The Boston Library Consortium, Inc. (BLC) has announced a partnership with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to build a freely accessible library of digital materials from all 19 member institutions. The BLC is reportedly the first large-scale consortium to embark on such a self-funded digitisation project with the OCA. The BLC/OCA project seeks to ensure that materials digitised will remain free and open to scholars and the public. The Consortium will offer high-resolution, downloadable, reusable files of public domain materials. Using Internet Archive technology, books from all 19 libraries will be scanned at a cost of just 10 cents per page. Collectively, the BLC member libraries provide access to over 34 million volumes.
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