HathiTrust Provides Emergency Temporary Access to Copyrighted Books – California Digital Library

ab1630's bookmarks 2020-04-16

Summary:

"In response to COVID-19 library service disruptions, HathiTrust has taken an important step to open up copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. UC faculty, students, and staff at all ten University of California campuses now have access to digitized books in HathiTrust that represent UC’s print holdings. This emergency, temporary service nearly doubles UC’s access, to a total of more than 13 million digital volumes, including the 6.7 million digitized public domain volumes already available via HathiTrust...."

Link:

https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2020/04/14/hathitrust-provides-emergency-temporary-access-to-copyrighted-books/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.hathi oa.humanitarian oa.copyright oa.books oa.cdl

Date tagged:

04/16/2020, 14:36

Date published:

04/16/2020, 10:36