Download Google Books and U Mich Access

An Information Today news break discusses last week's announcement from Google Books that for copyright-free books, users can now download a full PDF of the book.

Even more interesting is the report of the availability of some of these scanned books from with the University of Michigan's online catalog, MIRLYN. Some of the government publications which Google only shows in snippet view are available in full text via Michigan. The problem is to find these. Try going to MIRLYN, click on the Advanced Search link near the top, change the Format limit to "electronic resources," and then you might find one. However this does not just limit to Google. Try adding "Michigan Digitization Project" as a "Words Anywhere" and look for records with links both to "Google Online" and "U-M Online." The latter gives the Michigan version.