HathiTrust
Encyclopedia
HathiTrust is a very large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive
digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
HathiTrust was founded in October 2008 by the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
and the University of California
. The partnership includes over 50 research libraries across the United States and Europe, and is based on a shared governance structure. Costs are shared by the participating libraries and library consortia. The repository is administered by Indiana University
and the University of Michigan
. The Executive Director of HathiTrust is John Price Wilkin, who has led large-scale digitization initiatives at the University of Michigan since the mid 1990s.
As of December 2010, HathiTrust comprises over 7.5 million volumes, over 1.8 million of which are public domain. HathiTrust provides a number of discovery and access services, notably, full-text search across the entire repository.
As of October 2011, the Authors Guild is pursuing legal action against Hathitrust (Authors Guild v. HathiTrust) citing massive copyright violation.
Hathi is the Hindi
word for elephant
, an animal famed for its long-term memory.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
HathiTrust was founded in October 2008 by the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference plus former conference member, the University of Chicago....
and the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
. The partnership includes over 50 research libraries across the United States and Europe, and is based on a shared governance structure. Costs are shared by the participating libraries and library consortia. The repository is administered by Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
and the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. The Executive Director of HathiTrust is John Price Wilkin, who has led large-scale digitization initiatives at the University of Michigan since the mid 1990s.
As of December 2010, HathiTrust comprises over 7.5 million volumes, over 1.8 million of which are public domain. HathiTrust provides a number of discovery and access services, notably, full-text search across the entire repository.
As of October 2011, the Authors Guild is pursuing legal action against Hathitrust (Authors Guild v. HathiTrust) citing massive copyright violation.
Hathi is the Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
word for elephant
Elephant
Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...
, an animal famed for its long-term memory.
External links
- Authors Guild statement regarding their lawsuit against Hathitrust
- HathiTrust adds new members, goes global (official press release from 13 November 2010)
- Major Library Partners Launch HathiTrust Shared Digital Repository (official press release from 13 October 2008)
- HathiTrust at Indiana University
- An Elephant Backs Up Google’s Library
- HathiTrust: A Research Library at Web Scale