Category: Mass Digitization
UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter for June 2024 (Q2) is Posted
Summer is here in full swing, and we managed to publish our Q2 newsletter just under deadline. It also happened to be the same day as oral arguments in Internet Archive’s appeal of the lawsuit brought against it by publishers. […]
March Newsletter for UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Now Posted
The March (Q1) newsletter for the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center is now posted. Topics include new resources for library colleagues who are participating in the HathiTrust Shared Print Program; Dear Zephir’s detailed answer to why a user sometimes can’t […]
UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for December 2023 Now Posted
The final UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter of 2023 is now posted: The December newsletter features articles on UC’s 90,000 theses and dissertations in HathiTrust, Dear Zephir’s insights into how records are clustered in HathiTrust search, and an introduction to HathiTrust’s […]
The Latest Newsletter from the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center is Now Posted
The UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for Q3 2023 has just been posted! Learn about the New York Public Library’s strategy to license twentieth-century, in-copyright, out-of-print books to provide digital access to their patrons. Discover the answers to a few mysteries […]
UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for May 2023 – Now Posted!
The UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for Q2 2023 is now posted. It highlights three new articles in the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center, including: a celebration of UC San Diego’s Mass Contributions to HathiTrust, the new Dear Zephir advice column for […]
February 2023 UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Now Posted!
The latest newsletter for the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center is now posted. It highlights news and information about UC’s participation in and contributions to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The newsletter is intended for UC library staff and others working […]
Introducing the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter
The inaugural issue of the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter was published October 28. This new quarterly publication will provide news and information about UC’s participation in and contributions to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The newsletter will keep UC […]
Thousands of older dissertations from UCSF newly available in eScholarship
Over three thousand dissertations and theses digitized from UCSF’s archives, originally submitted to the university between 1965 and 2006, were added to eScholarship this year. These titles cover topics as disparate as the pregnancy experiences of black women, AIDS and identity in the gay […]
Public Domain Expansion 2022: Highlights of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Writers in HathiTrust’s Newly Opened Volumes
On January 1, 2022 the public domain expanded in the United States to include works published in 1926. This is only the fourth expansion of the US public domain since 1998, when the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act increased […]
UC Davis Contacts Alumni Authors in Successful Project to Open Theses and Dissertations for Worldwide Access
This article is based on the transcript from the HathiTrust Slack Pop-up held December 16, 2021 and the Dissertation Licensing in HathiTrust: Webinar & Virtual Chat held January 19, 2022. Both featured Sara Gunasekara from UC Davis, and Kristina Hall […]