[Web4lib] Enhanced E-book Service

[Emanuel, Jennifer E]

I'm hardly the most knowledgable person on HathiTrust, but I am doing some work for them and my institution is contributing.

Yes, you can search for specific text within a book.  However, if you are not at an institution that has rights to the item, you can just see where your search happens within the book.   The search portal is at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/   I'm not sure if you can search Hathi full text items from an outside interface/discovery system. There is an API, but I believe it is just bibliographic data and most get the data from OAI.  But that isn't my area at all--I'm an interface person.

There is a lot of work going on to improve the Hathi site, so hopefully things will be slightly less fuzzy in the near future.

Jenny


On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Norma Jean Hewlett wrote:

>> From today's Chronicle of Higher Education blog:
> mprove your use of Google Books with Mirlyn and Hathi Trust
> 
> October 12, 2010, 11:00 am
> 
> By Natalie Houston <http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/nhouston/>
> http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/improve-your-use-of-google-books-with-mirlyn-and-hathi-trust/27600?p=27600?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
> or
> http://bit.ly/b5PkwR
> 
> "... When the Google Library
> Project<http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html>began in
> 2004...the University of Michigan began including links in
> Mirlyn <http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/>, their library catalog, to the Google
> Books digital copy of items already held in their collections. In some
> instances, due to the order in which Google’s scanning and processing takes
> place, these links go to a copy that was digitized from another Google
> Library partner. The Michigan Digitization
> Project<http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project>will
> eventually digitize all items in Michigan’s collections...."
> 
> However, the article doesn't say whether this includes the ability to search
> for specific text within the book.
> 
> Jean Hewlett
> University of San Francisco
> 
> I
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Jenny Emanuel
Digital Resources & Reference Librarian
University of Illinois
300 Library, MC-522
Urbana, IL 61801
emanuelj at illinois.edu
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