[BOAI] Hathi Trust Partnership Provides New Digital Access Options for University of Michigan Press Titles

[Iryna Kuchma]

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Date: 2009/10/10
Subject: [SOAF] Hathi Trust Partnership Provides New Digital Access Options
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Press contact: Liene Karels (lkarels at umich.edu <http://lkarels@umich.htm>)

HATHI TRUST PARTNERSHIP PROVIDES NEW DIGITAL ACCESS OPTIONS FOR UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN PRESS TITLES

Ann Arbor, MI

The University of Michigan Press (UMP) is joining with HathiTrust Digital
Library to open electronic content for free online access.  UMP plans to
have 1000 or more titles available for full viewing by year’s end.  The list
of the free-view Press titles in HathiTrust is growing daily, and can be
found at * http://www.press.umich.edu/digital/hathi/*<http://www.press.umich.edu/digital/hathi/>
.

Launched in 2008, HathiTrust
(www.hathitrust.org<http://www.hathitrust.org+%3Chttp://www.hathitrust.org%3E>)
is a digital preservation repository and research management tool for the
world’s great research libraries, focused on providing scholars in the
digital age with the largest collection of electronic research material this
side of Google Book Search and large-scale, full-text searching and
archiving tools to manage it.

“Presses have had online previews and PDFs of sample chapters, tables of
contents, and sometimes entire books on their websites for years,” said Phil
Pochoda, Press Director at UMP.  “The HathiTrust partnership is something
entirely new that takes into account the actual pursuit of broad
dissemination of scholarly information. Security restrictions are in place
to protect the integrity of the product, but with HathiTrust, a full-view of
the material is there, it’s searchable, and it’s available to anyone with
access to the Trust.  If you want to either search for or happen to come
across Michigan Press books, you can look through them onscreen anywhere,
anytime.”

In keeping with the University of Michigan’s leadership role in the use of
digitization and print-on-demand technology, UMP is seeking to push the
boundaries of the rapidly-changing publishing world to position its
resources where many different kinds of audiences can find them.  And with
multiple ways to find what they are looking for, even greater numbers of
potential readers can find and “flip through” a book to see whether it meets
their needs and interests without ever turning an actual page.  If the
reader wishes to buy the book, HathiTrust links to the Press site to allow
for fast online purchasing.

In addition to a partnership with HathiTrust, content on Amazon, and
hundreds of UMP books in Google Book Search (in which the University of
Michigan Library was one of the original participants), the Press has had a
“Look Inside” feature on its own book web pages for several years.  With
text Search ability powered by Google, the “Look Inside” feature on the UMP
website is another tool for viewing each title without damaging the
integrity of the product.  It currently contains thousands of
table-of-content and sample chapter views, with more than 100 complete
titles available for full viewing and hundreds more complete titles planned
for full view by the end of 2009.

The HathiTrust partnership adds to the wide array of UMP digital access
options and increases the range and means of expression of published ideas
and authors, taking advantage of the close coordination between the Press
and existing U-M Library digitization efforts and avenues.  Together with
the next generation of ebook readers and iPhones, Michigan’s new
print-on-demand model­the ability to turn electronic material into
high-quality bound volumes quickly and in small batches, depending on
demand­means that worldwide dissemination of material to customers and
libraries has become more efficient and accessible than ever, and new,
broader view options help ensure that such material is found.


For more information on the University of Michigan Press’s Digital
Transition, visit:
 www.press.umich.edu/digital
For more information on the U-M Library Digitization Project, visit:
www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project
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