and publishers in October 2008,
with an agreement to be signed in 2009.

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.

2006: TOWARDS A WORLD PUBLIC DIGITAL LIBRARY

= [Overview]

Conceived by the Internet Archive to offer a universal public
digital library, 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 2006, with the digitization of public
domain books around the world. 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. The digitized collections are freely available in the
Text Archive section of the Internet Archive. In December 2008,
one million ebooks were posted under OCA principles by the
Internet Archive.

= [In Depth]

The Internet Archive and Yahoo! conceived the Open Content
Alliance (OCA) in early 2005 to offer broad public access to
the world culture. The OCA also wanted to address the issues of
the Google Book project, with its copyright issues and its
availability from one search engine only. The OCA was launched
with the goal of digitizing only public domain books and making
them searchable and downloadable through any search engine.

What exactly is the Internet Archive? Founded in April 1996 by
Brewster Kahle, the Internet A