HathiTrust, a group of some of the largest research libraries in the United States collaborating to create a repository of their vast digital collections, and OCLC will work together to increase visibility of and access to items in the HathiTrust’s shared digital repository.
Launched jointly by the 12-university consortium known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the 11 university libraries of the University of California system, HathiTrust leverages the time-honored commitment to preservation and access to information that university libraries have valued for centuries. The group’s digital collections, including millions of books, will be archived and preserved in a single repository hosted by HathiTrust. Materials in the public domain and those where rightsholders have given permission will be available for reading online.
See Also: Learn More About the HathiTrust
HathiTrust Stats
Currently Digitized
+ 2,567,106 volumes
+ 898,487,100 pages
+ 95 terabytes
+ 30 miles
+ 2,086 tons
379,014 volumes (~15% of total) in the public domain
Source: OCLC / HathiTrust
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