British Library Contents To Be Made Available on Google

From the BBC 6/20/2011:           

British Library Makes Google Search Deal
       

Thousands of pages from one of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals are to be made available on the internet.

The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century.

It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites.

The works selected to be digitised date from between 1700 and 1870, and the project will take some years to complete, with Google covering the costs of digitising. Read the Full Story

Video: British Library Contents to be Made Available on Google by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent

       

The British Library in London, England receives over

1 million visitors per year and houses 150 million items.