With Google Settlement in Limbo, Universities Press Ahead With Research on Digitized Books

"Indiana University and the University of Illinois plan to establish a center for computational research on millions of digitized texts, many of them scanned by Google."

Other Digital Book Projects Impacting Academic Libraries

"...a pair of library services scheduled to be announced today show that even as the world’s most high-profile digital search-and-retrieval effort has been set back, smaller, academically oriented projects are hoping to continue making electronic texts more discoverable."