Yahoo! to back open web library
The Yahoo! backed Open Content Alliance is planning to work with university libraries and other archives to create an open web library. From SFGate:
The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors, said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo’s vice president of search content.
Other participants in the alliance announced Monday include Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., the Internet Archive, O’Reilly Media Inc., the University of California and the University of Toronto.
Although Yahoo will power the search engine located at , all the content will be made available so it can be indexed by all the other major search engines, including Google’s.
More info at The Chronicle of Higher Ed