HathiTrust's Growth Strategy: Full-Text Search Coming to WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service

"Today, in separate announcements, OCLC and EBSCO both unveiled plans to integrate full-text HathiTrust search capability into WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), respectively. Once implemented, the deals will make the full texts of all of the 9.5 million-plus works in the digital repository searchable by some of the most widely used discovery tools—and greatly expand the accessibility of the massive HathiTrust corpus. No firm dates have been announced for when the full-text search functionality will become available for either. But, in the near term, the agreements are helping to solidify HathiTrust's place as the closest thing the United States has to a national digital library...."