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At Cornell, the Library is also involved in several initiatives aimed at converting the university's special and core collections. A list of its digital collections is available at <rdc.library.cornell.edu>.
Will the books to be digitized from Cornell's collection include both public domain and in copyright works?
Yes. The digitization initiative will include both public domain and in-copyright materials in a manner consistent with copyright law.
For books in the public domain, readers will be able to read, download and print the full texts from the Google site.
For books protected by copyright, users will just get basic background (such as the book's title and the author's name), at most a few lines of text related to their search, and information about where they can buy or borrow a book. If publishers or authors do not want to have their books digitized, Google will exclude them.
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