Friday, October 29, 2010

Using Google Books

Have always meant to explore this site. It is not immediatly apparent how to search for fully digitised books. Found the option in Advanced Search by ticking the "Full View Only". A search for the subject dentistry showed only 8 books. Could not see any information on how they decide on their subjects. Of course the results only show full text of non copyright books. It will be interesting to see, if Google win the right to sell copyright books, how the service will change . It will become far more valuable if this happens.

I found it useful  to be able to preview books that are under copyright, and which gives you an idea if you want to actually buy the book.  You can do this in Amazon but not sure if you can do this to the same extent. Another useful feature is being able to export bibliographic details into EndNote.

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