Hi
As of yesterday I have collected 25.683 free e-books that are not in the
Google Book sphere. Mostly
new titles and more than half are not Swedish titles.
As an old fashion librarian I just collect quality material for my
academic users. I have been cherry picking
since 1980, in those days p-books but today I just pick free e-books.
Google Book Search is the last place
I use for collection building. Lately I have started using Internet
Archive as a source in a very small way and
I think it's because Canadian libraries have started participating. My
impression so far is that Internet Archive
can be used but not Google Book Search for serious collection building.
Soon milion of Swedish records will be part of OCLC. That means that my
more than 25.000 titles can be
imported by any library that are doing serious acquisition and just want
to select quality resources and that
don't want to drown in the Google mud or the Michigan mud. My library's
acronyme is Gdig and if you are
going to import titles to your own catalogue just remember to add as a
compensation some free e-books
that you have selected.
Still it's a mystery for me that I am so alone making basic things like
selecting resources to the library. If
only say ten libraries in the world were collecting this kind of
material after three years we could together
have had at least 250.000 free e-books in OCLC and in our own catalogues
say 100.000.
Collection building is a SERIOUS matter and t we shouldn't buy Big Deals
from commercial companies.
That is a disgrace and an insult to our library users!
Time is over for playing. We have to take back the responsibility for
collection building. You can't
leave that to Elsevier or Netlibrary. It's like offering only hamburgers
from MacDonald in every library
all over the world.
I would very much appreciate comments from serious collection builders
but not from technocrats
that believes they always have the quick fix.
Jan
Here is a list of examples from where free e-material has been selected
from and if someone
want's all my over 400 sources I can send it.
eScholarship Editions
http://content.cdlib.org/search?sort=title&relation=escholarship.cdlib.org&style=eschol&rights=Public
<http://content.cdlib.org/search?sort=title&relation=escholarship.cdlib.org&style=eschol&rights=Public>
Summa: ca 500 fria e-böcker
Monumenta Germaniae Historiae digital
http://www.dmgh.de/
Summa: 194 fria e-böcker
European Union Institute for Security Studies
http://www.iss-eu.org/public/content/chaile.html
Summa: 79 fria e-böcker 2.1-3.1 2006
Hoower Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
http://www.hoover.org/publications/books/
Summa: 42 fria e-böcker 20.1.06
Columbia International Affairs Online
http://www.ciaonet.org/frame/indfrm.html
Summa: 127 fria e-böcker 20.1-23.1.06
RAND Corporation
http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/
Summa: 144 fria e-böcker 1.2.06
Summa: 67 fria e-böcker 2.3.07
Cornell University Library
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cdl/browse.html Historical
monographs collection
Summa: 81 fria e-böcker 10.2.06
Summa: 14 fria e-böcker 3.5.07
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/browse.html Historical math
monographs
Summa: 240 fria e-böcker 6.2-14.206
Fritt tillgänglig via IDEAS. History of Economic Thought Books, McMaster
University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://ideas.repec.org/s/hay/hetboo.html
Summa: 304 fria e-böcker 23.2-8.3.06
Summa: 23 fria e-böcker 9.5.07
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Do the Michigan OAI records still have an OCLCnum in them, or has that been removed too?
>
> If they have an OCLC number, then an OCLC cataloging member could easily use the WorldCat API to automatically fetch the actual full straight-from-OCLC record for the item in question.
>
> If they do not.... well, limiting access to good metadata hurts all of our work.
>
> Interestingly, if the records have an internal U of M accession number but not an OCLCnumber, you could possibly use Bill Dueber's excellent API to Merlyn (the U of M catalog) to first fetch an OCLCnum (if available) for a given U of M bib id, then use WorldCat to fetch the full record. A kind of crazy process to compensate for OCLC-enforced access restrictions, but, we take what we can.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>>>> Frances Dean McNamara <fdmcnama_at_UCHICAGO.EDU> 11/13/08 11:07 AM >>>
>>>>
> Yes. Michigan made available an OAI feed of MARC records for out of copyright materials. The MARC records are dummed down, so authors lack birth and death dates, subject headings lack subdivisions, corporate headings only have subfield a ...
>
> Options are described at:
>
> http://www.hathitrust.org/bibliographic_data_distribution
>
> MARC Edit has an OAI harvester that will pick them up. You can load to your catalog, or you might want to use MARC Edit to edit them and then load.
>
> Frances McNamara
> University of Chicago
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:56 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] Google Books question
>
>
> I saw this question on another list. Does anyone on NGC4LIB have any helpful info?
>
> "Some of our users think that they've seen where some libraries/consortia have loaded records for Google Books that they don't actually own, e.g., the Michigan records... either that or they've heard from someone who's heard from someone that this has been done. All the examples we've been pointed to turn out to be cases where the links to Google are on records for owned print versions. Have any of you acquired and loaded non-owned records for any of freely-available digitized books - Google or otherwise? If so, how did you go about getting the records. If not, do you know anyone who has?"
>
> Bernie Sloan
> Sora Associates
> Bloomington, IN
>
>
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De åsikter som framförs här är mina personliga
och inte ett uttryck för Göteborgs universitets-
biblioteks hållning
Opinions expressed here are my own and not
that of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek
Jan Szczepanski
Förste bibliotekarie
Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek
Box 222
SE 405 30 Goteborg, SWEDEN
Tel: +46 31 7861164 Fax: +46 31 163797
E-mail: Jan.Szczepanski_at_ub.gu.se
Received on Fri Nov 14 2008 - 03:16:21 EST