ZackTOC - books with fulltext

Introduction

ZackTOC is a web service for finding table of contents of books. The contents of books are available in parts or full in different ways:

libraries scanned the copyright-free Table of Contents (TOC).
book publishers provide a short description
scientific papers published in fulltext in repositories

Example

http://opus.tu-bs.de/zack/cgi/ZackTOC?isbn=0-596-00516-4

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<fulltext>
<meta>
  <copyright>Copyright (c) 2010 ZACK Gateway - http://opus.tu-bs.de/zack/fulltext.html</copyright>
  <query>
    <isbn>0-596-00516-4</isbn>
  </query>
  <region>de</region>
  <error></error>
</meta>
<list>
  <item url="http://www.gbv.de/du/services/toc/bs/366238698"
        content-type="application/pdf" 
        document-type="" 
        database="" 
        producer="" />
  <item url="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0715/2003278281-d.html"
        content-type="text/html"
        document-type=""
        database=""
        producer="" />
</list>
</fulltext>

ZackTOC API

isbn:           isbn to search for
verbose:        debug level, valid values are: 0, 1, 2
region:         regional area to search, valid values are: de, ch, eu, us, world

Terms of Use

ZackTOC is available for non-commercial use only
500 hits/day limit - please avoid daytime between 8:00 - 16:00 UTC
no parallel requests are allowed
this service is provided `AS IS'', use it at your own risk!

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