The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.
Johns Hopkins' initial role as part of HathiTrust will center on the development of infrastructure, such as storage systems, and services that will allow for seamless integration with the university's library catalogue.
Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership that currently comprises more than two dozen partners. Over the last two years, the partners have contributed more than 7 million volumes to the digital library, digitised from their library collections through various means, including Google and Internet Archive digitisation and in-house initiatives. More than 1.6 million of the contributed volumes are in the public domain and freely available on the Web.
HathiTrust serves a dual role. As a trusted repository, it guarantees the long-term preservation of the materials it holds, providing the expert curation and consistent access long associated with research libraries. As a service for partners, HathiTrust offers persistent access to the digital collections. This includes viewing, downloading and searching access to public domain volumes, and searching access to in-copyright volumes. Also, specialised features are available to facilitate access by people with print disabilities and to allow users to gather subsets of the digital library into 'collections' that can be searched and browsed.
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