Google is now indexing AND displaying magazines in Google book Search! Here’s the blog entry where they describe it:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html
There’s no mention of a titles list, and there’s clearly some limitations on these (Check out Jet, for instance…they only have every 5th year of the mag). Popular Science is there in its entirety, but only 2000-Feb 2008.
But in any case…it’s an interesting development. If Google decides not to provide a titles list, is anyone interested in crowdsourcing it? Where can we dump the resulting data so that it’s harvestable?
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Pretty cool isn’t it, but I believe you’re mistaken about Popular Science. As I’ve mentioned it’s available from May 1872 and beyond.
Here’s a start on a titles list …
http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardinmd/2008/12/10/google-magazines-titles/
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