... By mid-November, the HathiTrust Digital Library will have a full-featured, full-text search service for 4.3-5 million items. The searches will retrieve bibliographic citations and page references, including those for in-copyright books. Content will extend beyond the digitized copies of books returned to early library partners by Google. HathiTrust is pushing to acquire other digitized special collections from its members, as well as making arrangements for opening access to university press books. ...
According to John Wilkin, associate university librarian at the University of Michigan and executive director of the HathiTrust, "The partnership is still expanding. We're on the verge of announcing maybe three new partners. ..."
The new launch will open indexing to nearly 1.5 billion pages from well more than 4.3 million volumes with full-text searching by keyword or phrase. ...
You can download the full text of public domain works from HathiTrust, but only page by page. That's what Google sent back to its library partners. If you want to download a whole book in one fell swoop, it's back to Google Book Search. ... Future full-text searching options will include faceted browsing, advanced search, "more like this" options, and tools for computational analysis. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/26/2009 06:51:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
