Full Text of HathiTrust Collection to be Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The fundamental goal of EBSCO Publishing’s EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) is to make quality library content available to end users and a recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and HathiTrust does just that. The agreement allows for full text searching of HathiTrust content within EDS—exposing EDS users to the entire array of HathiTrust’s collection and greatly expanding their searches while maximizing the library’s collection. HathiTrust includes the digitized collections of more than 50 major research institutions and libraries. The HathiTrust Digital Library combines the resources of the partner institutions in order to preserve these vast digital collections. A large portion of the digital library is made up of books that have been digitized in agreement with Google Books. Additional content includes digitized content from partners including university presses and individual library’s collections...."

Link:

http://www2.ebsco.com/EN-US/NEWSCENTER/Pages/ViewArticle.aspx?QSID=492

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new ru.ps oa.search oa.books oa.hathi oa.ebsco

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:44

Date published:

09/12/2011, 17:48