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HathiTrust Update
The University Libraries have joined HathiTrust as of July 2012. HathiTrust has two levels of partnership: sustaining and content-contributing. As sustaining partners, VT has full viewing and downloading abilities for public domain materials and materials for which HathiTrust has received permissions for downloading. All HathiTrust holdings are indexed and discoverable through Summon.
IP recognition has been turned on; you can also test Shibboleth authentication. Click the Login link from the top right or within the pink box, choose Virginia Tech in the Partner Institution dropdown window, and enter your VT PID and password. To see an example of full-text downloading, search the HathiTrust catalog for the title “Historic Dress in America, 1607-1800” by Elisabeth McClellan, published in 1904.
We plan to send updates about HathiTrust internally as we discover more about it’s features and content. Notification will go out to the university community after the start of the semester. In the meantime, please send any questions or comments to me or post them to the blog.