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International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access Text Archives

Thu, 2004/12/23 - 5:37pm — mark

Bernie Sloan (on the Web4Lib and liblicense email lists) points out this December 15 announcement from the Internet Archives. According to the announcement,

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.

Libraries from the US, Canada, India, Egypt, China, and the Netherlands are listed as current participants.