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	Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Research Centers, ISIS, Million Books
		The Million Book Project is a joint scheme between the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and over twenty international institutions, varying from universities to information institutes to development corporations from the USA, China and India.
		The project was initiated at Carnegie Mellon University and will reach its short term aim of digitizing one million books worldwide by dividing the work among several centers dispersed across different countries around the world.
		Books are chosen according to strict criteria of them being not widely available (out of print, non-copyrighted and government documents), children’s books or science and technology dissertations.
	www.bibalex.org /English/researchers/isis/millionbooks.htm (649 words)

	Million Book Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Working with government and research partners in India and China, the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to the books on the web.
		Most of the books are in the public domain, but permission has been acquired to include over 60,000 copyrighted books (roughly 53,000 in English and 7,000 in Indian languages).
		The million book project will provide a wide array of content, but one of its collection strengths will be agriculture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Million_Book_Project (630 words)

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		One million books, therefore, is more than the holdings of any high-school, equivalent to the library at a substantial university and a significant fraction of all available books.
		Further, when 80% of the million books are finished, scholars will be recruited to review collections in their disciplines and to select remaining books of importance.
		If a book were to return to general popularity, as the effect of the movie Titanic had on the sales of out of print titles, the publisher should be able to withdraw the permission for a fee.
	rr.cs.cmu.edu /mbdl.htm (5001 words)

	Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Libraries: Million Book Project FAQ
		Publishers might not give the MBP blanket permission to digitize and make available all of their out-of-print, in-copyright titles, but might entertain requests for permission to digitize specific titles.
		OCLC is providing project partners with metadata at no charge, will support a registry to track progress and avoid duplicate scanning, and might become a sustaining host of the final Million Book Project collection.
		The MBP approach is to request permission for a range of years, for example, everything published prior to 1990.
	www.library.cmu.edu /Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html (4205 words)

	sanmiguelmalo: Scan This Book!
		When millions of books have been scanned and their texts are made available in a single database, search technology will enable us to grab and read any book ever written.
		When books are deeply linked, you'll be able to click on the title in any bibliography or any footnote and find the actual book referred to in the footnote.
		The books referenced in that book's bibliography will themselves be available, and so you can hop through the library in the same way we hop through Web links, traveling from footnote to footnote to footnote until you reach the bottom of things.
	sanmiguelmalo.livejournal.com /509606.html (7545 words)

	CLIR Publications
		Although project staff located fewer of the publishers of copyrighted content in the Posner project than in the feasibility study, they greatly increased both the response and success rates during the second study.
		In 2001, MBP planners decided that 100,000 of the 1 million books would be works in copyright.
		The most common reason publishers gave for not participating in the MBP was they did not have the time and staff needed to check their paper files title-by-title to determine copyright status and ownership.
	www.clir.org /PUBS/execsum/sum134.html (1114 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: A million books online for free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The online project will also provide education systems from countries around the world with the chance to make use of books that may not be available in their part of the world.
		The bulk of the project involves the scanning of the million books into the virtual library using overhead type scanners.
		Since the library is going to feature books without violating copyright laws, it is expected to include relatively older books, in addition to newer ones that grant permission to the library for book inclusion.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093128539 (702 words)

	China-US Million Book Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		China-US Million Book Project (MBP), which is named China-American Digital Academic Library (CADAL) in China, is a project collaborated between China and USA (http://www.cadal.cn), the project is funded by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE) and National Science Foundation of USA (NSF).
		Books without copyright issue such as government publications, books whose copyright either expired or never existed, and books whose copyrights are granted for digitization by the publishers.
		In China, the project is led by Zhejiang University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is jointly implemented by Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Shanghai Jiaotong Uni, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhongshan University, Jilin University, Sichun University and Beijing Normal University.
	www.white-clouds.com /iclc/cliej/cl20CUMBP.htm (447 words)

	Initiatives, My Book: Digital and Printed
		This project is designed to enable children to relate to both printed and digital information in a seamless fashion, and to bring the marvels of the digital age to the poorest part of the community.
		The equipment of the project is not only available for the children and young people visiting BA, but there is also a fully equipped van that is touring Alexandria primary and preparatory schools.
		The results will provide proper feedback for improving the impact of this project on an on-going basis as well as developing protocols that can be used to compare between children who visit the Library of Alexandria regularly, schoolchildren of Alexandria and children in poor districts, who have no access to viewing books or using computers.
	www.bibalex.org /English/initiatives/mybook.htm (741 words)

