What are the benefits to faculty as authors (rightsholders)?
• Works are fully searchable and can more easily be discovered by potential readers via Internet search engines • Depending on terms with the publisher, you (if you are the rightsholder) may have an opportunity to realize revenues from commercial uses of your books. • Through a Settlement provision called ‘Coupling,’ if any commercial uses of a work are made, Google must include those books in the Institutional Subscription, the Research Corpus, and other library-oriented services (e.g. Public Access Service, free search and ‘find in a library’). Google cannot make commercial uses without also making works fully available to library users under the Settlement.
