The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus is reporting that the United Nations has launched the World Digital Library. The project is meant to gather materials out of copyright from across the world. From the article:
The site, four years in the making, brings together historical manuscripts along with secondary literature describing them—translated into seven different languages. The library includes scanned documents from 27 libraries in 19 countries so far, including a manuscript from ancient Japan that is believed to be the first novel ever.
