John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
What are we getting from mass text
digitization efforts so far?
•Many books before 1923, or 1909, or 1864
–Over 40,000 from Google alone since the fall
–Public domain status determination often very conservative
•Some open access serial runs
–Open access largely seen in nonprofit projects (MOA, newspapers, ILEJ…) or by journals themselves
(smaller-scale)
–Google, Internet Archive, etc. also including some serial volumes along with the books, not systematically to
date
–Larger collections available in limited access (EBSCO, JSTOR…)
•A fascinating assortment of miscellaneous text
–Pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, diaries, blogs, ephemera…
–We won’t focus on that in this talk