What mass digitization projects are currently underway at UC?
The UC Libraries are currently participating in two mass digitization projects: Google Book Search, and the Open Content Alliance. These are non-exclusive agreements and the UC Libraries may enter into other agreements with other digitization projects as they arise. Google Book Search http://books.google.com/ In the Google Book Search project, books and serials (both in-copyright and in the public domain) in all languages are being scanned. The Google-University of California contract targets scanning 2.5 million volumes over a period of six years. Open Content Alliance: http://www.archive.org/details/americana and http://www.archive.org/details/texts The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of an international group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations that are building a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content in the public domain. UC Libraries earliest forays into mass digitization were through
