Open Content Alliance (OCA) scan books, and makes them
available to any search engine.
The Triangle Research Libraries Network
recently announced
that they -- that is to say the libraries at Duke University, North
Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and UNC
-- will be joining the OCA initiative and making public domain books
from university libraries available online.
What is the OCA? Okay, let's start with the Internet Archive. Available at
http://www.archive.org/index.php,
the Internet Archive contains, in addition to an archive of old Web
pages, a massive amount of freely available content -- over 47,000 live
concerts! Over 114,000 movies! Over 230,000 audio recordings! And over
350,000 texts.