Google Print Adds Magazines

The beta Google Print project has added some magazine articles to the book extracts it has had previously. I am not sure when they first started adding these, but I have not seen them before today. It looks like it includes some short full text articles from several Reed Business Information publications such as Electronic News, Test & Measurement World, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. The title of each of these is preceded by [MAGAZINE] instead of [BOOK]. Try a search such as site:print.google.com magazine to see some more.

Compared to any of the major full-text databases from Gale, Ebsco, ProQuest, or Factiva (and often available at public and academic libraries), this is a very small collection of articles. Like most of the Google Print records, few searchers are likely to even come across these. Even the free (and significantly smaller) FindArticles.com and MagPortal databases are better than this, but it will depend upon how much Google expands their collection (and whether they offer a separate interface to just these articles and book extracts).