The''' Michigan Digitization Project''' is a project in partnership with [[Google Books]] 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://catalogwww.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/article/Google-Will-Digitize-and/36405/ ''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/article/U-of-Michigan-Unveils-Its/121167/ ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', June 20, 2005]</ref><ref>Foster, Andrea L. "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]</ref>
According to the [[University of Michigan Library|University of Michigan University Library]], they embarked on this partnership for a number of reasons:
