Does anyone know, does "Limited Preview" always mean that "search
inside the book" capability is there, or might "limited preview" just
mean a table of contents or something without search inside the book?
Is there any way to tell from the GBS API response if search inside the
book (with excerpts only in results) is enabled, when full text isn't
present?
Jonathan
Popp, Mary Pagliero wrote:
> Hi! We found all of the information that has been sent by others to be very helpful in setting up our GoogleBooks link inside the Indiana University Libraries catalog, IUCAT. Our installation went live this past Sunday, June 1.
>
> We took a different approach; we actually linked buttons to the different types of views from GoogleBooks. We have three different types of buttons:
> Full text (linking directly to the screen where full text exists)
> Limited Preview
> More Information (linking to books with metadata and snippet views)
>
> To see these, check out our catalog at:
> http://www.iucat.iu.edu
>
> To see examples of the different buttons search for:
>
> The life of Abraham Lincoln, by Henry Ketcham (1901). - Full text
>
> Bonds of affection: civic charity and the making of America-Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln, by Matthew Scott Holland (2007) - Limited Preview
>
> President Lincoln: the duty of a statesman, by William Lee Miller (2008) - More Information
>
>
> --Gary Charbonneau and Mary Popp, Indiana University Libraries
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kraus, Hilary
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:08 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples
>
> Oops! Sorry, keyboard shortcut sent that one a bit early.
>
> Starting over:
>
> Thanks very much to everyone who responded with examples of their
> implementations of the GBS content; I've summarized those examples
> below. Since I'm interested more in look and feel than the technical
> details of the implementations, I'm including mainly links with a little
> description, snipping the longer technical explanations.
>
> Examples of OPACs that have added buttons or links for the Google
> content:
>
> Google Books and Amazon:
> http://library.willamette.edu/search~S1/c?SEARCH=DF+229+.T5+J6#
>
> Individually adapted link to Google Book Search on a full title view
> page: http://opac.fh-burgenland.at/
>
> Google Books and Google Book covers: http://cf.catalog.fcla.edu/cf.jsp/
> (good sample search: bear)
>
> Worldcat.org links to Google Books and to Amazon:
> http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777896&referer=brief_results; Worldcat
> Local inherits this functionality from the Worldcat.org platform with a
> slightly different presentation (UW does not have Amazon links turned on
> here): see
> http://uwashington.worldcat.org/oclc/777896&referer=brief_results
>
> The next major release of Evergreen will have integrated GBS browse
> available by default. You can see it in action here:
> http://dev.gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keywor
> d&tp=keyword&t=shakespeare&f=at The cover art there is provided by
> Syndetics, but as you can see, there are "Browse in Google Book Search"
> links available for those titles that Google has available.
>
> Simple textual links at this point on our III catalog. A few examples of
> our integration: http://kentlink.kent.edu/search/Xnativism ;
> http://kentlink.kent.edu/search/Xwhitman ;
> http://kentlink.kent.edu/search/Xsleepy+hollow. Scroll down until you
> see links: "Information at Google Books" (some content), "Preview at
> Google Books" (more content, some full text), "Read at Google Books"
> (full text). If you're patient enough on the Sleepy Hollow example, and
> scroll down enough, you'll see all three link examples.
>
> We've incorporated Google Books content in addition to our content from
> Syndetics: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2467484 or
> http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2720408 The display of our item
> records is a little off now as we have both Sydetics reviews and
> LibraryThing for Libraries on trial.
>
> At Boston College, we have implemented a link to Google book information
> from the full bib record view. Our catalog is at
> http://www.bc.edu/quest. We also use Syndetics, so we do not display the
> cover image from Google. We recently added the link and we need to tweak
> the display, but it's at the bottom of the bib information for the
> moment.
>
> We have implemented in the OPAC links to Google Books, Amazon, WorldCat,
> and table of contents (this in particular derived from PALNI
> bibliographic records where the contents exist). The results page shows
> these links when relevant to the material. We are looking at inclusion
> on full-display screens as well. Here is an example URL:
> http://hickory.palni.edu:4505/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=p
> lnhup
>
> http://phebe.bowdoin.edu/record=b1000147~S1
>
> We have just implemented links to Google Book Search in the Swedish
> National Union Catalog, LIBRIS. ... Google covers are only displayed
> when no others are available. Regarding the different types of preview,
> we choose to distinguish between the "partial" and "full" previews on
> the one hand, and the "noview", on the other. The two former are
> presented as links in the title presentation, analogue to how we present
> links to freely accessible resources, whereas for books with "noview",
> the Google-links are only displayed in the right column under "Search
> outside LIBRIS". Some examples: "Full preview" + cover from Google:
> http://libris.kb.se/bib/2174999?language=en ; "Partial preview" + cover
> from Google: http://libris.kb.se/bib/4717070?language=en ; "No preview"
> + cover from Nielsen: http://libris.kb.se/bib/10361389?language=en
>
> I hope this is helpful. Thanks again to everyone for their helpful
> responses!
>
> Best,
> Hilary Kraus
>
> Hilary Kraus
> Reference/Instruction Librarian
> hkraus_at_depaul.edu / 773-325-7274
>
>
--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Received on Wed Jun 04 2008 - 15:07:05 EDT