[Web4lib] Enhanced "e-book" service?!

Wed Oct 13 20:02:25 EDT 2010

Cindy,
Yes, there are in-copyright books in HathiTrust, contributed by the
libraries that have chosen to digitize them from their collections.  And
yes, if a book is in HathiTrust, the researcher will be able to see all the
page locations where the search term appears (although we follow the rules
below for viewability)

Here’s an example:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptsearch?id=uc1.31822026149203&q1=%22sperm+w
hale%22

--Heather

On 10/13/10 10:32 AM, "Cindy Harper" <charper at colgate.edu> wrote:

> So the next question is:  does HathiTrust include the orphaned,
> still-under-copyright books like Google does? The FAQ answers that:
> ---------------------------- (www.hathitrust.org/faq
> <http://www.hathitrust.org/faq> )
> HathiTrust maintains a database of every item in the Library and a
> corresponding rights status. Brief descriptions of the most common statuses
> are given below. Detailed descriptions of all statuses, with information about
> how they are determined and stored, are available on the HathiTrust Rights
> Database <http://www.hathitrust.org/rights_database>  page.
> * Public Domain - In general, these are texts that are 1) US federal
> government documents 2) published in the US prior to 1923 or 3) published
> outside of the US before 1869. Volumes may be determined to be in the public
> domain for other reasons, however. See the link to the HathiTrust Rights
> Database page above for more information.
> * Public Domain only when viewed in the United States - Works published
> outside the US prior to 1909 are in the public domain; however, due to the
> variations in copyright law in countries outside the US, it is estimated that
> 1869 is the earliest date foreign works may still be under copyright.
> Therefore, users accessing the volume from US IP addresses will have access to
> the works published outside the US between 1869 and 1909; however, users with
> non-US IP addresses will not.
> * In-copyright - Texts that do not meet the criteria for Public Domain (e.g,.
> US post-1923 and not a government document) are treated as in-copyright.
> * Available to nobody; blocked for all users - Works that have restricted
> viewing access due to the presence of personal private information or a
> request to be taken down. This is typically a temporary status while an issue
> is resolved. 
> * Available to everyone in the world - In-copyright Works that the University
> of Michigan has been given permission by the copyright holder to display on a
> broad basis. The scope of permission granted may restrict some use, such as
> not allowing the sale of reprints. Please send inquiries about individual
> volumes to mdp-help at umich.edu.
> * Undertermined copyright status - Instances where copyright status could not
> be determined by automatic processes from bibliographic data, copyright
> research is only partially complete, or an ambiguous, unclear, or otherwise
> time-consuming situation was encountered. Items with this status are treated
> as though they are in copyright.
> ----------------------------------
> Can you tell us if in-copyright books are represented as fully in HathiTrust
> as they are in Google?  Are in-copyright books being selected from the
> university collections to scan for Google, and thus, would be a part of
> HathiTrust too?  I ask because we have a researcher wanting to find all
> occurrences of x in several in-copyright works, and Google will only list the
> first 5 or 10. Is there a way of getting them all from an alternative to
> Google such as HathiTrust?
> 
> 
> Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
> Colgate University Libraries
> charper at colgate.edu
> 315-228-7363
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Heather Christenson
> <heather.christenson at ucop.edu> wrote:
>> It's early days, but right now HathiTrust enables a user to build a
>> collection of items they choose, and then perform full text queries across
>> the items in that collection.  The result set lists the volumes where your
>> term appears, then you can click in on each one to see the page numbers
>> where the term appears.  The user can designate a collection as public or
>> private.
>> 
>> List of public collections:
>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listcs;colltype=pub;debug=
>> 
>> Here's a sample collection, "How To Be A Domestic Goddess":
>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=1679046231
>> 
>> A search for "pumpkin" within that collection:
>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?c=1679046231;a=listsrch;q1=pumpkin;sort=r
>> el_d;pn=1
>> 
>> HathiTrust is working to expand our capabilities and it's great to see a
>> discussion of desirable functionality here on web4lib
>> 
>> --Heather
>> 
>> --
>> Heather Christenson
>> Mass Digitization Project Manager
>> University of California
>> California Digital Library
>> http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/11/10 2:36 PM, "Tim Spalding" <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> > No, we don't have scans of the books. We'd love to tie into a service,
>>> > but Google doesn't allow arbitrary sets to be searched--we'd need to
>>> > tell users to import them. Hathi doesn't do it either. The and, r big
>>> > problem is, of course, that it's very partial. It's a good thing to
>>> > search a portion of your books‹what proportion varies widely but it
>>> > would be small indeed for me‹but it's also limiting.
>>> >
>>> > Tim
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Norma Jean Hewlett <hewlett at usfca.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> >> Tim, does Library Thing offer this feature?
>>>> >> Jean Hewlett
>>>> >> University of San Francisco
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> I'd like to see Hathi Trust offer this feature. I'd rather not see
>>>>> >>> libraries upload their collections to Google for this, even if Google
>>>>> >>> wanted them to.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Tim
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
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>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>> 
>> --
>> Heather Christenson
>> Mass Digitization Project Manager
>> University of California
>> California Digital Library
>> http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/
>> 
>> 
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> 

-- 
Heather Christenson
Mass Digitization Project Manager
University of California
California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/