Researchers Use Registration Tool to Digitize Books
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By Jennifer C. Yates, Associated Press  PITTSBURGH -- A few simple keystrokes soon may turn blather into books.
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The libraries of some of the biggest academic institutions in the world have joined forces with Google to digitally scan library books and make them searchable online, Google announced Tuesday.
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The new DSpace Foundation will provide support to more than 200 institutions that use the online tool to manage digital documents.
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Researchers are devising new (and hopefully better) ways to interact with Tablet PC's and other pen-based computers.
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Initially skeptical, many scholars have recently applauded the Internet search service's project to digitize some of the world's best library collections.
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A 16-billion-pixel image of the famous painting goes online after a challenging digitization process.
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By Ojala, Marydee  Before there were online and the Internet, libraries connoted books to most people. Yet books are one of the more overlooked research resources in an electronic-information environment.
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When Randall C. Jimerson, the president of the Society of American Archivists, heard of Google&#39;s plan to convert certain holdings at Oxford University and at some of the leading research
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Google Inc. has partnered with five of the world&#39;s leading libraries, including those at Stanford and Harvard, to digitally scan their collections so that the books can be searched, and in many cases read, online free of charge.
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Blog: Interest in digital documents continues with a New York state bill proposing to study preservation of electronic documents.
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Twelve major universities will digitize select collections in each of their libraries &#151; up to 10 million volumes &#151; as part of Google Inc.'s book-scanning project. The goal: a shared digital repository that faculty, students and the public can access quickly.
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Another book publisher makes inroads toward the digital side of content.
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On the path to a much dreamed of world of Internet access to most of the mankind&#39;s written record, the Google project isn&#39;t the first to attempt to digitize books.
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Scientists need help sorting through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.
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Google&#39;s project to archive millions of books from top libraries, experts said, is the first major step toward the company&#39;s goal of indexing massive amounts of printed material, music and video.
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It lets users search for scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, abstracts and technical reports from resources such as academic publishers, universities, professional societies and preprint repositories.
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A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-sized disc has been unveiled by researchers from London&#39;s Imperial College.