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Google books' coverage of Hawai'i and Pacific books

Author(s) -

Weiss Andrew,

James Ryan

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

proceedings of the american society for information science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1550-8390

pISSN - 0044-7870

DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504901262

Subject(s) - metadata , snippet , library science , information retrieval , computer science , world wide web , history

This poster reports on a recent quantitative study of Google Books' coverage of Hawaiian and Pacific books using the University of Hawaii's collection as a benchmark. A total of 1,500 books were randomly selected from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Hawaiian, Pacific, and general stacks collections. Their level of access was then determined in Google Books by observing whether the books had a metadata record, were full‐text searchable, and whether they were available in snippet, preview, or full‐text views. Results show that Google Books has a sizable number of metadata records for Hawaiian and Pacific books, but has only a limited number available for full‐text searching. In contrast, a larger number of books from the general stacks were available for full‐text searching.

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