Open Content Alliance

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The Open Content Alliance ( OCA ) is a consortium of companies, not-for-profit organizations and government institutions that aims to create a free archive of texts and multimedia content.

The Open Content Alliance was founded in 2005 by Yahoo and the Internet Archive and can be seen as a competitor to Google Book Search . Unlike Google Books, the OCA guarantees that the authors' copyrights will be strictly observed .

As part of the discussion about the Google Book Settlement , many other organizations, such as important US libraries and educational institutions as well as the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Writers Union, joined the Open Content Alliance.

The Open Library project has now bibliographically recorded 22.6 million books (as of December 2008). 1,046,822 works are completely digitized. You can search using the Internet Archive and Open Library.

Organizations involved

• Adobe Inc.
• American Society of Journalists and Authors
• Columbia University
• Emory University
• European Archive
• HP Labs
• Internet Archive
• Johns Hopkins University Libraries
• McMaster University
• Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Microsoft Network - digitize books from the British Library and develop them for your own book search
• National Writers Union (USA)
• National Archives (United Kingdom)
• O'Reilly Publishing House
• Open Library - bibliographic database
• Prelinger Archives
• Research Libraries Group (RLG) - Provide catalogs of books
• Rice University
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• University of British Columbia
• University of California
• University of Ottawa
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Toronto
• University of Virginia
• Yahoo
• York University

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a cooperation project of:

• American Museum of Natural History
• Harvard University Botany Libraries
• Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Natural History Museum, London
• The New York Botanical Garden
• Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens)
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries

literature

• Stefan Krempl: Open Content Alliance receives support from major US libraries. In: Heise online . October 22, 2007 . Retrieved March 19, 2017.

See also

• Project Gutenberg

Web links

• Official website ( Memento of November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Open Content Alliance at Internet Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Krempl: Open Content Alliance receives support from important US libraries. In: Heise online . October 22, 2007 . Retrieved March 19, 2017.
2. ↑ ASJA calls amended Google settlement "Fundamentally unfair to writers". American Society of Journalists and Authors, February 18, 2010, archived from the original February 25, 2012 ; accessed on March 19, 2017 (English). 
3. ^ National Writers Union Joins Open Book Alliance. National Writers Union September 4, 2009; Archived from the original on September 7, 2009 ; accessed on March 19, 2017 (English).