Google Book Database

Google Book Database

Introduction

In 2004, Internet giant Google announced plans to create the world's largest digital library by scanning millions of books and indexing them online. To launch the project, Google formed partnerships with five of the world's most prominent research libraries. These include the New York Public Library in New York City, Harvard University Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stanford University Library in California, University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor, and the University of Oxford Library in Great Britain (Scott, 2008). Google Books database project aims at scan their collections of books, many of which are obscure and out ...