10,000,000 HathiTrust Records Now Have Clear Labels in Melvyl: California Digital Library

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-05-17

Summary:

"In response to user feedback from the UC community, OCLC has relabeled more than 10,000,000 Melvyl (WorldCat Local) records making it easy to distinguish if a digitized work in HathiTrust is available in full text or for limited viewing only. Limited View Those books not in the public domain, around 7,000,000, are now labeled HathiTrust Digital Library Limited view (search only) ... With this message, users know that the full text is not accessible, but that the text is available for searching for words or phrases ... Finding full text materials ... Users determine if any of the 3,000,000 HathiTrust books in the public domain are available in full text by the presence of the 'View Now' link on the results screen.  Clicking the 'View Now' link displays the link to the full text of the item. For public domain works in HathiTrust, a new label displays on the results and item level screens: HathiTrust Digital Library Full View ..."

Link:

http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/05/15/10000000-hathitrust-records-now-have-clear-labels-in-melvyl/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.libraries oa.search oa.pd oa.books oa.librarians oa.hathi oa.u.california oa.oclc oa.announcements oa.copyright

Date tagged:

05/17/2013, 08:30

Date published:

05/17/2013, 04:30