Google+Books

d http://books.google.com/

 **How is the archive portal designed? text-based? image-based? text and image, white background, object (book) on foreground **   **What kind of use and users does it seem to invite? those who already know what they're looking for? those who are just exploring?** both, it works like google – the search is the central function – but you can browse

 **How easy is it to search the archive? how flexible are the search tools?** very easy to search, the well-known and user-friendly Google format

 **How structured or open is the archive interface? does it guide the user through the collection? does it offer few guided paths for the user? There always links to related materials or articles, i.e. pretty open interface **

 **How are the primary (archival) materials presented? with lots of context? without any context? are the primary materials manipulable? i.e. zoom in and out? with and without frames?** The materials are presented without context, you have to go looking for pub date and other details. You can do several things to the materials – zoom, jump to next page or any page, cut a piece out, link to it, download it, and more

 = The Google digital library row explained - a summary of what is happening, and perhaps to come, by Philip Jones =

===Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - a review/critique of Google Books by Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguistics professor at UC Berkeley===