The HathiTrust April 2013 Update is now available.   Several important new developments are announced in the newsletter:

• Service to support access for users with print disabilities at partner institutions
• Updated, enhanced HathiTrust web presence and user interface

The newsletter also reports on a Board of Governors in-person meeting, activities related to ingest of locally-digitized materials from partner institutions, and next steps and plans for the HathiTrust Research Center.

In an important new development, HathiTrust now provides a way for the UC campuses to offer full view of some of the in-copyright books in HathiTrust to our print disabled patrons.   A designated representative on campus (typically someone from an office devoted to services for persons with disabilities) will be able to access works in HathiTrust that are owned by that campus, on behalf of users at the campus who have print disabilities, and can distribute full PDFs of the works to those users.   

Campuses must take action to implement this service.  

Details, including terms of use and a form to begin registration, are available at http://bit.ly/14keW0C. To register, please complete the form with appropriate signatures and send to feedback@issues.hathitrust.org. For campuses who intend to set up this service, more information about the service can be found on the HathiTrust site: http://www.hathitrust.org/accessibility.

HathiTrust expects to make improvements to the process as time goes on.  

Limited View

Those books not in the public domain, around 7,000,000, are now labeled HathiTrust Digital Library Limited view (search only). See the following example:

With this message, users know that the full text is not accessible, but that the text is available for searching for words or phrases.

Finding full text materials

Users determine if any of the 3,000,000 HathiTrust books in the public domain are available in full text by the presence of the “View Now” link on the results screen.

Clicking the “View Now” link displays the link to the full text of the item. For public domain works in HathiTrust, a new label displays on the results and item level screens: HathiTrust Digital Library Full View.

From the results screen

From the item record screen

Another easy way to find public domain works is by conducting a keyword search such as “cookery” and using the facets to limit to ebooks, and the year 1902 (or a year prior to 1923).

OCLC is now working on a process to find and relabel the records that are added each month.

Thanks for your persistence

Thanks to the pressure and persistence of many UC public services staff, faculty and students, the UC University Librarians, and in particular, Kathryn Stine, Alison Ray, Lynne Cameron, Lena Zentall and Patti Martin at CDL and Jeff Penka and Bill Carney at OCLC.

CDL’s UC3 program has just completed a flurry of hiring to fill four positions, two funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Joshua Hubbard and Bhavitavya (Bhavi) Vedula were hired to work on the DMPTool2 project, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  Josh has jumped in head first, helping with requirements for the project.    We’re looking forward to his Rails expertise going forward.   Bhavi has more than five years of development experience, much of it with Ruby/Rails and JQuery-based user interfaces.  Most recently she was part of a bioinformatics research group at Northwestern University tracking childhood developmental health. 

Shirin Faenza has joined UC3 as developer on a one-year contract, initially working on Merritt user interface improvements.  She has more than three years of web application development experience, most recently with Seedchange, a platform for crowd sourcing technology startup venture capital investing.  She has also worked as a technical translator, converting the Linux Journal into her native Italian. 

Ken Weiss is a production systems administrator, coordinating operational policies and procedures for UC3 services.  He replaces Margaret Low, who retired in 2012.  Most recently Ken worked as a technical analyst and architect as a contractor.  Before that he was technical director for enterprise architecture at Charles Schwab.   Long term UC staff may recall Ken’s earlier stint at the CDL in 1999-2000 when he redeployed OAC, then a research project at UCB, as a CDL production service. 

Please welcome Josh, Bhavi, Shirin, and Ken!

CDL recently hosted a webinar series for Users Council that’s now widely available to UC staff.  (The CDL’s Users Council is a group responsible for communicating information between the CDL and the campuses concerning use of CDL tools, services and collections.  Users Council consists of a liaison from each UC campus, including LBNL, LLNL and the Regional Library Facilities.  A CDL representative is an ex officio member. ) 

The topics covered were chosen through a member survey, with survey expertise provided by CDL’s Senior Assessment Analyst Jane Lee. 

This year there were six lively sessions covering the following ground:

• Melvyl: A Snapshot of Issues, Patricia Martin, Director, Discovery & Delivery and Lena Zentall, Project Manager, Discovery & Delivery
• Services Today & Tomorrow, Laine Farley, Executive Director, CDL
• What’s Happening in Collections: 15 Triumphs in 30 Minutes, Wendy Parfrey, Shared Content Coordinator
• User Experience Design and CDL, Rachael Hu, User Experience Design Manager
• eScholarship: Supporting OA Scholarly Communication at UC, Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access& Publishing; Justin Gonder, eScholarship Product Manager; and Katie Fortney, Copyright Policy & Education Officer
• HathiTrust and Mass Digitization, Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager

Each of the one-hour recordings, along with PowerPoint slides, is available for your viewing at:   http://www.cdlib.org/groups/users_council/

(The presentations are password protected because some of the information is not for public consumption.)

Please note that “My Archive Users “will need to have migrated their searches and saved materials manually by visiting the current platform to export and save their settings. 

The Shared cataloging Program (SCP) will change the PIDs on July 1, 2013.

