Veyrié is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and preparing to defend his dissertation in the fall. Thierry Veyrié quickly learned the value of access to IU’s materials on HathiTrust. During the time that access to print collections is unavailable, HathiTrust digital items matching the physical collection holdings of IU Libraries are available for full-text reading. Its Emergency Temporary Access Service, or ETAS, permits special full-text access for member libraries that suffer an unexpected or involuntary temporary disruption to print collection circulation. This created a new opportunity for the HathiTrust Digital Library.
In March, IU had to close its physical libraries and stop material circulation in response to the pandemic. This preserves the author’s legal rights while allowing the researcher enough information to seek out a physical copy. All of the items have been indexed for full-text searching, but digitized books still under copyright typically can’t be viewed beyond those search results. The HathiTrust database contains millions of digitized materials, but usually only those in the public domain are fully accessible due to copyright restrictions. Through this work, IU became one of the founding members of the HathiTrust Digital Library, an online repository for academic and research libraries to archive and search the new digital resources. In 2008 as part of a Big Ten Academic Alliance partnership, the university responded to a nationwide digitization request from Google Books, sending truckloads of materials to be digitized and returned. Greg Eismin, circulation desk supervisor at the Herman B Wells Library, assisted last year in sending a few of the thousands of IU Libraries’ print books for digitization.
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