Hathi Trust Update on June 2010 Activities

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The release of Shibboleth was made in conjunction with improvements to PageTurner that enabled delivery of high-resolution PDF files with embedded OCR for entire volumes. While only individuals at member institutions have access to this service across the repository, all public domain volumes that were not digitized by Google are available for full-PDF download to members and non-members alike. Right now these include nearly 100,000 Internet Archive-digitized volumes that have been contributed by the University of California, and thousands of volumes digitized locally by the University of Michigan. The partners are poised to significantly increase the amount of non-Google-digitized content preserved in HathiTrust in the near future, making many more public domain volumes freely available for download and distribution...."

Link:

http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_june2010

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.pd oa.books oa.digitization oa.copyright

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 17:31

Date published:

07/12/2010, 15:18