The''' Michigan Digitization Project''' is a project in partnership with [[Google booksBooks]] to digitize the entire print collection of the [[University of Michigan Library]]. The digitized collection is available through the University of Michigan Library catalog, [http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Mirlyn], the [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Digital Library catalog], and [[Google Book Search]]. Full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public ___domain are available.<ref>Carlson Scott and Jeffrey R. Young. "Google Will Digitize and Search Millions of Books From 5 Leading Research Libraries," [http://chronicle.com/dailyarticle/2004Google-Will-Digitize-and/1236405/2004121401n.htm ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', December 14, 2004.]</ref><ref>Carnevale, Dan. "U. of Michigan Unveils Its Book-Scanning Contract With Google," [http://chronicle.com/dailyarticle/2005U-of-Michigan-Unveils-Its/06121167/2005062001t.htm ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', June 20, 2005] </ref><ref> Foster, Andrea L. [http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006020702t.htm "U. of Michigan president Defends Library's Role in Controversial Google Scanning Project,"] [http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Michigan-President/22518/ ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', February 7, 2006. {{dead link|date=February] 2013}}</ref>
According to the [[University of Michigan Library|University of Michigan University Library]], they embarked on this partnership for a number of reasons:
