[Web4lib] Query: union search for online books

[Roy Tennant]

I guess you did have some trouble searching, since these books are clearly
there:

Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300734848

Pygmalion
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263038124

The Principles of Mechanics
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300605972

These are probably most easily located by using the simple search box on the
front page, such as "josiah gibbs elementary principles" and then selecting
"Internet Resource" as a filter on the left of the search results. In every
case I had the record within seconds.
Roy


On 3/16/09 3/16/09 € 1:34 PM, "Henry Gladney" <hgladney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Re: use of WorldCat
> 
> No results match your search for *'ti:Elementary Principles in Statistical
> Mechanics au:Gibbs, Josiah
> Willard<http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AElementary+Principles+in+Statist
> ical+Mechanics+au%3AGibbs%2C+Josiah+Willard&qt=facetNavigation>'
>> 'English<http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AElementary+Principles+in+Stati
>> 
stical+Mechanics+au%3AGibbs%2C+Josiah+Willard&qt=facetNavigation&fq=ln%3Aeng>>>
'
>> 'Internet 
>> Resource<http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AElementary+Principles+in+Stati
>> stical+Mechanics+au%3AGibbs%2C+Josiah+Willard&qt=facetNavigation&fq=ln%3Aeng+
>> %3E+dt%3Aurl>'
>> '1850..1910'*.
> 
> No results match your search for *'ti:Pymalion
> au:Shaw<http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3APymalion+au%3AShaw&qt=facetNavig
> ation>'
>> 'English<http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3APymalion+au%3AShaw&qt=facetNav
>> igation&fq=ln%3Aeng>'
>> 'Internet Resource'*.
> 
> I also looked for Goethe's Faust in German, and Heinrich Hertz's Principles
> of Mechanics (english translation) without finding online versions via
> WorldCat.  For these, Google searches worked, but even they required more
> effort than would be needed by a good federated search service.
> 
> BTW, the difficulty experienced with WorldCat led me to provide
> comment/suggestion feedback to that site's managers.
> 
> Best wishes, Henry
> 
> H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.     HMG Consulting http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/
> (408)867-5454
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:53, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Are these digitized book records finding their way into WorldCat?
>> 
>> Brian Gray
>> mindspiral at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Henry Gladney <hgladney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> In recent years several giant digitizations of (mostly) out-of-copyright
>>> books have been mounted, some by commercial enterprises and some by
>>> academic
>>> institutions.  My relatively cursory Google search has not led me to a Web
>>> service from which one can mount a search that inspects a large fraction
>>> of
>>> these to determine whether or not a book (or a scholarly article) is
>>> available in digital form.  (I am aware of Google Book Search (see
>>> http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html ) but currently
>>> believe its scope to be limited.)
>>> 
>>> I wonder, has the kind of service been programmed and made available?  (I
>>> believe that providing it would be a relatively straightforward
>>> programming
>>> task.  If not, perhaps some list member will take it on.)   If you know of
>>> an example, I would be grateful for a pointer to it.  I suspect that other
>>> members of this distribution list would be as interested as I am.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes, Henry
>>> 
>>> H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.     HMG Consulting http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/
>>> (408)867-5454
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