Showing posts with label Google Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Books. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
Judge Hands Google a Big Victory in Lengthy Book-Scanning Case
Google has won a major victory in the long legal fight over its scanning and searching of millions of books.
A federal judge, Denny Chin, ruled on Thursday that Google's use of copyrighted works in its Google Books program counts as fair use, and he dismissed a lawsuit originally brought by authors and publishers groups in 2005.
Early reaction from researchers and librarians to Thursday's decision was enthusiastic. "A great day for fair use!" tweeted Matthew L. Jockers, a digital humanist who is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. "Let the text mining begin!"
A federal judge, Denny Chin, ruled on Thursday that Google's use of copyrighted works in its Google Books program counts as fair use, and he dismissed a lawsuit originally brought by authors and publishers groups in 2005.
Early reaction from researchers and librarians to Thursday's decision was enthusiastic. "A great day for fair use!" tweeted Matthew L. Jockers, a digital humanist who is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. "Let the text mining begin!"
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century
Interesting article in the CHE
......rediscovery of the 19th century as an open-source reading experience is accompanied by a subtle appreciation of the era’s intellectual merits. Consider the quantity of material—obscure novels, local histories, antique catalogs, minor journals, a sea of biographies, and those vast and terrifyingly erudite bibliographies that were a specialty of that age of scholarship.Work that fails to enter a canon—literary, historical, or otherwise—tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard. This represents a significant change in the way we think about scholarship. Google Books is a kind of Victorian portal that takes me into a mare magnum of out-of-print authors, many of whom helped launch disciplines. Or who wrote essays, novels, and histories that did not transcend their time. Or who anonymously produced the paperwork of emerging bureaucracies, organizations, and businesses that, because printed, has been scanned and, because scanned, is now available......
......rediscovery of the 19th century as an open-source reading experience is accompanied by a subtle appreciation of the era’s intellectual merits. Consider the quantity of material—obscure novels, local histories, antique catalogs, minor journals, a sea of biographies, and those vast and terrifyingly erudite bibliographies that were a specialty of that age of scholarship.Work that fails to enter a canon—literary, historical, or otherwise—tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard. This represents a significant change in the way we think about scholarship. Google Books is a kind of Victorian portal that takes me into a mare magnum of out-of-print authors, many of whom helped launch disciplines. Or who wrote essays, novels, and histories that did not transcend their time. Or who anonymously produced the paperwork of emerging bureaucracies, organizations, and businesses that, because printed, has been scanned and, because scanned, is now available......
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
How Google Book Search Affects Academe
Podcast: How Google Book Search Affects Academe
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3828&utm_source=at&utm
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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3828&utm_source=at&utm
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