John Battelle has the scoop on Google's "Project Ocean." From an email he received:
"Harvard University is embarking on a collaboration with Google that could
harness Google's search technology to provide to both the Harvard community and
the larger public a revolutionary new information location tool to find
materials available in libraries. In the coming months, Google will collaborate
with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of
the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system.
Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in
the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects
with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public
Library."
