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European works left out of Google Books deal - 16 November 2009 - News

Published works from the US, UK, Australia and Canada only will be included in Google's digital book search project, Google and book industry representatives agreed on Friday (13 November).

EU to tackle digital book copyright in 2010 - 21 October 2009 - News

The European Commission will establish "simple and cost-efficient rights clearance systems" on the digitisation of published works and their availability on the Internet, it announced this week (19 October).

EU opens historical archives to public - 20 October 2009 - News

Thousands of EU publications were made available to the public for free last week (16 October) following the launch in Frankfurt of a new digital library, the 'EU Bookshop'.

Digitisation of published works - 14 October 2009 - LinksDossier

The EU has been busy scanning books and documents to improve citizens' access to culture and history, but its efforts have been overshadowed by Google's commercial push to digitise Europe's book heritage.

EU divided over Google Books - 28 August 2009 - News

The digitisation of books is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in Brussels. Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding is supporting the efforts of Google, the main private actor in the field, while Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has called a hearing on copyright violations committed by Google Books in Europe, following complaints of many member states.

EU digital library collapses amid huge demand - 21 November 2008 - News

Amid massive interest and millions of hits, the EU's Internet library 'Europeana' collapsed shortly after launch yesterday (20 November). The European Commission said it plans to reactivate the site in mid-December.

Parliamentarians call for more books to be put online - 01 October 2007 - News

The European Parliament has asked the Commission to speed up the process of setting up a European Digital Library, which aims to become a one-stop shop for accessing literary and scientific works online.

Open access to scientific publishing draws controversy - 16 February 2007 - News

Scientific publishers fear that the Commission's plans to support online open access to scientific information will undermine their businesses.

Bigger European Digital Library? Tell me more! - 12 December 2006 - News

More than six million books, documents and other culturally significant works should become available online in the new European Digital Library during the next five years, thanks to the information society technologies (IST) programme TEL-ME-MOR.

European culture and science - at a click - 28 August 2006 - News

By 2008, European citizens should be able to access books, films and other cultural products via Europe’s Digital Library.

Digital libraries: industry dominates expert group - 28 March 2006 - News

Industry is better represented than the library sector among the members of DG Information Society's High Level Expert Group on digital libraries, which met for the first time on 27 March 2005.

European Digital Library needs clarification of copyright issues - 03 March 2006 - News

The intellectual property rights management issue needs to be clarified before the Commission's plans to make Europe's written and audiovisual heritage available on the Internet become reality.

France pushes for European books online - 31 August 2005 - News

While Google has announced versions of its online book service in 6 EU languages other than English, France is speeding up its rival venture for a European Digital Library.

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