“Hundreds of Titles,” “Dozens of Publishers”—Magazines Going Into Google Book Search by Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (Dec 18)
Barbara Quint manages to get more information about the magazines being included in Google Book Search, although Google, as always, will not provide a list of titles.
"However, the articles will carry a "Magazine" tag, which users can search in the Advanced Search mode. Magazines will come into Google Book Search (http://books.google.com) from the Publisher partner side of the service rather than from Library partners, with Google offering free digitization. Some of the magazine content in Google Book Search will come from other Google interfaces (e.g., Google News Archive) and some from the main Google service (e.g., TIME magazine)."
+ will see articles in full colour
+ can browse through an issue
+ limit to a specific magazine by using the ISSN
+ GBS also has journals from its digitization of library bound periodicals. These are treated as Google Scholar items. They will not be marked as magazines.
This is quite the endeavour that will have some effect on Google.com as well. There is more to come. Read the article to get all the details.
Posted by Gwen at December 18, 2008 08:01 PM