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The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
In a full-text search, a search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to match search criteria (for example, text specified by a user). Full-text-searching techniques appeared in the 1960s, for example IBM STAIRS from 1969, and became common in online bibliographic databases in the 1990s. [verification needed ...
Book series Author(s) Original language No. of installments Years of Publication Approximate sales Harry Potter: J. K. Rowling: English: 7 + 3 companion books + 4 scripts: 1997–2007: 600 million [14] [193] [194] Goosebumps: R. L. Stine: English: 62 + spin-off series: 1992–present: 400 million [195] Perry Mason: Erle Stanley Gardner: English ...
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily ...
In other series, the changes are major and the books must be read in order to be fully enjoyed. Examples of this type include the Harry Potter series. There are some book series that are not really proper series, but more of a single work so large that it must be published over two or more books.
This is the first book of Baker's The Company series, all of which involve time travel. 1997 Making History: Stephen Fry: Two men in the present attempt to prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. 1997 To Say Nothing of the Dog: Connie Willis: A comedy in which historians travel back in time to find an artifact for a wealthy woman.