As the national library of the United Kingdom, The British Library collection includes manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, as well as a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland.
In addition, Microsoft announced that it will join the Open Content Alliance (OCA). The Open Content Alliance is a collaborative effort of several organizations to build a permanent archive of text and multimedia content. The content archive will be available exclusively via Yahoo! Search.
In other open content news, Google launched its Google Print service. Students can use Google Print to access millions of pages from public domain books.
Taking a page from the iTunes playbook, Amazon via its Amazon Pages service will sell online access to just the pages you want to read. This will surely be a big hit with college students who only need one chapter from that $100 textbook!
Their other new service, Amazon Upgrade, will provide customers with a physical copy of a book along with online access to the complete text of the book.
This is a positive trend and one that will provide a wealth of educational materials for students and teachers around the globe.
These resources are especially valuable for students in rural areas and developing nations, who without open content texts, would be hard pressed to find comparable resources in their own libraries.
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