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| April 13, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Mark Chillingworth

Yahoo challenges Google book digitisation project

Mark Chillingworth

Yahoo is launching a direct rival to the Google Print book and library search service. As a founding member of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) co-operative, Yahoo will make the public domain collections of the UK National Archives, the Internet Archive, University of California and University of Toronto searchable online.

Yahoo will fund the digitisation of a body of American literature selected by the University of California, which will be free to access and read in PDF format. Unlike Google, Yahoo and OCA has clearly stated that only public domain material will be digitised or permission must be secured from copyright holders. The Internet Archive will host the digitised materials and Yahoo will index the entire archive.

Adobe and Hewlett-Packard are technology partners in OCA alongside Yahoo, whilst the European Archive, O'Reilly ...

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