http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/index.html
Google wrote about the Google Book Search legal settlement: "In addition to the institutional subscriptions and the free public access terminals, the agreement also creates opportunities for researchers to study the millions of volumes in the Book Search index. Academics will be able to apply through an institution to run computational queries through the index without actually reading individual books." Allowing only academics with institutional credentials to conduct full searches through the entire Google Books database denies equal access to information and knowledge to ordinary consumers who would also often benefit from complete searches. It is elitist and authoritarian and unjust. Hopefully the court rules against this exclusionary provision and opens complete search to all people. Nic Leobold [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
