Google scanning the British Library

[thewayne]

This is an awesome project, and it would be nice to see it expanded. Sadly, the scanned archive will end at 1870 due to European copyright law, which apparently is a little more restrictive than US copyright law, if such a thing is possible.

I'm looking forward to cruising this material.

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/06/20/google-to-make-british-library-archive-available-online/

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/2319220/Google-To-Digitize-Make-Available-British-Librarys-Historical-Holdings

Comments

[silveradept]

That should be quite interesting to see. I'm hoping this helps scholarship significantly as well as showing off some of the neat stuff available - curators, please?