online library portals
The provision of free literature freely accessible online again with the release site disemarakkan University Libraries result of The Million Book Project.
Initiative spearheaded by Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S., China Zhejiang University, Indian Institute of Science, and Library of Alexandria in Egypt was completed copy more than 1.5 million titles of books in digital format and published online .
“Every person who is connected to the Internet now can access the book collection which is comparable to a large university library,” said Raj Reddy, professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University who pioneered this project.
Although the purpose of this project is to provide unlimited access through the Internet, about half are still under copyright. Only about ten percent of the books with copyright, which had obtained permission to be dikases free.
However, at least at least half of the collection or more than 750,000 book titles available free of copyright so that it can be accessed fully. Some collections are rare books do not even traceable author. .
Most of the scanning process, preparation, and the categorization was done at several locations in China and India. The funds have been spent to reach 10 million U.S. dollars. The project, which began in 2002 will continue to be expanded and is now an average of 7000 books is scanned every day by involving more than 1,000 employees worldwide.
Free literature has been pioneered by the media Intrenet Project Gutenberg. Yahoo and Google also is building a similar service in cooperation with publishers and major universities.
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