A very conscientious graduate student was trying to use Google Books to try to read publications that he can not access any other way. It does provide the full text of books whose copyright has expired. Thus librarians can suggest that students use it to obtain older literature. Today, the student was trying to find books on Raman spectroscopy. He was frustrated since the books that he needed only allowed certain pages to be viewed. The help page made the following statement:
Many of the books you can preview on Google Books are still in copyright, and are displayed with the permission of publishers and authors. You can browse these "limited preview" titles just as you would in a bookstore, but you won't be able to see more pages than the copyright holder has made available.
When you've accessed the maximum number of pages allowed for a book, any remaining pages will be omitted from your preview. You can order full copies of any book using the "Get this book" links to the side of the preview page
Publishers provide the preview to try to sell their books. The student felt that random pages from each book were offered as samples.
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