Google offer on journal archives

Ed Pentz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Peter Suber reports on his Open Access News that Google is offering to digitize journal backfiles. The full text articles are available as images and for free hosted by Google. The deal is non-exclusive and publishers retain copyright (but many backfiles will be out of copyright) but Google will not supply the publisher with the electronic files - so non-exclusive means that the publisher or someone else could digitize the back-year records too (but how to recover the costs when it’s all free in Google?).

Dorothea Salo (recent STM Innovations speaker) over at Caveat Lector provides an excellent review of the Google offer with some good advice for publishers (“always control your bits”).

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Google offer on journal archives