Yale University announced Tuesday that it will offer free online access to digital images of millions of objects housed in its museums, archives and libraries, and the school said it's the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible that way.
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Yale University announced Tuesday that it will offer free online access to digital images of millions of objects housed in its museums, archives and libraries, and the school said it's the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible that way.
No license will be required for the 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 said.
It will take many years for the university to digitize all its objects. The school has harvested 1.5 million records from all its catalogs and digitized 250,000 of them, which are available through a newly developed collective catalog (http://tinyurl.com/4x2x2f3 ). Yale expects the 1.5 million records to grow much larger as it continues to harvest its catalogs
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