Tuesday, November 25, 2008

THING 15!

I am now doing Thing 15. I am exploring Google Books. However the book I have been asked to search for 'The Missing Manual' by Sarah Milstein worseluck has limited preview on it.

However there is a link to click on Learn More, as it mention that "This is a preview. The total pages displayed will be limited." I've included a link to the book, which is:

http://books.google.com/books?id=sfW6wrHiDnQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Missing+Manual+by+Sarah+Milstein&ei=LaMsSYveFYK0kAS4xKyvBQ#PPR5,M1

I've also included a link to the link that the Learn More hyperlink leads you to. The link to it is:

http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=91570&hl=en

In someways it's good that users of google books are given notice of limited previews. But I think this good still be useful to libraries definitely.

But I could not find anything about Google Books on either Facebook or Myspace.

Now I am going to explore Google Schoolar. An interesting tool. But can be a pest to use. I searched for this title:

SAP NetWeaver For Dummies and it interesting made reference to Victoria University in one of the search results which I got the following:

http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=SAP+NetWeaver+For+Dummies+&btnG=Search

Also I found this when I used the advanced search:

http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/phoenix/phoenix/sp1.pdf

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