	What Do You Do with a Million Books?
		While libraries that contain more than one million items are not unusual, print libraries never possessed a million books of use to any one reader.
		Vast collections based on image books – raw digital pictures of books with searchable but uncorrected text from OCR –; could arguably retard our long-term progress, reinforcing the hegemony of structures that evolved to minimize the challenges of a world where paper was the only medium of distribution and where humans alone could read.
		Already the books in a digital library are beginning to read one another and to confer among themselves before creating a new synthetic document for review by their human readers.
	dlib.org /dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html (3203 words)

	The Evelyn Wood of Digitized Book Scanners
		But achieving this goal means digitizing the texts of millions of books, journals and magazines ó a slow process that involves turning each page, flattening it and scanning the words into a computer database.
		Book collections may have to be moved long distances to digitization centers.
		Another project, led by the Internet Archive in San Francisco, recently shipped 80 tons of old books acquired from the Kansas City Library to Hyderabad, India, where they will be scanned, according to Michael Lesk, a former National Science Foundation official and digital library expert who works with the archive.
	donswaim.com /nytimes.digitizing.html (878 words)

	About the Prison Book Project - Titusville Forida
		The Prison Book project began in August of 1994, with a goal of delivering 1,000 books to the Brevard County jail within two years.
		Beyond anyone's expectations the ministry has grown to be one of the most successful national prison ministries with nearly three million books mailed to prisoners nationwide in three years.
		Ray knew that the books were turning lives around because he heard from the prisons and from the prisoners themselves.
	www.nbbd.com /npr/PrisonBooks/abouttheproject.html (646 words)

	Books Information Portal @ BookSnooper.com (Book Snooper) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A book is a collection of paper, parchment or other material with a piece of text written on them, bound together along one edge, usually within covers.
		A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a bibliophilist, or a philobiblist, or, more informally, a bookworm.
		A book may be studied by students in the form of a book report.
	www.booksnooper.com (1999 words)

	CMU's 'Million Books' on the Web project makes slow, steady progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		About 30 leaders of the project from CMU, India and China are meeting at the university this week for a workshop and "to keep the momentum going," said Reddy, who has made it one of his pet projects since stepping down as dean of the School of Computer Science in 1998.
		After a year and a half of scanning, the project still seems to be far from its goal of a million books, Reddy acknowledged, but the pace is picking up.
		Reddy said he hopes that one million books will just be the beginning of the digitization effort.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04142/319726.stm (552 words)

	Book In A Million... Cracks Reviews, Pages, Life, Book In A Million
		Books a million is an online book store carrying new, used, and rare books from so many different categories including fiction, nonfiction, biographies.
		A million little piece book Grabbing you with both hands on its very first page, a million little pieces is an emotional rollercoaster ride unlike any other recently published book.
		Book a million coupon Who are eligible to join the science fiction book club2422 signing on the dottled line.
	book-in-a-million.kyrgyzia.com /index.html (262 words)

	Technology Review: How to Digitize a Million Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The project's director, computer scientist Raj Reddy, says he and his colleagues have no more knowledge about Google's methods or progress than anyone else, but they are tackling many of the same challenges.
		This means physically scanning hundreds of millions of pages bound between the covers of an estimated 18 million books, recognizing around 430 languages and all sorts of fonts, making the results available for text searches, and replicating the traditional library browsing experience when it's all done.
		They're using readily available Minolta PS 7000 book scanners set up at 40 scanning stations in India and China, where the local governments are helping to keep the costs low for the nonprofit project.
	www.technologyreview.com /InfoTech/wtr_16434,300,p1.html (927 words)

	Computer Science Colloquium Series, Spring 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At a rate of under a thousand books per year, the estimated 100 million books ever published in the world will take 100,000 years to digitize.
		Capturing born-digital publications at the time of creation (by requiring publishers to submit a digital copy as well the currently mandated physical copy) and scanning all the older publications at a rate of million books per year is one of the solutions being explored at this time to resolve this conundrum.
		The million book project is an attempt to understand and solve the technical, economic and social policy issues of providing online access to all creative works of the human race.
	www.cs.cornell.edu /colloquium/2005sp/reddy.htm (215 words)

	Million book project... Times Book, Powerpoint, Found, Book In A Million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		What is the current status of the million book project what purpose does the million book.
		In october 2002, brewster kahle, a partner in the million book project..
		Million book project pioneered by jaime carbonell, raj reddy, michael shamos, gloriana st clair, and robert thibadeau of carnegie mellon university.
	book-in-a-million.kyrgyzia.com /million_book_project.html (260 words)

