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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 0.2% full text? Yowch! > > Do academic libraries with full-text versions of the book on their > shelves really want to point people to no-preview pages on Google. In the example I show on the slides to which I pointed, the link to Google is displayed only for books for which partial previews exist. For this, the use case is clear - users can browse at least some pages of the book before deciding to head to the library to check the book out. > > Doing LCCNs and OCLC numbers for older books is a must. Yes, I'll repeat the experiments for LCCNs and OCLC numbers if I have time. In the LoC dataset, only about 3.2 of about 7.5 million records had ISBNs. - Godmar