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      10 months ago by Katie

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Started by nengard · 10 months ago

Yesterday at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, one talk was about the rules for making sure you get a good deal when having an outside company scan and use your library content. Today, I was pointed to an article in the New York Times comparing the Open Content Alliance partners with the Google ... Continue reading »

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  • Leslie Johnston

    1 year ago

    OCA charges 10 cents per page -- the $30 figure comes from using 300 pages as the average length of a book. For Google participation, institutions do get their scans back, but there are some restrictions. If you want to see the UVA agreement as an example, go to http://www.lib.virginia.edu/press/uvagoogle/agr.... Not all the agreements are exactly the same, and they were scrutinized a lot.

    As to the Internet Archive texts, it is a great resource. But there isn't necessarily any collection development there -- there are many sources, and some texts were contributed by volunteers. Your search may not have been failing, they may have just had vol. 4 and not vols 1-3 and multiple copies of texts may have been contributed. The same is also somewhat true for Google Books -- volumes go in somewhat randomly and there is duplication, but their collection building is based on the collection building at our libraries, so in theory they're aggregating what we thought was valuable, and complete sets where possible. OCA and Internet Archive will get there as the collection grows.

    Making of American is great, isn't it? 12 years collaborative collection development and digitization.
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  • Nicole

    1 year ago

    Thanks for all of the info!

    One note - I did the search and got volume 3 and when I edited the URL to change the number 3 to 2 and 1 and so on, I got the other titles :) So I know they were there.

    I also so a bunch of junk in the Internet Archive, I assume just submitted by random people, but it is still great to have that tool available and maybe one day they'll get the funding they deserve to make things awesome!
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