Cornell University Library, one of the leading academic research libraries in the US, has become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative.
Cornell's library will deposit 300,000 digital books into HathiTrust by March 2011. In return, HathiTrust will ensure the long-term preservation of the materials. It will also make public-domain materials available and offer enhanced services, such as access for people with print disabilities.
HathiTrust seeks to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. More than two dozen institutions participate in the repository, including Columbia University (Cornell's 2CUL partner), the entire University of California system and the New York Public Library. Founded in 2008, HathiTrust guarantees the long-term preservation of materials it holds and offers consistent access to the digital collections.
More than 1.5 million of HathiTrust's volumes are in the public domain and freely available on the Web. The growing repository contains nearly 7 million volumes of both copyright and public-domain materials, many of which were digitised through the Google and Internet Archive programmes.
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