http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/h/1
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2005/08/22/marlein-aus-baden-baden/  http://library.case.edu/ksl/ecoll/books/author.html  Keyword = PDF http://hdl.loc.gov/* finds Ebooks not listed on a LoC website  Mail to the Book People Mailing list

> More details on the news page
> (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/news.html).

Thanks for this step forward.

I think that is'nt enough.

1) All OBP entries should be available via OAI-PMH. Thus harvester
like OAIster can add entries for books which are located on servers
which are not offering itself an OAI interface.

If you do so please make sure that your entries are really Open Acess.
For the background of this request feel free to read
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_03_19_fosblogarchive.html#114313284630816604

2) All OBP entries should have data in MARC format that library
catalogs can use them.

3) Stable URLs are fine but no persistant identifiers. Please
cooperate with a library or another corporation to make sure that they
get persistant like http://purl.oclc.org/ or the URNs.

--

Let me say something to the alternatives of the OBP. I refer to my entry at
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/837865/

There are large collections outside of OBP and all book people should
know more on the alternatives to OBP. OBP isn't the one-stop-solution
as you can read on thousands of websites.

I think few people know the fine working meta-search at Buffalo
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ft/EBooks.html (including the OPB, I
have just tried searching for the keyword chirugie with success)

You can also use OAIster finding Open Access books and you can now
build a meta-search including OAIster meta-data, see
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/sru.html

You can use the new Australian libraries portal to find toll access
and free ebooks worldwide by using the free "Online" limit
http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

(Please note that most German libraries do not have access to OCLC
WorldCat in which you can also limit your search on ebooks.)

You also would have a fine way to find toll access AND free ebooks if
Toronto University Libraries wouldn't be stupid enough to block the
access also to Open Access ressources when you use their e-resources
search interface:

http://main.library.utoronto.ca/

Example: Making of Modern America (UMich) isn't toll access but you
have to extract the handle-URL from the following string to get
immediate access
http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJD5992

Toronto is listing Bartleby.com, UMich and some other free sources and
its own fine collection (800+ books, as far as I know NOT in OBP) at
http://content.library.utoronto.ca/resources/collections/local-collections

Unfortunately since May 19th 2005 only two new item were added, see
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2005/02/09/533-titel/#comments

My knowledge of other local OPAC search possibilities is very limited.
You might wish to know that RIT library has put a great bulk of OPB
entries in its catalog, see e-content finder at
http://albert.rit.edu/search~S1/

There is also a stable URL see e.g. for a project Gutenberg work:
http://albert.rit.edu/record=b1701197

Please send me hints to other OPACs with large numbers of catalogued
free e-resources from several sources (ebooks, not e-journals - the
fine Göteborg work of Jan Szczepanski is another topic). Thank you!  Over 5000 free Ebooks are in
http://websok.libris.kb.se/websearch/form?type=epub

Some Sources (courtesy of Jan Szczepanski, Goteborgs Univ Bib, who has catalogued them)

Fritt tillgänglig via Union acadâemique internationale
Corpus vasorum antiquorum
http://www.cvaonline.org/cva/projectpages/Countrylist.htm
Summa: 238 fria e-böcker 5.4-7.4

Digitale Bibliothek, Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum
http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~mdz/sammlungen.html
Summa: 74 fria e-böcker

Fritt tillgänglig via Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 51 onwards
http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/cgi-bin/somsid.cgi?page=volumes/index&session=935095A
Summa: 48 fria e-böcker

Fritt tillgänglig via Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=pubs
Summa: 288 fria e-böcker 28.3-18.4.06

Fritt tillgänglig via RAND Corporation
http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/
Summa: 144 fria e-böcker 30.1.-1.2.06

Fritt tillgänglig via Cornell University Library
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cdl/browse.html Historical monographs collection
Summa: 81 fria e-böcker 9.2-10.2.06
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/browse.html Historical math monographs
Summa: 240 fria e-böcker 6.2-14.206

Fritt tillgänglig via IDEAS. History of Economic Thought Books, McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://ideas.repec.org/s/hay/hetboo.html
Summa: 304 fria e-böcker 23.2-8.3.06

Fritt tillgänglig via Brookings Institution Press
http://brookings.nap.edu/
Summa: 123 fria e-böcker 20.3-21.3..06

Fritt tillgänglig via Council on Library and Information Resources
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/index.html
Summa: 85 fria e-böcker 16.3.-20.3.06  It is well known that there are serious problems with the search
function and the metadata of Google Book Search. My question to Book
People is: Which other ways do you know to find Google Books?

I recently found that U of Indiana library has 3500+ GBS titles in its catalog.

http://www.iucat.iu.edu/

We have already discussed here on UMich's MBooks program. See also:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3425505/

Private link lists

http://pdbooks.zuhause.org/
very large!

Harvesting Google Print
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jenjonliz/jon/tia/google.html

GOOPFIC collection
http://steinbeck.ucs.indiana.edu/novels/author.html

Project Runeberg
http://runeberg.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search

Link list on bible, judaism and christianity
https://umdrive.memphis.edu/mhooker/google_books-bible_judaism_christianity.html

Women writings in German
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Autorinnen

Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliothek_des_Litterarischen_Vereins_in_Stuttgart