Jeff Young, Universities Add Their Own Search of Google Books - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Colleges working with Google on the company's effort to scan millions of library books today unveiled their own search tool to comb the full text of some 500,000 volumes. The tool has a few features that Google lacks, said John P. Wilkin, an associate university librarian for the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is leading the group formed by the colleges, which is called HathiTrust Digital Library. The killer app: HathiTrust's search lists every page that contains a user's search term, where Google's might return a partial list, said Mr. Wilkin...."

Link:

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Universities-Add-Their-Own/8901/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

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Tags:

oa.new oa.search oa.books oa.hathi oa.google.books

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 21:30

Date published:

11/18/2009, 17:08