Yale announces free online access to museum, library collections. (Boston Globe, 5/11/2011)
Excerpt: Yale University officials announced yesterday that the school intends to be the first in the Ivy League to offer free online access to digital images of millions of objects housed in its museums, archives, and libraries.
No license will be required for transmission of the images, and no limitations will be imposed on their use, which will allow scholars, artists and others around the world to use Yale collections for study, publication, teaching, and inspiration, Yale officials said.
It will take many years for the university to digitize all its objects. The school has harvested 1.5 million records from its catalogs and digitized 250,000 of them, available through a newly developed collective catalog. Yale expects the number of records to grow much larger as it continues to harvest its catalogs.
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