Spanish University Signs with Google

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Of possible Interest.  This is "loose" translation from a news 
item in ABC Madrid.  Ann Okerson 
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The library of the Complutensian University of Madrid, the 
largest in Spain after the National, will be accessible on the 
Internet, thanks to an agreement with Google, according to an 
announcement yesterday from both organizations.  The UCM will 
thus be the first Spanish-speaking university taken into the 
Google digital library, following the footsteps of Oxford, 
Harvard, California, Michigan, Stanford, NYPL, and the EU 
Congress (Parliament?).  The agreement with the search king of 
the Internet imagines the digitization of books and documents in 
the public domain and out of copyright in the library, which 
amount to 10% of the three million works in the library.  In this 
percentage are included two thousand works which have already 
been archived in digital form.

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