Google Books and WorldCat: A comparison of their content

Online Information Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 507-516

  Chen, Xiaotian ^a  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Google Books; Google Books coverage; Online catalogues; WorldCat

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DIGITAL FORMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GOOGLE BOOKS; GOOGLE BOOKS COVERAGE; LOCAL LIBRARIES; ONLINE CATALOGUE; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEARCH RESULTS; WORLDCAT;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84865460460     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521211254031     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Clancy, D. (2009), "Session 3. The Google Books settlement and the future of information access", conference video recording, available at: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090828googlebooksconference/ video3 (accessed 5 July 2011).
2. Dougherty, W. (2010), "The Google Books Project: will it make libraries obsolete?", Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 36 No. 1, pp. 86-9.
3. Duguid, D. (2007), "Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books", First Monday, Vol. 12 No. 4, available at: http://firstmonday.org/ htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/1972/1847 (accessed 1 November 2010).
4. Jackson, J. (2010), "Google: 129 million different books have been published", PC World, 7 August, available at: www.pcworld.com/article/ 202803/google-129-million-different-books-have-been-published.html (accessed 16 February 2011).
5. Johnson, E. (2009), "Google Book Search coverage of core clinical textbooks", paper presented at Positioning the Profession: the Tenth International Congress on Medical Librarianship, available at: http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:179767/n6-4-Fri-Johnson-71.pdf (accessed 1 November 2010).
6. Jones, E. (2010), "Google Books as a general research collection", Library Resources & Technical Services, Vol. 54 No. 2, pp. 77-89.
7. Langley, A. and Bloomberg, D. (2006), "Google Books: making the public domain universally accessible", Proceedings of SPIE -Volume 6500, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, available at: www.imperialviolet.org/binary/google-books-pdf.pdf (accessed 16 February 2011).
8. Ludwig, M. and Wells, M. (2008), "Google Books vs BISON: is the BISON Catalog going the way of its namesake?", Library Journal, Vol. 133 No. 11, pp. 30-3.
9. Marinaro, T. (2004), "Searching for profits with Amazon -inside the book and in the margins", Publishing Research Quarterly, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 3-8.
10. Metz, C. (2009), "Google Book Search -is it the last library?", The New Register, 29 August, available at: www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/29/ google-books/(accessed 5 July 2011).
11. Nunberg, G. (2009), "Googlés Book Search: a disaster for scholars", The Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 August, available at: http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/(accessed 1 November 2010).
12. Oder, N. (2009), "Google, the last library, and millions of metadata mistakes", Library Journal, 3 September, available at: www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6687562.html (accessed 19 July 2011).
13. Sewell, A. (2010), "Google Books adds tool", The Los Angeles Times, 17 December, Part AA, p. 2.
14. Vincent, L. (2007), "Google Book Search: document understanding on a massive scale", Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 2, p. 819, available at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi:10.1.1.106.1605&rep: rep1&type:pdf (accessed 1 November 2010).
15. Wilkin, J. (2009), "HathiTrust and the Google Deal", Library Journal, Vol. 134 No. 1, pp. 42-3.