Open Content Alliance
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The Open Content Alliance is a consortium of non-profit and for-profit groups dedicated to building a free archive of digital text and multimedia. It was conceived in 2005 by Yahoo! and the Internet Archive. It was conceived in response to Google Book Search's closed nature, and aims to keep public domain works in the public domain on-line. These results will then be used in the search results of participating search engines. The OCA uploads books by process of book scanning.
OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differs significantly from that of Google Book Search. OCA intends to digitize copyrighted works only after asking (and receiving) permission from the copyright holder ("opt-in"). By contrast, Google Book Search plans to digitize copyrighted works unless explicitly told not to do so by November 1, 2005 ("opt-out"), and contends that digitizing for the purposes of indexing is fair use.
[edit] Involved organizations
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Columbia University
- Emory University
- European Archive
- HP Labs
- Internet Archive
- Johns Hopkins University Libraries
- McMaster University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- MSN [1]
- National Archives (UK)
- O'Reilly Media
- Prelinger Archives
- Research Libraries Group
- Rice University
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- University of British Columbia
- University of California
- University of Ottawa
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia
- Yahoo!
- York University
Biodiversity Heritage Library, a cooperative project of:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Harvard University Botany Libraries
- Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Natural History Museum, London
- The New York Botanical Garden
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
[edit] See also
- Digital library
- Google Book Search
- List of digital library projects
- Project Gutenberg
- Universal library
- Freescience
[edit] External links
- The Universal Library (Carnegie Mellon site)
News Articles
- Scan This Book! (May 14, 2006 New York Times)
- Microsoft To Join Book-Search Alliance (October 26, 2005 International Herald Tribune]
- In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books (October 3, 2005 New York Times article)
- Building the Universal Library (May 18, 2005 Search Engine Watch)
Blog Posts
- The Universal Library and Other Book Digitization Projects (Search Engine Watch)
