Magazine initiative from Google Book Search

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>
wrote:
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html
> Today, we're announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and
> current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing
> millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular
> Mechanics, and Ebony. [etc.]
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> I don't see a complete list of magazines, but when you do find a magazine
> they've scanned you can browse all available issues or search within those
> issues. Here's "Ebony", covering 1973 to 1979:
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=r9QDAAAAMBAJ

Sorry, there are actually scanned issues of "Ebony" from 1962 to 2008. Very
scattered coverage so far, though.


--Ben Zimmer

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