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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011. It’s a pillar of the humanities’ growing engagement with Big Data. It’s also a handy resource for other kinds of research.

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