Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Google Books is full of surprises! In surveying medical journals in Google Books, I discovered that volumes of British Medical Journal circa 1880 scanned at Harvard have extensive sections devoted to advertisements. Most libraries, when they bind issues of journals and magazines into bound volumes, very reasonably remove pages ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
The list presented here has FULL VIEW (public domain, pre-1923) journals in Google Books. This is certainly NOT intended to be a complete list! There's no easy way that I have found to limit a search in Google Books to journals, so I have found these titles by searching for ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Until now, books with pictures, especially color pictures, have been a relatively small part of Google Books. But the addition of highly visual, popular magazines changes this -- The titles added so far are filled with pictures!
On one level, more pictures in Google Books is gratifying -- a theme ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
When I started this list in Dec, 2008, Google did not provide a list of their own -- Thankfully, they provided one in Nov, 2009 (their announcement is Here, their list is Here). Assuming they keep up their list, I will probably not add to the list provided here. Comparing ...
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