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- Title
A Comparison of HathiTrust and Google Books Using Federal Publications.
- Authors
Sare, Laura
- Abstract
This study compares the functionality of the Google Books and HathiTrust online repositories using federal government publications. From a random sample of more than 1,500 government documents, record overlap between the two databases was also examined. Functionality, such as ease of finding specific government publication titles, citation extraction, as well as the quality of metadata, in each repository is assessed in this article. Also addressed in this study is a look at the quality of bibliographic records for these repositories contained in the WorldCat database. This study found that Google Books and HathiTrust have unique strengths and weaknesses, as well as content and functionality overlap. The results of this study help to inform librarians which repository is best suited for federal document retrieval and patron needs.
- Subjects
GOOGLE Books (Web resource); GOVERNMENT publications; DATABASES; WORLDCAT; CITATION analysis; METADATA; DATA quality; BIBLIOGRAPHIC databases
- Publication
Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA, 2012, Vol 2, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1947-0037
- Publication type
Article