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Information Technology News Million dollar grant challenges Google and Microsoft online libraries
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| by Adam Turner | |
| Thursday, 21 December 2006 | |
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The $US1 million grant, from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be used to expand the Internet Archive's Open-Access Text Archive - which already contains 100,000 books. Future projects include scanning the complete personal library of former US President and founding father John Adams as well texts from New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles' Getty Research Institute and the University of California Berkeley. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation. The announcement comes only weeks after Microsoft released Live Search Books to beta. Live Search Books is initially restricted to only include non-copyright books scanned from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. Copyrighted books will be added to the collection later, but only those submitted to Microsoft by publishers or authors. Microsoft's policy of only scanning copyrighted books with the publisher or author's consent contrasts with Google's approach of scanning all the books from participating libraries, including the libraries of Stanford, Michigan and Harvard Universities and of the New York Public Library. Only public domain books are available for full text views, but several publishers and authors have taken legal action along with the US Authors Guild.{moscomment}
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