The Online Books Page

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The Online Books Page is an American digital library .

overview

In a first step, a question to this reference database on the Internet is answered with references to digital copies from holdings of over two million books. If there are hits, in a second step one of the digital copies can be read online from a North American library server or can be freely downloaded. In the latter step, the majority of the use cases are forwarded to Project Gutenberg , HathiTrust or Internet Archive .

The computer scientist John Mark Ockerbloom designed and established the database in 1993. He has been leading the project since 1999 with Alison Miner at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Interrogate

Usually the user asks for the “title” or the “author” of the desired digitized book. The restriction "Search by author and title" is also possible. With this conventional search, users outside North America all too often find themselves incapacitated in the first step mentioned above with the repellent copyright notice "US access only".

In addition, an overview of the database contents, sorted according to "subject areas", can be obtained:

Abbreviation Subject
A. Complete overview
B. Philosophy, psychology, religion
C, D, E, F history
G Geography, anthropology , folklore , recreation
H Social sciences
J Political science
K Law
L. education
M. music
N Fine arts
P Language and literature
Q science
R. medicine
S. Agriculture
T technology
U Military science
V shipping
Z Bibliography and Library Science

In this case, the subject area is accessed via the link Overview .

There are a few other useful calls. New entries can be called up via “NEW LISTINGS”. "SERIALS" provide an overview of periodicals . "ARCHIVES AND INDEXES" refer to external digital libraries in the network.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eng. University of Pennsylvania Libraries
  2. ↑ eng. Recreation
  3. ↑ eng. Fine art