August 26, 2009 – 7:30 am
nbsp;http://google.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
Welcome to the Google Search Tutorial blog, where you’ll find short, useful tutorials on how to use Google’s search engine. Everything from the basics to more advanced features will be covered.
Each video is tagged with the time of the video so you can click on a tag for the time you have to spare. [...]
August 18, 2009 – 3:39 pm
nbsp;http://www.researchinformation.info/news…
Online book depository, Google Books, has launched an initiative that it hopes will help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they’ve made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses.
Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can now choose to allow readers around the world to download, use and share [...]
August 14, 2009 – 1:14 pm
nbsp;http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/set…
Google Book Settlement Information For Faculty and Scholars
Background
In 2004, Google announced a plan to partner with major research libraries to scan the books in their collections. Google also has a project to work with publishers to obtain digital copies of newly published books to add to the Google books database. Shortly after the Library Project [...]
nbsp;http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) sent a letter to William Cavanaugh, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division yesterday, requesting the Division to advise the court presiding over the Google Book [...]
nbsp;http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconne…
Three book titles were searched in Google, with and without the keyword
“library,” to test how frequently the “library” brand might occur
in first-page results. Search results were analyzed to look for patterns
in results, in particular the relative weight of commercial interests
versus nonprofit and socialWeb interests.
nbsp;http://www.google.com/squared
a tool to capture structured open data and present it in tabular form
source: OAN
nbsp;http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/…
Introduction
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary [...]
nbsp;http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/google-michiga…
On May 20, 2009, Google and the University of Michigan (Michigan) entered into
an amendment that expanded the 2004 agreement that allowed Google to scan books in
the Michigan library for inclusion in Google’s search database. The new agreement (the
Amendment) addresses the provisions of the proposed settlement agreement between
Google and the plaintiffs in the Google Book Search [...]
nbsp;http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a…
Abstract:
This paper considers the proposed settlement agreement between Google and the Authors Guild relating to Google Book Search. Google boldly launched Google Book Search in pursuing its goal of organizing the world’s information. Even though Google was sensitive to copyright values, the service relied on mass copying and thus Google undertook a substantial legal risk [...]
December 10, 2008 – 6:46 am
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary [...]
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