HathiTrust: A valuable and visionary Partnership
Mission To contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge
Partnership Arizona State University Baylor University Boston College Boston University California Digital Library Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University Emory University Florida State University Getty Research Institute Harvard University Library Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Lafayette College Library of Congress Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University` Michigan State University New York Public Library New York University North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University Northwestern University The Ohio State University The Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Purdue University Stanford University Texas A&M University Universidad Complutense de Madrid University of Arizona University of Calgary University of California Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz The University of Chicago University of Connecticut University of Florida University of Illinois University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Iowa University of Maryland University of Miami University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Missouri University of Nebraska-Lincoln The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Utah University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin- Madison Utah State University Washington University Yale University Library
Digital Repository Launched 2008 Initial focus on digitized book and journal content – 10,204,139 total volumes – 5,419,777 book titles – 268,881 serial titles – 2,888,837 public domain (~28%)
Collections and Collaboration Comprehensive collection -Preservation…with Access Shared strategies – Copyright – Collection management, development – Preservation – Discovery / Use – Bibliographic Indeterminacy – Efficient user services Public Good
Collection building strategy Begun with Google Partnership -Mass digitization at Michigan -Shelf by shelf Each CIC Library sent Google its catalog – Google analyzed each catalog – Pick list created by Google for each CIC school – Each university pulled material for Google to scan – Scanned books and journals returned to Penn State
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Penn State’s Participation Penn State started scanning with Google in 2009 Materials pulled and sent to Google every month Items out of copyright went to HathiTrust Items in copyright discoverable though not viewable in Google Book Search
Future? More partners Additional types of data Expanded research capacity Continued rights clearance expansion
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