The University of Michigan University Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The system, consisting of 19 separate libraries in 11 buildings, altogether holds over 8.27 million volumes, with the collection growing at the rate of 177,000 volumes a year.
UM was the original home of the JSTOR database, which contains about 750,000 digitized pages from the entire pre-1990 backfile of ten...
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The University of Michigan University Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The system, consisting of 19 separate libraries in 11 buildings, altogether holds over 8.27 million volumes, with the collection growing at the rate of 177,000 volumes a year.
UM was the original home of the JSTOR database, which contains about 750,000 digitized pages from the entire pre-1990 backfile of ten journals of history and economics. The University Library recently initiated a book digitization program in collaboration with Google, and its recent partnership with Google to digitize its collection (known as Michigan Digitization Project or Mbooks) is both revolutionary and controversial. As of August 31, 2006, UM has rolled out the first phase of the Google archive retrieval.
Responding to restricted public funding and the rising costs of print materials, the Library has launched significant new scholarly communication ventures that use...
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