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HathiTrust Digital Library: Enrich Your Research and Scholarship

HathiTrust Digital Library: Enrich Your Research and Scholarship. Doreen Bradley Chris Powell University Library May 2011. What is HathiTrust , anyway?. It’s digital library open to the world http://hathitrust.org It’s a partnership community

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HathiTrust Digital Library: Enrich Your Research and Scholarship

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  1. HathiTrust Digital Library: Enrich Your Research and Scholarship Doreen Bradley Chris Powell University Library May 2011

  2. What is HathiTrust, anyway? • It’s digital library open to the world http://hathitrust.org • It’s a partnership community Over fifty institutions and consortia within the United States, including the CIC and the Library of Congress, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid • The HathiTrust is us Michigan contributes material and manpower

  3. Why bother? • Brings together materials digitized by: • Google • Internet Archive • Partner institutions • other commercial digitization schemes • HathiTrust is actively working on rights determination • Rights holders can open their works with Creative Commons licenses • Provides services important to the academic missions of the partners

  4. HathiTrust is always changing New partners – more coming New material • Over 200,000 volumes last month • Pilot projects for images and audio files New features • Page turner new this week • Identifying works in the public domain • Working on a mobile version

  5. What can you do? Find specific items – in the catalog • Find in a library • Full PDF download • Buying a copy Full text searching • Journal article title/author search • Searching within an item Collections • Public • Private

  6. Other opportunities • HathiTrust datasets of public domain works available for research purposes – http://www.hathitrust.org/datasets • Tool for downloading available volumes – http://www.lib.umich.edu/two-over-threehundred/ • Why would you want to use these? Because you have analysis tools you’d like to use on your desktop machine.

  7. Keeping up with HathiTrust • Monthly reports – updates on partners, material, and features • Statistics and visualizations – volumes by call number, by language, by date of publication • Volumes by partner – using the catalog

  8. Questions?

  9. Thank you and please take a few moments to complete the workshop evaluation at: http://teachtech.lib.umich.edu Under My Sessions ES ’11 Contact Info: Chris Powell sooty@umich.edu Doreen Bradley dbradley@umich.edu

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