The Gale-Bodleian Libraries partnership is in its second year of Asia-Pacific research into digital humanities fellowships.
British Libraries Bid on Literary Treasures
In the UK this week, both Oxford University and the British Library had their eyes (and hands) set on expensive relics of the past.
Will Europe’s Three Million Orphan Books Ever Be Digitized?
By Edward Nawotka • The EC has determined there are three million orphan books in Europe and the cost of clearing digital rights is costly, often far higher than digitization itself. • One solution might be Europe-wide collective licensing agreements modeled on those currently in use in Scandinavia. BRUSSELS: The issue of orphan books –- those books with no clear …
Could EC Digitzation Debate Pave the Way for a Competitor to Google?
By Liz Bury LONDON: Deep in the Bodleian Library, the scholarly heart of Oxford University, England, is a locked room emitting, I imagine, a low hum. This is Google’s digitization suite, the control center of its scanning operation at the library, into which no Bodleian staffer may enter. That, at least, is the story doing the rounds among British librarians, …