http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/02/03/55 A weblog on early modern culture, teaching English literature, and what else comes to mind Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:24:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/02/03/55/comment-page-1#comment-177 Kristine Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:15:01 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/02/03/55#comment-177 But surely EEBO wouldn't sell the rights to publish their scanned texts, unless Google were prepared to pay a truly huge sum that compensated EEBO's loss of income? Or is there a catch? But surely EEBO wouldn’t sell the rights to publish their scanned texts, unless Google were prepared to pay a truly huge sum that compensated EEBO’s loss of income? Or is there a catch?

]]> http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/02/03/55/comment-page-1#comment-176 Clanger Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:18:18 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/02/03/55#comment-176 Google, who repeatedly claim to want to make texts available freely online, could simply purchase the rights to EEBO and the other, similar databases that so many scholars are locked out of, and make them freely available, instead of re-scanning the same works again. Google, who repeatedly claim to want to make texts available freely online, could simply purchase the rights to EEBO and the other, similar databases that so many scholars are locked out of, and make them freely available, instead of re-scanning the same works again.

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