es. As of December 2008, Google had 24 library partners,
including a Swiss one (University Library of Lausanne), a French one
(Lyon Municipal Library), a Belgian one (Ghent University Library), a
German one (Bavarian State Library), two Spanish ones (National Library
of Catalonia and University Complutense of Madrid) and a Japanese one
(Keio University Library). The U.S. partner libraries were, by
alphabetical order: Columbia University, Committee on Institutional
Cooperation (CIC), Cornell University Library, Harvard University, New
York Public Library, Oxford University, Princeton University, Stanford
University, University of California, University of Michigan,
University of Texas at Austin, University of Virginia and University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

August 2006 > The Open Content Alliance

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) was launched in October 2005 as a group
of cultural, technology, non profit and governmental organizations
willing to build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and
multimedia content. The project took off in summer 2006, with the
digitization of public domain books around the world. The first 100,000
ebooks available in December 2006 in the Text Archive of the Internet
Archive, with 12,000 new books per month. Unlike Google Books, the Open
Content Alliance (OCA) has made them searchable through any web search
engine, and has not scanned copyrighted books, except when the
copyright holder has expressly given permission. The first contributors
to OCA were the University of California, the University of Toronto,
the European Archive, the National Archives in United Kingdom, O'Reilly
Media and the Prelinger Archives. One million ebooks in December 2008
and two million books in March 2010 were posted under OCA principles by
the Internet Archive.

August 2006 > The union catalog WorldCat on the web

WorldCat is a union catalog run by OCLC (Online Computer Library
Center), created in 1971 as a non-profit organization dedicated to
furthering access to the world's information while reducing information
costs. In 2005, WorldCat had 61 million bibliographic records in 400
languages, from 9,000 member libraries in 112 countries. In 2006, 73
million bibliographic records were linking to one billion documents
available in these libraries. In August 2006, WorldCat began to migrate
to the web through the beta version of its new website worldcat.org.
Member libraries now provided free access to t