ABSTRACT
The massive increase in the processing power of computers over the last decade or so and the development of new digital storage forms, such as cloud computing, may seem to offer an almost unlimited capacity for the archiving and dissemination of academic texts. Hence, the realisation of the long-held dream of a universal library, albeit in digital form, does not seem entirely implausible. One corporation that is determined to make this happen is Google. Like the great national legal deposit libraries, Google’s mission is to ‘organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’. 1
