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A-to-Z tweak: magazines from Google books

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Yesterday, I spotted (thanks @calire) that Google books have created a page that lets you browse their available magazine titles.

I can’t resist a free journal.

So I copied-&-pasted the entire page into MS Excel, used a handy function to extract the underlying URLs from the hyperlinked titles, did a bit of search-&-replace to make the list fit EBSCO’s data structure, and hey presto!

87 magazines from Google books on the E-journals A-to-Z

Image: a Google magazine, yesterday.

Image: a Google magazine, yesterday.

I also did a bit of bodging with EBSCO’s custom notes to pull in the journal cover images (c.f. what I did with ScienceDirect).

The whole thing will need re-creating every so often, but it’s only a 10-minute job.

Thank you, Google.

Written by Paul Stainthorp

November 11th, 2009 at 11:49 am

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