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HathiTrust: the Collection and its Uses

May 6, 2013

John Wilkin

Sigrid Cordell

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Introduction

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Partnership Arizona State UniversityBaylor University

Boston CollegeBoston UniversityBrandeis UniversityBrown UniversityCalifornia Digital LibraryCarnegie Mellon

UniversityColumbia UniversityCornell University

Dartmouth CollegeDuke UniversityEmory UniversityFlorida State UniversityGetty Research InstituteHarvard University LibraryIndiana UniversityIowa State UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityKansas State UniversityLafayette CollegeLibrary of CongressMassachusetts Institute of 

TechnologyMcGill University`Michigan State UniversityNew York Public LibraryNew York UniversityNorth Carolina Central

University 

North Carolina StateUniversity

Northwestern UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State

UniversityPrinceton UniversityPurdue UniversityStanford UniversitySyracuse UniversityTexas A&M University

Tufts UniversityUniversidad Complutensede Madrid

University of ArizonaUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of California

BerkeleyDavisIrvineLos AngelesMercedRiversideSan DiegoSan FranciscoSanta BarbaraSanta Cruz

The University of ChicagoUniversity of ConnecticutUniversity of Delaware

University of FloridaUniversity of Houston

University of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois atChicagoThe University of IowaUniversity of KansasUniversity of MarylandUniversity of MiamiUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Minnesota

University of MissouriUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnThe University of North

Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of UtahUniversity of VermontUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin-

MadisonUtah State UniversityVanderbilt UniversityVirginia TechWake Forest UniversityWashington University

Yale University Library

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Digital Repository

§  Launched 2008

§  Initial focus on digitized book and journal

content

§  10.6 million total volumes§  5.6 million book titles

§  277,000 serial titles

§ 3.3 million public domain (~31%)

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Mission

To contribute to the common good bycollecting, organizing, preserving,

communicating, and sharing the record of 

human knowledge

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Goals

§  Reliable and comprehensive archive of materials converted from print…co-owned

§  Improve access…to meet the needs of theco-owning institutions

§  Ensure the long-term preservation of content

§  Coordinate shared storage strategies§  “public good”…sustaining the historical

record§  Simultaneously…centralized…open

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CopyrightDistribu/on

In-copyrightor

undetermined

69%

PublicDomain

(worldwide)

16%

U.S.Federal

Government

Documents

(worldwide)

4%

Public

Domain

(US)

11%

OpenAccess

.1%

Crea/veCommons

.04%

"Public

Domain”

31%

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LanguageDistribu/on(1)

English

48%

German

9%

French

7%

Spanish

5%

Chinese

4%

Russian4%

Japanese

3%

Italian

3%

Arabic

2%La/n

1%

RemainingLanguages

14%

Thetop10languagesmakeup~86%ofallcontent

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Services

§  Long-term preservation§  Bit-level and migration

§  Bibliographic search

§  Full-text search§  Reading and download capabilities

§  Print on demand

§  Collections

§  Datasets, Research Center 

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Support Beyond Books and Journals

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Impact

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Rights Determination

§  CRMS US (since 2008)§  Published in US, 1923-1963

§  239,296 determinations

§  129,026 opened (~53%)

§  CRMS-World (since 2012)§  Published non-US (UK, Canada, Australia, Spain)

§  41,162 determinations

§  22,288 opened (~54%)

§ Permissions§  Open access - 6,566

§   Additional Creative Commons – 5,460

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Collection Management, Development

§  Overlap§  More than 50% median overlap with ARL

institutions; higher for small liberal arts colleges

§  Pricing model based on Print holdings

§  Requires print holdings database

§   Also support expansion of legal uses, efforts in

de-duplication

§  Facilitate individual and collaborative collectiondevelopment and management operations

§  Print monographs archiving

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Discovery and Use

§  Search, collections, online access§   APIs and data feeds

§  Data API

§  Bibliographic API

§  “Hathifiles” inventory files

§  OAI

§  Computational Research

§ Distribution of datasets

§  Protocol-based access

§  Research Center 

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How to find out more

§  About:h[p:www.hathitrust.orgabout§  Twi[er:h[p:twi[er.comhathitrust

§  Facebook:h[p:www.facebook.comhathitrust

§  Monthlynewsle[er:

§  h[p:www.hathitrust.orgupdates

§  RSSh[p:www.hathitrust.orgupdates_rss

§  Contactus:feedback@issues.hathitrust.org

§  Blogs:h[p:www.hathitrust.orgblogs§  Large-scaleSearch

§  Perspec/vesfromHathiTrust

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Teaching with HathiTrust

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§  For students, HathiTrust is a rich source of primary materials that cross disciplines,

topics, and geography.

§  For instructors, HathiTrust offers a

contained, but expansive, environment in

which students can search for sources

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HathiTrust contains materials in all

disciplines… 

and includes a wide range of primary source

materials, such as:

§  Diaries§  Correspondence

§  Reports

§  Newspapers§  Memoirs

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HathiTrust covers a wide range of formats, such as

§  Books§  Encyclopedias

§   Archival materials

§ Directories

§  Periodicals

§  Maps

§  Musical scores

§  Statistics

§  Visual Materials

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Research as Play 

HathiTrust can be used pedagogically toencourage scholarly exploration.

§  Researchers can search for items bycategory, date, geography, or subject.

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Thank You.

John Wilkin ( jpwilkin@umich.edu 

Sigrid Cordell (scordell@umich.edu)