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The Fresh Fruits from the Digital World: Google Opens Books to New Cultural Studies
Posted by acohen in Library Planning Research, Social Library Issues, work in progress on December 18th, 2010
In the Journal Science (17 December 2010: Vol. 330 no. 6011 p. 1600), a published study illustrated the Digital Library and its power. The article illustrates that E-resources and historical datasets can be used for sociological study. It were made possible by Google Doc’s and Harvard researchers. Together they “made it possible to rigorously study the evolution of culture on a grand scale.”