The University of Arkansas Libraries have joined HathiTrust, a non-profit global collaborative of more than 200 research and academic libraries with a mission of ensuring that the cultural record is preserved and accessible in the future. The U of A campus will benefit from an increase in digital resources as well as enhanced accessibility. Specialized features facilitate the access by persons with print disabilities and allow users to gather subsets of the digital library into collections that can be searched and browsed.
HathiTrust holds the largest set of digitized books managed by the academic, research, and library community. Over the last 12 years, members have contributed more than 17.4 million volumes to the digital library. U of A users will be able to view and download full-text PDF files of all public domain and Creative Commons-licensed volumes in HathiTrust, of which there are currently more than 6.9 million U.S. users. For all volumes, including copyrighted works, the full text is searchable within the digital library and available for advanced research and data mining services via the HathiTrust Research Center.
Lora Lennertz, data librarian for the U of A Libraries, has authored the research guide Getting Started with HathiTrust to help users familiarize themselves with this resource. Lennertz will offer free, virtual training sessions next month for those interested in learning how to use HathiTrust. The first session, Introduction to HathiTrust, will provide information on the U of A's membership in HathiTrust as well as instruct on the basics of using HathiTrust for locating items and creating collections. The session Basic Text Mining with HathiTrust will provide a hands-on demonstration of the out-of-the box research analytics that are available for text mining.
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