Re: Google books

[Michael Barton <darwinsbulldog@gmail.com>]

Just want to make sure folks know about Internet Archive
(http://www.archive.org/)

For example, a search for "paleontology":
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=paleontology%20AND%20mediatype:texts

And for "dinosaur":
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=dinosaur%20AND%20mediatype:texts

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Michael D. Barton
Butte, MT
History Graduate Student
Montana State University-Bozeman
Email: darwinsbulldog@gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:17 PM, <Danvarner@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Mike Everhart has asked me to  pass this message on to the DML. DV
>
> All,
>
> Many of you may know  about this already, but I thought I would share
> something about Google Books  that is new to me....
>
> Clicking on this URL will get you to the Google  Books site....
>
> http://books.google.com/books
>
> Lots of books... and  a ton of LIFE magazines to browse through... (a fun
> way to waste some  time).
>
> .... but did you know that you can also look at digitized copies  of dozens
> of scientific journals?  .... and go back to Volume 1 of the  American
> Journal of Science, The American Naturalist, Science, Quarterly Journal  of 
> the
> Geological Society of London, etc?..... That's way back.... to the early
> 1800s and beyond in some cases.... My oldest download to date is:
>
>
> Camper, P. 1786. Conjectures relative to the petrifications found in  St.
> Peters Mountain near Maastricht. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
> Society London. 76:443-456, pls.  15-16.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> If  you are looking for an old article, just input the name of the
> journal.... after  it pops up, usually at the top of the column, select "Full 
> view
> only" at the  left side of the screen, then click on "More editions" under
> the journal  title....
>
> You should be able to go back to the volume / year that you  want using the
> Google "next" feature at the bottom of the page.
>
> Once  you've found the volume, you can either go to index, or the page
> number of the  article..... In many cases, in the index the article titles in
> blue are linked  to the article
>
> Of course, you can read it online if you want, or download  the whole
> volume as a pdf, but if you want to just save a copy of the paper, use  the
> "Clip" function at the top right side of the screen...
>
> Highlight the  page you want to copy, and a small box will be superimposed
> on the page.... If  you copy the URL for the IMAGE, you should get something
> that looks like  this:
>
> http://bo
> oks.google.com/books?id=f6IUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1otoutqlMCKzFMhrejXLDnQhZLbQ&ci=92%2C105%2C774%2C1124&edge=0
>
> ...  you can paste it into your browser, click on it, and then see a .png
> image file  of the page that you can save.....
>
> The png files (some figures are .jpgs)  can be pasted into a program like
> Adobe InDesign (or PageMaker) to create a  pdf...... The pdfs are usually
> fairly small in size.
>
> .... Sounds a bit  complicated at first, but the process is really easy
> once you get into it...  I've created more than a hundred pdfs regarding the
> paleontology work done in  Kansas and elsewhere during the 1800s....
>
> Note that tracking down some  older articles can be something like solving
> a puzzle.... Papers are often cited  by the date that they were presented
> orally, not by the date that the journal  was actually published.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Mike Everhart
> Adjunct  Curator of Paleontology
> Sternberg Museum of Natural History
> Fort Hays  State University, Hays, KS
>