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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 22, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The University of Texas at Austin says it has become the newest partner in a Google book digitization project.
The partnership between the University of Texas Libraries and Google is part of the Google Books Library Project that started in 2004, initially to digitize books drawn from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library.
In the course of the multi-year project, Google will digitize at least 1 million volumes from the University of Texas Libraries.
The books will be searchable through Google Book Search. Anyone will be able to freely view, browse and read the university's public domain books.
For books protected by copyright, users will only be provided the basic background information such as the book's title and the author's name and information about where they can borrow or buy the book.
Publishers or authors who wish not to have their books digitized can be omitted from inclusion in the project.
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