图书馆数字化遗漏了什么：预测英语小说数字替代品的可用性
What Library Digitization Leaves Out: Predicting the Availability of Digital Surrogates of English Novels
摘要：
图书馆数字化使超过10万本19世纪的英语书籍向公众开放。数字化的图书是否反映了出版图书的数量？一个肯定的答案将允许图书和文学历史学家使用主要数字图书馆的馆藏作为已出版作品数量的代表，从而节省他们收集代表性样本的劳动。我们利用1836年和1838年首次在不列颠群岛出版的小说的详尽书目来解决这个问题，确定这些小说中的哪些在互联网档案馆，HathiTrust，谷歌图书和大英图书馆中至少有一个数字代理。我们发现，数字代理的可用性不是随机的。某些类型的小说，特别是男性写的小说和以多卷格式出版的小说，其数字代理的可用率明显高于其他类型的小说。由于导致这一结果的过程不太可能孤立于小说和19世纪30年代末，这些发现表明，在相邻的几十年里，在其他出版类型（例如，非小说）。
英文摘要：
Library digitization has made more than a hundred thousand 19th-century English-language books available to the public. Do the books which have been digitized reflect the population of published books? An affirmative answer would allow book and literary historians to use holdings of major digital libraries as proxies for the population of published works, sparing them the labor of collecting a representative sample. We address this question by taking advantage of exhaustive bibliographies of novels published for the first time in the British Isles in 1836 and 1838, identifying which of these novels have at least one digital surrogate in the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, Google Books, and the British Library. We find that digital surrogate availability is not random. Certain kinds of novels, notably novels written by men and novels published in multivolume format, have digital surrogates available at distinctly higher rates than other kinds of novels. As the processes leading to this outcome are unlikely to be isolated to the novel and the late 1830s, these findings suggest that similar patterns will likely be observed during adjacent decades and in other genres of publishing (e.g., non-fiction).
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