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Oxford Google Books Project

In 2004, Oxford University entered into partnership with Google to scan the Bodleian Libraries' out-of-copyright holdings, in particular those from the C19th. We were one of the original "big five" institutions to sign-up to Google's Library Partnership Project, and the first from outside the US. The initial phase of this work completed in the summer of 2009, with several hundred thousand of our books being scanned and made available via Google Books (http://books.google.com/).

 

Items were selected solely on their copyright status and suitability for scanning, and the works that have been digitized cover a wide range of languages, disciplines, and genres. They include the first English translation of Newton's "Mathematical principles of natural philosophy" from 1729, the first edition of Jane Austen's "Emma", and John Cassell's "Illustrated History of England".

 

Over the past eighteen months the Bodleian Libraries have been working to preserve the digitized books, and to integrate them with our conventional holdings so that they be easily found and used by all our readers.