[Web4lib] Query: union search for online books

[Henry Gladney]

Thank you.  Will consider.

Best wishes, Henry

H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.     HMG Consulting http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/
(408)867-5454


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:17, Tom Keays <tomkeays.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something you might be interested in, although Google books is not one
> of the options, is a variation of xOCLCNUM that allows you to restrict
> to ebooks. They seem to support searches against HathiTrust and
> Archive.org (Open Content Alliance) at the moment.
>
> For example, for Don Quixote, there is a recent, copyrighted edition at
> http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51848364
>
> but you can use xOCLCNUM to do a FRBR type search against it in
> WorldCat to return freely available ebook versions of it.
>
>
> http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/oclcnum/51848364?method=getEditions&format=txt&library=ebook&fl=oclcnum,url
>
> returns
>
> 3754501 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015015205035
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015015205043
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015015205050
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015015205068
> 751918  http://www.archive.org/details/lifeexploitsofin01cerv
> 807350  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063843083
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063843067
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063843059
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063843075
> 4123288 http://www.archive.org/details/ingeniousgentlem03cerv
> http://www.archive.org/details/theingeniousgent01cerv
> http://www.archive.org/details/theingeniousgent02cerv
> 465222  http://www.archive.org/details/lifeexploitsofin02cerviala
> 4730463 http://www.archive.org/details/ingeniousgentlem02cerv
> http://www.archive.org/details/ingeniousgentlem01cerv
> 2616263 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015054073138
> 2359234 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015008012273
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015001782765
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019987737
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019978728
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015008012281
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020001304
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020001312
> 2616293 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004174465
> 28229439        http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063843091
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062692135
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063843109
> 67403865        http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027196545
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015006601697
>
> This was the subject of a blog post and xOCLCNUM documentation
> http://worldcat.org/devnet/blog/2008/12/support_hathitrustorg_in_xoclc.html
> http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/api.htm#searchinalibrary
>
> They note that you could also use xISBN, but fewer out of copyright
> ebooks have ISBN numbers.
>
> Tom
>
> 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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