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International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access Text Archives

(Via ResourceShelf) The Internet Archive announced yesterday that a number of international libraries have committed to putting their digitized books in open-access archives, starting with one at the Internet Archive. Over one million books have been committed to the Text Archive. Currently over twenty-seven thousand are available and an additional fifty thousand are expected in the first quarter of 2005. The public domain or appropriately licensed books will be viewed on-screen, searched, and printed for free using PDF and DJVU. Leveraging the book catalogs of the individual libraries, RLG, and other catalogs, these books will be available to traditional library users without much retraining.

At this time, the libraries that have committed to hosting books on the Text Archive include:

  • Carnegie Mellon University and the Million Book Project, USA
  • University of Toronto, Canada
  • Library of Congress American Memory Project, USA
  • McMaster University, Canada
  • University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
  • Indian Institute of Science, India
  • International Institute of Information Technology, India
  • Zhejiang University, China
  • European Archive, Netherlands
  • Internet Archive, San Francisco USA

Posted by Tom on December 16, 2004