	Prison Book Project
		Our largest expenses are shipping the books in from the publishers and shipping them out to prisons.
		We desire to introduce prisoners to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, help them build a firm foundation of faith, and equip them to minister to others, whether they remain in prison or are released.
		An estimated 10.6 million people are in American prisons and jails.
	www.prisonbookproject.com (345 words)

	WPS:Projects:Review of the Rand Corp. book "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates"
		This is a strange book, possibly the oddest book I own, and I have a few oddballs on my shelves.
		Then there is this book, a monstrous anti-table, a work of intentional disorder, produced by machine, an undoing of order itself, by one of the key strategic tools of the Cold War order.
		In the tail of the book is a list of other books published by The Free Press, which appears to be Ayn Rand's reading list.
	www.wps.com /projects/million (785 words)

	A Million Books in DjVu
		The Internet Archive is hosting an ambitious project to place 1 million out-of-copyright books on the web by the year 2005, for free public access.
		TIFF, PDF and DjVu are the three formats that preserve the original page layout of the book, and DjVu is by far the smallest and most efficient format for retrieval.
		Most of the books currently posted were created with bitonal scans, but there are a few books that have been scanned and converted to DjVu in full color, notably The Wizard of Oz.
	www.planetdjvu.com /a_million_books_in_djvu.htm (241 words)

	34 Million Friends - 34 Million Friends
		Be one of 34 million Americans to contribute at least $1 to our grassroots movement for the women of the world.
		The idea behind this project is to ask 34 million Americans to donate at least $1 and in turn, send a message that Americans support UNFPA.
		She has also written a book called 34 Million Friends of the Women of the World.
	www.34millionfriends.org (202 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		The project is reported to have some 10,611 books online now and expects to have another 50,000 in the first quarter of 2005.
		On December 14, 2004, Google announced its project to "borrow" 15 million books from libraries at Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, Oxford and the New York Public Library for scanning and eventual access on the Web (http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html).
		Even at 15 million volumes, the Google project won't be able to substantially alter the ratio of good material to bad on the Web.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=359 (435 words)

	International Book Project
		The International Book Project was founded in 1966 by Mrs.
		As an example of the ripple effect that can be made by one person, IBP has a unique history of having supplied millions of books worldwide since its beginnings in the basement of Mrs.
		In 1992 the International Book Project was one of twenty organizations chosen as a Partner for Peace for the services it provides to Peace Corps programming.
	www.intlbookproject.org /history.php (324 words)

	ACLS History E-Book Project: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It has already become the electronic book that allows both the writer and the reader to survey the vast array of primary and secondary source materials now available, to analyze and to derive a theoretical frame from these materials, and then to serve as a mediated portal to this vast digital realm.
		ACLS is collaborating in this initiative with eight Learned Societies and nearly 75 University Presses to assist scholars in the electronic publishing of high-quality works in history, to explore the intellectual possibilities of new technologies, and to help assure the continued viability of history writing in today's changing publishing environment.
		This project of the American Council of Learned Societies was originally funded in June 1999 by a $3-million, five-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
	www.historyebook.org /intro2.html (828 words)

	Project Briefing-Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting
		Although 95 percent of the books ever published are still in copyright, only 3 percent of them are still in print, which means that 92 percent of the world's published works are neither generating revenue for copyright holders nor easily accessible to potential readers.
		This state of affairs is significantly impeding the creation of a digital library of books that could enhance student learning and faculty research, and address worldwide disparities in library collection size and accessibility.
		The third and largest study is an attempt to acquire copyright permission to include 500,000 copyrighted books in the million-book collection being produced by the international Million Book Project.
	www.cni.org /tfms/2003b.fall/abstracts/PB-research-covey.html (311 words)

	Gloriana St. Clair DSS media files available [OCLC]
		This is an international library project that strives to create a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet.
		Clair’s presentation focused on the development and growth of the project, and highlighted opportunities and challenges in collaboration, content, and sustainability.
		Project partners include government and academic institutions in India and China, academic libraries in the United States, and OCLC.
	www.oclc.org /research/announcements/2003-10-24.htm (220 words)

	NSF Awards $9 Million to Support Understanding of Proteins in Cells
		The project's principal investigators are Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon's Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, and Judith Klein-Seetharaman, assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, who also holds an appointment at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute (LTI).
		The project involves partners at Carnegie Mellon, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Indiana University, National Agriculture Library, OCLC, Penn State University, Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Washington, and 17 institutions in China and India.
		The MBP will create a large testbed of academic resources of all types, in many languages, and make these materials available free for all to read on the Internet.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/021009/021009_nsfawards.html (718 words)

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