Mass book digitization: The deeper story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance

First Monday

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Leetaru, Kalev ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Center Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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EID: 55249085432     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v13i10.2101     Document Type: Article

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