<font size="3" face="Calibri">[Forwarding from </font>SPARC Open Access Forum<font size="3" face="Calibri">]</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Suber</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peters@earlham.edu">peters@earlham.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: 2009/10/10<br>Subject: [SOAF] Hathi Trust Partnership Provides New Digital Access Options for University of Michigan Press Titles<br>To: SPARC Open Access Forum <<a href="mailto:SPARC-OAForum@arl.org">SPARC-OAForum@arl.org</a>><br>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">[Forwarding from the University of Michigan
Press. --Peter Suber.]<br><br>
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Press contact: Liene Karels
(<a href="http://lkarels@umich.htm" target="_blank">lkarels@umich.edu</a>)<br><br>
HATHI TRUST PARTNERSHIP PROVIDES NEW DIGITAL ACCESS OPTIONS FOR
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS TITLES<br>
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Ann Arbor, MI <br>
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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
</font><a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/digital/hathi/" target="_blank">
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http://www.press.umich.edu/digital/hathi/</u></b></font></a>
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</font><font size="3" face="Calibri">Launched in 2008, HathiTrust
(<a href="http://www.hathitrust.org" target="_blank">www.hathitrust.org</a></font><a href="http://www.hathitrust.org+%3Chttp://www.hathitrust.org%3E" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times"></font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">) 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. <br>
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“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.” <br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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For more information on the University of Michigan Press’s Digital
Transition, visit: <br>
<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/digital" target="_blank">
www.press.umich.edu/digital</a></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times"><br>
</font><font size="3" face="Calibri">For more information on the U-M
Library Digitization Project, visit:
<a href="http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project" target="_blank">
www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project</a></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times"> </font><font size="3" face="Calibri"><br>
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