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The Internet search company Google plans to put millions of library books
online and make them searchable.
This week, Google announced a project with
the New York Public Library and the libraries of four universities. These are
Stanford, Harvard and the University of Michigan in the United States and Oxford
in England.

Stanford University and the University of Michigan have
agreed to let Google copy their full collections. Michigan put some of its seven
million books on the Web this week. Its full collection is about six years away.
The New York Public Library says it will only provide Google with materials
no longer under copyright restrictions. Oxford will offer only books published
before the twentieth century. And Harvard University will provide just forty
thousand books at first.
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