[Web4lib] Open Content Alliance announced

[Roy Tennant]

"The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with  
several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books,  
academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will consist  
of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and  
authors, said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president of search  
content.

Other participants in the alliance announced Monday include Adobe  
Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., the Internet Archive, O'Reilly  
Media Inc., the University of California and the University of Toronto."

More at:

NYTimes article: <http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP- 
Online-Book-Project.html>
Project Web Site: <http://www.opencontentalliance.org/>
UC Press Release: <http://www.opencontentalliance.org/UC.pdf>

Roy Tennant