Die UC San Diego berichtete über die Zusammenarbeit mit Google und HathiTrust:
https://library.ucsd.edu/news-events/celebrating-uc-san-diegos-mass-contributions-to-hathitrust/ (2023)
How a little-known textbook scanned by Google Books changed the course of the pandemic
https://blog.google/products/search/how-one-digital-book-led-to-an-important-covid-19-discovery/ (2022)
Following Katie Randall’s discovery, the Google Books Library Project began a months-long process to find the copyright holder for Wells’ book, in order to get permission to open access to the digital copy to everyone. The search involved publishers, copyright lawyers and genealogical research to locate the living descendants of William Firth Wells. One of them, Martha “Alex” Kahlson, put the Books team in touch with the rest of her family, and it was Martha “Molly” McIntosh, Wells’ grandniece, who enthusiastically granted permission to open the book for full viewing at books.google.com.
This is just one example of information locked away in an out of print book and all but forgotten, waiting to be unlocked through digitization. Google, HathiTrust, and our library partners continue to work to ensure that quality information will always have a place in libraries — both physical and digital — and accessible to curious minds across the globe.