Full Text Search: The Open Library Now Allows Users to “Search Inside” More than 4 Million Books
The Open Library is an Internet Archive initiative.
From an Open Library Blog Post:
One feature which Open Library has been missing is a way to limit Internet Archive’s full-text search to only include results from books on Open Library. So for the last two years, Open Library has patiently waited to take full advantage of full-text search for its users.
Earlier this week, Gio [Damiola (@giovannidamiola] released an improvement to our full-text search engine which lets us get around this historical limitation — and so we jumped on this opportunity to improve our search on openlibrary.org!
Learn More, Read the Complete Blog Post
Resources
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Direct to Open Library “Search Inside” Interface
See Also: Searching Through Everything (Full Text Search on Archive.org; October 26, 2016)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.