Paul Courant piece

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

See Paul Courant's piece on Google and Libraries in the current issue of
First Monday:

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/courant/index.html

Here is the abstract:

"The prospect of ubiquitous digitization will not change the 
fundamental relationships among scholarship, academic libraries, 
and publication. Collaboration across time and space, which is a 
principal mechanism of scholarship, ought to be enhanced. Reforms 
in copyright law will be required if the promise of digitization 
is to be realized; absent such reform, there is a serious risk 
that much academically valuable material will become invisible 
and unused. Ubiquitous digitization will change radically the 
economics that have supported university-based collections of 
published material. Scholars and scholarly institutions 
(including libraries and university presses) must assert 
vigorously claims of fair use and openness."

Joe Esposito

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