buxton
> IDS, Brighton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lindsay [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 20 December 2004 12:14
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Google and infopolecon
>
>
> Rather surprised there has been no comment on this list about the deal
> done between google and a variety of academic libraries... It had nearly
> a full page in the FT last week, and I call anything which is about
> libraries and a full page in the FT important.
>
> I'm not clear on the business model, but as with JSTOR, I see this a
> significant shift in the access, content regulation, topics of WSIS and an
> important part of the development of the political economy of information.
> My thanks for comments on JSTOT, now I'm looking for one on google case :)
>
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