Preparation
This page is a companion to the Workshop called Avenues to Equitable Access held on 9/23/2014. This page covers some of the basic advantages of HathiTrust, as well as a synopsis HathiTrust Enhanced Access, the offering that provides e-access to full-text of books held in print by the Cornell Library for those in the Cornell community who have certified their print disability.
Program
Guidance for Equitable Access Starts with the Cornell University Library Disability page.
Service guide noted in the section devoted to HathiTrust Enhanced Access.
HathiTrust is a
- consortium - over 90 partner institutions
- digital library - ~ 11.5 million volumes (and growing all the time)
- preservation repository - persistent links for resources in lower left navigation bar for both book and page level persistent access.
Exploring the digital library
- The web site has documentation for accessibility features.
- Basic search (both catalog and full-text), advanced catalog search, advanced full-text search
- Help file is very helpful! Refer to this if you get lost, or ask a librarian for help.
- Every book is full-text searchable, but not all are viewable on screen.
- In large part due to copyright
- Full view (~4M) and limited view (~7M)
- Reading online: image and OCR view
- Persistent links for book and for page.
- Logging in with your Cornell NetID and password
- Create collections of books for your own use (you can limit search to within a collection)
- Download PDF any item in the public domain.
Enhanced Access - See the service guide for details. A broad outline is below.
- Register with Student Disabilities Services. (Faculty and Staff should register with MLA.) Do not send your registration by email.
- Search HathiTrust for the books you want to see...
- If you log in, you can download any book in full view immediately.
- For books in limited view, copy the persistent links to them into a list.
- Send the list to CUL-HTProxy-L@cornell.edu expect a reasonable turnaround based on the length of your list.
- Not all books are eligible. Staff will have to check to see if Cornell library has each in print.
- Receive full-text of the eligible books on your list, by either
- Cornell dropbox - you will be notified by email when pickup is ready
- Thumbdrive - if you supply one to the proxy who answers you.
- Note that the provision of this material is affected by constraints mentioned in the guide. Please review these carefully and abide by them.
