And here are some recent news stories from the world of text digitization and digital humanities that have come across the MHL feeds…
The Authors Guild has announced a lawsuit against five American universities and HathiTrust over the digitization of material the Guild argues was copyright-protected. The Guild is suing over the digitization of “7 million books.”
In additional HathiTrust news, Ebsco recently announced that full text from the Hathi collection will be searchable via the Ebsco Discovery Service.
JSTOR has made its pre-1923 content freely available online: this covers content from over 200 journals and is approximately 6% of the total content on JSTOR. You can watch a video tutorial on the content and how to access it on the JSTOR site.
And the Digital Public Library of America is convening its first plenary meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 2011. Registration is free to anyone interested and it promises to be a fascinating session.
In addition to EBSCO, OCLC also recently announced that it would integrate fulltext search of Hathi Trust within WorldCat. See http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891965-264/hathitrusts_growth_strategy_full-text_search.html.csp