The Hindi word for ‘elephant’ ITC Friday, January 22, 2010

In the Beginning—or maybe it was in 2000 Interest in making historical documents widely available on the open Internet UWDCC start up in 2000 Growth to about 2M local images today  08/09 7M visitors  09/10 (6 months) 7M visitors University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 2

Discovery and Access Discussions began in late 2005 Signed agreement in October 2006 Not less than 500K over 6 years About 10K p/month No $$ transferred to or from Google About 11M books in GB now About 15% is PD Very successful collaboration University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 3

2006 Agreement Free search in GB Find in library/bookstore feature Snippet view for in-copyright material Full text access to PD material and pre out of copyright material University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 4

Google Settlement Agreement Author’s Guild/Association of American Publishers/DOJ – Copyright infringement—U.S. and international – Monopoly—orphan works – Antitrust/Pricing concerns--products – What we can and can’t do with the udc Judge NY Feb, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 5

2009 Amendment Free search in GB Find in library/bookstore feature Snippet is eliminated-replaced by an expanded 30% preview of in-copyright material Ability for us to license access to the entire digitized corpus for the entire UWS University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 6

2009 Amendment continued Free subscription to the entire corpus for each public library/academic library in the U.S. A consumer model that will enable a person to purchase access to the in- copyright out of print material (orphans) Full text access to PD and the pre-1923 out of copyright material University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 7

Remember the elephant? Insurance policy Michigan/IU lead/host/curate CIC/UC/CDL/UVA/CUL... Collaborative—annual fees Governance—sustainability University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 8

HathiTrust continued Long-term preservation and curation 5M books—about 15% PD These are our library files > just Google content UC is adding local content now Collaborative collection management— digital and print University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 9

Preservation *AND* Scholarly Tools Expand accessibility to restricted files to users with print disabilities Non-consumptive research – Text analysis using a very large corpus – MIT work Collaborative collection management University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries 10