Two days after announcing that it would continue scanning library books after a three-month hiatus, Google said it had finished adding the first major round of full texts to its Google Print database:
some 10,000 works from four major libraries that are no longer under copyright. The additions come from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, and the
New York Public Library, which, along with Oxford University, agreed last year to let Google make searchable all or most of the content in their libraries. Google has come under fire from publishers
and authors about the scanning of copyrighted materials; members of trade groups have sued to stop the process. Google paused temporarily this summer to allow publishers and authors to "opt out" of
having their works scanned, but the trade organizations objected, saying the company must obtain their permission to scan copyrighted materials. Google resumed the scanning process on Nov. 1.
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