Most uber-Cornell dorks will tell you that one of the greatest resources on University history is the Cornell Library's digital collection of the Daily Sun. To date, the library has digitized 75 years of the Sun in a format that allows both searching and browsing, and the library continues to actively recruit more donors to help pay for the expenses of additional years. But now it appears that we may have another option on the table: The new scheme will see Google linking up with a series of major newspaper and magazine publishers to digitise their print archives. Google will foot the bill for scanning the archived publications and, as it has done with out-of-copyright books for the Google Books archive, will generate revenue by placing ads alongside the content and splitting the income with publishers.Google marked another milestone in its ambition to organise the world's information last night, revealing an ambitious extension of its Google News search that will make millions of pages of archived newspaper content available for free.
So can we get the Cornell Alumni Magazine and the Cornell Countryman on Google?
