Alternativ (eller kompletering) till Googles bibliotekssataning

Ett nytt initiativ för att göra litteraturen tillgängligt över internet har kommit till.
The Open-Access Text Archives är ett sammarbete mellan the Internet Archive och ett antal internationella bibliotek.

By working with libraries from 5 countries, and working to expand this number, we are bringing a broad range of materials to every interested individual. This growing commitment to open access through public archives marks a significant commitment to broad, public, and free access. While still early in its evolution, works in dozens of languages are already stored in the Internet Archive's Open-Access Text Archive offering a breadth of materials to everyone.

Over one million books have been committed to the Text Archive. Currently over twenty-seven thousand are available and an additional fifty thousand are expected in the first quarter of 2005. Advanced processing of these multilingual books will offer unprecedented access.

Inblandat just nu är:

• Carnegie Mellon University and the Million Book Project, USA (Raj Reddy)
• University of Toronto, Canada (Carole Moore)
• Library of Congress American Memory Project, USA (Deanna Marcum)
• McMaster University, Canada (Graham Hill)
• University of Ottawa, Canada (Leslie Weir)
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt (Noha Adly)
• Indian Institute of Science, India (N. Balakrishnan)
• International Institute of Information Technology, India (Dr. Jawahar Lakshmi)
• Zhejiang University, China (Professor Zhao)
• European Archive, Netherlands (Julien Masanès)
• Internet Archive, San Francisco USA (Brewster Kahle)