The recently announced Hathi Trust initiative will hopefully
make millions of digitized books searchable and available in new ways.
After Roy Tennant had already made an attempt at providing an
experimental search device for the metadata, here's another one:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/hathi/
This one is based on browsing rather than searching, although there
is keyword searching as well.
The most useful browse index is probably the title phrase index.
Just give it a try.
The title display provides a link branching into a GB search.
(BTW, anyone who wants to find out whether or not G. already has a
scan, may issue a direct search for the title, using this pattern:
http://books.google.de/books?as_vt="xyz"
with xyz the title phrase of your choice. Thus, for a known-item
search, GB itself is probably good enough, and more comprehensive
anyhow than Hathi, at present.)
Data are current, but non-latin scripts not included. That makes it
1.72 million titles as of yesterday. (Daily update would be an easy
matter.)
B.Eversberg
Received on Thu Oct 09 2008 - 02:20:11 EDT