Stephen Francoeur's Commonplace Book

Thoughts about the institutional access proposed in the settlement for Google Book Search. Pull quote: “From an institution’s perspective, would I (at a major research university) be ready to deal with the support requirements explaining that every user of GBS [Google Book Search] must create their own Google account (if where there is no GA4E [Google Account for Education], separate and distinct from their existing accounts), and that each individual user is in essence a party to a license under very different terms, potentially, than those governing access to other licensed resources?”