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European Libraries Counter Google Digitisation

Posted by samzenpus on from the library-wars dept.

headisdead writes "A week after Google substantially improved their UK site, Deutsche-Welle carry the story that the a whole host of large European libraries (with the British Library's tacit support) have joined an EU-based digitisation project as a counter to Google's own library scheme. The project is the brainchild of BNF director Jean-Noel Jeanneney, a sort of mild-mannered Jose Bove for the librarians out there. Divisive pride, or healthy competition?"

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  1. Re:Bi-polar by synx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Biopolar is very well understood and is one of the depressions which responds very nicely to drugs. Webmd and google are you friends, just check things out.

  2. Why bother? by Jugalator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Google doesn't even provide the full text. You can only browse maybe ~20 pages. And they're even designing the UI to make it hard to automatically grab those few pages. What's their problem with Google anyway?

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