In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library

Johnson, Richard K. In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library. ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions, 2007, n. 250, pp. 2-15. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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As stewards of their collections, libraries have a responsibility to ensure that the digitization agreements they enter into protect the public domain and provide for innovative uses of digital files beyond keyword searching. This article brings together a number of articulations of core library interests in digitization partnerships, identifies six key interests against which potential agreements should be evaluated, and urges libraries and their institutions to make full use of their leverage to ensure the global digital library is open and dynamic. A checklist accompanying the article suggests some of the questions negotiators might ask themselves as they consider their objectives in entering an agreement.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: digitization, digital libraries, Google Book Search, Open Content Alliance, Yahoo, Microsoft, public domain
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HO. e-books.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JG. Digitization.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user: Richard K Johnson
Date deposited: 20 Feb 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:06
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9010

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