Many popular magazines are now included in Google books cover-to-cover. One can search the whole lot, or within individual titles. Two of the titles which might be of interest to readers of this news are Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. The listing by title (cover) is here:
http://books.google.com/books?as_pt=MAGAZINES&rview=1.
Don’t expect the very latest issues! The inclusive dates differ for each title.
Source: ResearchBuzz [tara@researchbuzz.com]
The Chronicle of Higher Education on Monday, October 13, 2008, has announced the formation of a giant library to serve as a back-up for Google Books, designated as the HathiTrust.
"The…HathiTrust, …consists of the members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of the 11 universities in the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago, and the 10 campuses in the University of California system. The University of Virginia is joining the project, it will be announced today, and officials hope to bring in other colleges as well."
Already HathiTrust (a shared digital respository ), contains the full text of more than two million books scanned by Google. However, only about 16 percent of the books in HathiTrust—or about 327,000 volumes—are out of copyright so that their full text can be delivered to all readers.
To read the whole article: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/5061n.htm