OpenAthens, the world-leading identity and access management specialist, has announced that a not-for-profit organisation HathiTrust has joined the OpenAthens Federation.
The OpenAthens Federation enables participation from any country or sector. Hosted in multiple global regions, the federation’s 2,600 members have access to a range of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. The company collaboratively works with over 200 academic and research libraries, preserving 17.4 million digitised publications.
The company’s services offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by US copyright law and computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research.
Since its inception, HathiTrust has addressed large scale challenges that libraries collectively face and provided solutions by working closely with its members. HathiTrust manages programmes to find and open public domain materials, to expand access to US federal publications, and to develop services that support advanced computational research.
Joining the OpenAthens Federation enables more academic libraries to access HathiTrust’s services. Identity and access management issues can be barriers for some libraries. However, the OpenAthens Federation will enable more academic communities the opportunity to join HathiTrust and access its digital library stewarded by the academic library community.
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