To google or not to google, that is the question: Supplementing google book search to make it more useful for scholarship

Journal of Library Administration

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 141-150

  Martin, Shawn ^a  

^a 4186 Shapiro Library   (United States)

Author keywords

E text; Enhancing; Optical character recognition; Retrieving; Searching; Text Creation Partnership

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650932643     PISSN: 01930826     EISSN: 15403564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01930820802111025     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Review "Google Books: What's not to Like" (April 30, 2007), . (Accessed August 17, 2007).
2. More information about the TCP project is available at . (Accessed August 17, 2007). There are also several articles written about it including several by Mark Sandler, the founder of the project.
3. See Mark Sandler, "New Uses for the World's Oldest Books: Democratizing Access to Historic Corpora," ARL Bimonthly Report, 232 (February 2004): 4-6.
4. Mark Sandler, "The Early English Books Online C Text Creation Partnership," The Charleston Advisor, 4, no. 4 (April 2003): 47-49.
5. For a more complete overview of the different kinds of research that people are doing with TCP collections, see Shawn Martin, "Collaboration in Electronic Scholarly Communication: New Possibilities for Old Books" Journal of the Association for History and Computing, IX, No. 2 (October, 2006), . (Accessed August 17, 2007).
6. The University of Michigan Library has actually already begun work onan interface for its books digitized by Google. More information about this is available at .
7. Available at . (Accessed August 17, 2007).
8. Available at . (Accessed August 17, 2007).
9. For more information about the differences between traditional and electronic scholarship, and the needs to move the digital humanities forward, see Shawn Martin, "Digital Scholarship and Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities: Lessons from the Text Creation Partnership," Journal of Electronic Publishing, 10, No. 1 (January, 2007), . (Accessed August 17, 2007).
10. More specific information about these projects is also available in Shawn Martin, "Digital Scholarship and Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities: Lessons from the Text Creation Partnership," Journal of Electronic Publishing, 10, No. 1 (January, 2007), . (Accessed August 17, 2007). 9. John Unsworth et al. "Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences," (December 13, 2006) pp. 48-49 . (Accessed August 17, 2007).