In the English corner of this German blog (Archivalia) is a post about Google and the University of Michigan not allowing access to the books they are digitizing to people located outside of the U.S. This blogger has asked friends/colleagues in various countries to check this out and all reported not being able to access a specific "test" book in the UMich-Google collection. The error message they are seeing claims that there are copyright restrictions, yet they are trying to view a public domain works. Very strange.
If you're outside of the U.S., you might want to read this post and give some input. (And leave a message here too.) When you search Google Book Search for Emanuel Geibel's Gedichte (the test book they are using), what do you see?
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Thanks for spreading the message! All works published after 1864 outside the US seems to be blocked for foreign users by UMich.
ReplyDeletei was about to speak for the philippines when i remembered that i'm not there anymore =)
ReplyDeletebut thanks for this!