Following what some saw as a renegade initial renegotiation of terms of the Google Book Search scanning agreement with the University of Michigan, Google has announced new agreements with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas. While Michigan specified many of the particulars of their agreement (which gives the institution free access to the complete database that Google intends to license to other institutions as compensation for the books provide for scanning), the new announcement do little more than repeat blandishments about increased public access. (That access is still dependent upon the approval of the settlement of the […]