Transcript How HathiTrust Serves the UC Community

How HathiTrust Serves the
UC Community
Users Council
May 21, 2012
Heather Christenson, California Digital Library
What is HathiTrust?
• A shared digital
repository founded in
October 2008
• A partnership of over 60
major research libraries
• Dual focus on
preservation and
access
• New research center for
computational research
using text
• Very large scale
HathiTrust
HathiTrust
current
Currentstats
Statistics
• 10,304,433 total
volumes
• 5,463,326 book titles
• 271,037 serial titles
• 3,606,551,550 pages
• 462 terabytes
• 122 miles
• 8,372 tons
• 2,996,421 volumes
(~29% of total) in the
public domain
HathiTrust is us!
Contains over 3 million
volumes
digitized from NRLF,
SRLF, UCB, UCD,
UCLA, UCSC, UCSD
HathiTrust is us!
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Board of Governors: Brian Schottlaender, UCSD,
Laine Farley, CDL
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Strategic Advisory Board: Patricia Cruse, CDL, Todd
Grappone, UCLA, Julia Kochi, UCSF
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Copyright Review Projects: CDL, UCI, UCLA, UCSF,
UCM
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Liaison to the HathiTrust Research Center: Laine
Farley, CDL
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Collection Development & Management Committee:
Ivy Anderson, CDL, Sharon Farb, UCLA
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Communications Working Group: Heather
Christenson, CDL
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User Experience Advisory Group: Felicia Poe, CDL
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User Support Working Group: Kathryn Stine, CDL
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Infrastructure, operations, and technical
development: CDL
UC Libraries’ strategic priorities
• Preservation: Store as much of UC
mass digitized content as possible in
the HathiTrust repository. Contribute
to a robust preservation environment to
ensure safety of UC content.
• Collection development and
management: Position the UC
Libraries for collection decisions by via
HathiTrust collection development and
management activities
• Access: Provide access to UC’s
mass digitized collections.
• Rights: Deposit as much public
domain content as possible into
HathiTrust. Lawfully open as much of
the content as possible to end users
What is in HathiTrust?
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Reference works
Scholarly books
Serials
Government documents
Foreign language materials
Historical materials
Poetry
Plays
Who is using HathiTrust?
• 500,000 unique visitors and 3.7M pageviews in last
month
• Visitors over the past month are from cities all over
the world
• Visitors from Austin, TX, New York, NY, College
Station, TX, and Madison, WI made up the largest
visitor counts
• Of the California visitors, the largest portion are from
Los Angeles (about 13%) with visitors from San
Francisco (about 7%) and Berkeley (about 6%) not
far behind
Where are people going on the site?
• “home” and “about” pages
• Full text search, and fulltext advanced search
• copyright help information
page
• Of >3.7M total pageviews
last month:
– >2.5M were of pages in the
“pageturner” section of the
site, where visitors engage
directly with digitized print
materials
– and >600,000 were within
the HathiTrust catalog.
HathiTrust Personas: Academic Library
Users
• Trevor, English Scholar
Creating a scholarly edition of Legenda Aurea
– Uses: pageturner, catalog / full-text search
– Wants:to download specific page ranges
• Darrell, Librarian
Curating resources for himself and his patrons
– Uses: catalog search, collections
– Wants: misdirected links to be fixed
• Katie, Undergraduate
Looking for primary sources
– Uses: catalog, limited view
– Wants: to easily find relevant sources
• Stacy, Boater
Learning how to refurbish her boat
– Uses: catalog search, collections, mobile interface
– Wants: misdirected links to be fixed
What are people doing
with HathiTrust?
• Building collections of full-text works
• Integrating HathiTrust sources into library guides
• Reading books online at HathiTrust or downloading them
whenever it's more convenient than a physical copy
• Linking to collections
• Requesting limited view items from ILL
• Downloading relevant pages
• Searching full-text and collections
• Restricting to full-view items
• Consulting useful volumes on a mobile device
• Using full-text search to find phrases
• Using quotation marks and booleans to conduct advanced
searches
Source: http://www.hathitrust.org/personas
Everyone
• View PD content
• Search PD and incopyright materials
• View public collections
• Create private or public
collections
• Download single PD
pages of Google-digitized
books
• Link to Find in A Library
(OCLC)
• Link to reprints (from UC
and UM services)
HathiTrust Partners
Everything on the left, plus:
• Download entire volumes
of PD Google-digitized
books
• Download PDF and EPUB
of PD Google-digitized
books from mobile
interface
• Potential access to incopyright for print
disabled
• Potential Section 108
uses
• Have a voice in the future
of HathiTrust
Discovery & access services: how
does HathiTrust fit in?
• UC services: UC-eLinks,
Melvyl
• HathiTrust WorldCat Local
instance:
hathitrust.worldcat.org
• Services from
www.hathitrust.org
• Mobile interface
m.hathitrust.org
• Search widgets
www.hathitrust.org/widgets
Services from www.hathitrust.org
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Catalog search
Full text search
Collection builder
Bibliographic &
rights/access data
How is HathiTrust working to make
more content available to users?
• Grant-funded
copyright review
projects
• Rights holders
opening up works
• Bringing in public
domain content from
partners
• Metadata correction
The HathiTrust User Support
Group assists users and tracking
issues including:
• Quality of content
• Collections, requests to have content
added
• Metadata errors (typos, mismatched
OCLC numbers)
• Copyright questions, permissions,
takedown requests
• ILL requests
• Requests for full pdfs
• Site functionality issues
• Reference questions!
HathiTrust site: http://www.hathitrust.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hathitrust
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/hathitrust
What do you think?
Questions?
Thank you!
Heather Christenson
California Digital Library
[email protected]