[WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit

[David Goodman]

I forgot to mention that the G Book interface has a list of links on
the left , headed: Get this book. First it lists commercial sources,
and then it almost always lists:  "Find this book in a library". That
link takes you to the record for the book in WorldCat. You can use the
necessary part directly, or:

The WorldCat interface has at the top under the search box
"Cite/Export" giving a choice of formats--I usually pick Turabian. The
proper reference will appear, except that you need to add the ISBN
from the main record also.

Probably this can be automated.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:26 PM, David Goodman<dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> "1. Do we have an approved and sensible citation style for GB?
>
> The point is that some people simply paste in the very long GB URL for a
> page. I tend to do the other thing, which is to treat it no differently
> from a book I have open in front of me."
>
> You do both.
>
> As I understand it , the standard way  at WP of citing anything from
> GNews and the like, which I think   applies to GBooks also, is to cite
> the actual published work as an ordinary book, including the page
> number, and then add the link as a convenience link in the for [http:
> whatever  Google Books]. The cite books template also has a place to
> do it.
>
> The rationale is that it is absolutely essential to give a source that
> can be used in a library by anyone to obtain the book either there or
> via interlibrary loan. It's also necessary though to say where you
> actually found the reference--hence the link to GBooks. All such refs
> to the Googles and similar convenience links, such as Proquest and
> Lexis and JSTOR )  need to be checked and if necessary upgraded.
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
>
>
>
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