Assessing the coverage of Hawaiian and Pacific books in the Google Books digitization project

OCLC Systems and Services

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-21

  Weiss, Andrew ^a   James, Ryan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Google Books; Hawaii; Historically underrepresented groups; Libraries; Massive digital libraries (MDL); Pacific; United States of America; Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

Indexed keywords

GOOGLE BOOKS; HAWAII; HUMAN RIGHTS; MASSIVE DIGITAL LIBRARIES (MDL); PACIFIC; UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

LIBRARIES; METADATA; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84873470796     PISSN: 1065075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650751311294519     Document Type: Review

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