UC Researchers are publishing open access articles on a fascinating array of topics—from minimum wage to green marketing to nursing practice.  This quarter’s top ten most popular eScholarship articles include the following:

UC Berkeley: “Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties” by Dube, Andrajit;Lester, T. William;Reich, Michael, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment: Working Paper Series
Requests: 4,535

UC Davis: “Ultracapacitor Technologies and Application in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles” by Burke, Andy, Institute of Transportation Studies (UCD): Recent Work
Requests: 1,523

UC Irvine: “A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics: Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic Development, and the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis” by Korotayev, Andrey V;Tsirel, Sergey V., Social Dynamics and Complexity: Structure and Dynamics
Requests: 2,714

UC Los Angeles: “An Introduction To Green Marketing” by Polonsky, Michael Jay, UCLA Library: Electronic Green Journal
Requests: 12,481

UC Merced: “Transmodernidad: un nuevo paradigma” by Rodríguez Magda, Rosa María, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts: TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
Requests: 1,172

UC Riverside: “Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change” by Lyubomirsky, S;Sheldon, K M;Schkade, D, : UC Riverside Previously Published Papers
Requests: 1,724

UC Santa Barbara: “Twain’s Rhetoric of Irony in ‘the War-Prayer’” by Lock, Helen, American Cultures and Global Contexts Center: Journal of Transnational American Studies
Requests: 2,392

UC Santa Cruz: “The World Distribution of Household Wealth” by DAVIES, JAMES B;Shorrocks, Anthony;Sandstrom, Susanna;WOLFF, EDWARD N, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies: Mapping Global Inequalities
Requests: 2,929

UC San Diego: “Nursing Practice, Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceived Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice at an Academic Medical Center” by Brown, Caroline E.;Wickline, Mary;Ecoff, Laurie;Glaser, Dale, UC San Diego Libraries: Libraries’ Research Works
Requests: 2,473

UC San Francisco: “Internalized stigma of mental illness: psychometric properties of a new measure” by Boyd formerly Ritsher, Jennifer E, : UC San Francisco Previously Published Papers
Requests: 1,622

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: “VISCOSITY OF AQUEOUS SODIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTIONS FROM 0 – 150oC” by Ozbek, H., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Requests: 1,906

Curious about your campus activity in this area?  Check it out at the following links:

UCB:      http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucb_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCD:      http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucd_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCI:       http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/uci_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCLA:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucla_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCM:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucm_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCR:      http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucr_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSD:   http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsd_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSF:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsf_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSB:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsb_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

UCSC:    http://www.escholarship.org/stats/campus/ucsc_quarterly_report_q1_2013.html

Please let us know if you have any suggestions for future revisions.  We would also be interested in hearing how your campus uses these reports and if you receive any feedback about them from your constituencies.  Please send your ideas to help@escholarship.org

AIRITI, a Chinese e-content provider of Chinese academic e-journals, is no longer distributing the Tier 2 resource NPM (National Palace Museum), an image archive of treasures at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. The collection includes paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronze, Buddhist antiques, etc.  The interface available in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, English and Japanese.

Library users, however, now have access to a freely available version at the persistent identifier (PID) above.

By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization

HathiTrust has released an updated, fresh design and new features for its website. The latest design incorporates feedback submitted by HathiTrust users and input from HathiTrust’s User Experience and Communications working groups. We encourage you to test out the new interface and submit your suggestions and ideas via the feedback link at the bottom of the page.

Some of the highlights of the new interface include:

• Look and feel – HathiTrust has been given a fresh, user-friendly design that unifies all parts of the website.
• Accessibility – HathiTrust continues its tradition of style with function, paying particular attention to accessibility in major and minor functional components of the interface.
• An engaging homepage – A consolidated search area and prominent links to user collections, hand-picked books, and our mobile interface, invite users to explore the HathiTrust collection. Links to social media, the HathiTrust Research Center, and HathiTrust projects provide updates on activities and invite engagement.
• Login benefits – Users can now log in from anywhere on the site, and the login area of the homepage highlights the benefits of logging in to users from partner institutions.
• Improvements to the reading interface – Our new online reading interface increases the amount of space available for reading books, while still keeping reading controls and bibliographic information readily accessible.
• Persistent tabbed search box – Options for searching the bibliographic catalog and full-text of works have been combined into a single tabbed search, with help information to guide users in deciding which search to use. A persistent search header allows searches to be performed from any page on the website.

Special thanks to the University of Michigan programmers, designers, project managers, and systems staff who made the new design happen.

HT Research Center
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced new data mining and analytics tools, providing a much-needed entry point to large-scale analysis of HathiTrust’s contents. http://ovpitnews.iu.edu/news/page/normal/24146.html

Indiana University and the University of Illinois are the founding partners of the HTRC. The new infrastructure release follows an aggressive development path set forth by the HTRC Executive Management Team at the 2012 HTRC UnCamp, a gathering of HTRC developers, researchers and librarians. Users can now apply sophisticated computational research methodology across the large-scale collection, leveraging metadata crafted over time by libraries.

Next Steps
Each campus will be asked to nominate names for membership on each group with a deadline of May 3.  LAUC will be asked to nominate names for membership on the Strategic Action Groups with the same deadline.  Nominees will be selected based on their relevant expertise and availability to work on the groups, with the aim of balancing the necessary expertise across the committee (as defined in the charge) to accomplish each group’s work. Recommendations will be forwarded to SOPAG who will send a proposed roster of names to CoUL for final decisions. 

The goal is to have the new advisory structure in place by July 1, 2013.