CO-ASIS&T » British Library http://www.asis.org/Chapters/coasis Central Ohio Chapter, American Society for Information Science & Technology Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:13:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 British Library and Google http://www.asis.org/Chapters/coasis/2011/06/20/british-library-and-google/ http://www.asis.org/Chapters/coasis/2011/06/20/british-library-and-google/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:45:29 +0000 Timothy J. Dickey http://www.asis.org/Chapters/coasis/2011/06/20/british-library-and-google/ More news on the e-book front:

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/perpetualbeta/british-library-and-google-make-250000-books-available-all

Google will allow a quarter of a million out-of copyright books from the vast collections of the BL freely available on the web. (“Freely,” of course, still meaning that we don’t pay except in search data, and the BL doesn’t pay, except in giving the texts to Google…)

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