HathiTrust Copyright Review Qiang Jin Lura Joseph Content Access Management (CAM) Library Faculty Meeting September 13, 2017

HathiTrust Copyright Review Background How the Copyright Review System works Results Interesting finds

Background:

HathiTrust Began in 2008 as a collaboration of the universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (now the Big Ten Academic Alliance) and the University of California system To establish a repository to archive and share their digitized collections. Quickly expanded to include additional partners. Aim: To build a comprehensive archive of published literature from around the world and to develop shared strategies for managing and developing their digital and print holdings in a collaborative way For its members, and as a public good to users around the world. Currently: Over 15 million items in HathiTrust - February 22, 2017. https://www.hathitrust.org/partnership; https://www.hathitrust.org/news_publications

Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) The Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) is to improve access to limited view volumes where legally possible. Since 2008, over 50 reviewers at 22 libraries have reviewed 600,000 items, determining that more than 320,000 are no longer protected by copyright and have entered the public domain. This is approximately 5.7% of the current 5.6 million volumes that are fully viewable in HathiTrust. https://www.hathitrust.org/copyright-review; Supervisor orientation 17Jan2017 pdf  

Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) Accomplishments, 2008-2016: https://www.hathitrust.org/copyright-review   Volumes determined to be Public Domain U.S. publications (1923-1963) 339,880 54% United Kingdom, Canada, Australia (1870’s-1940’s) 289,844 52% Total 629,724 53%

Copyright Review of US Publications dated 1923-1963 Works published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 are the basis of the current project, which we began reviewing in 2017. Scope : Monographs published in the United States in the years 1923-63. Candidate pool : 81,300 Staffing : 26 reviewers Reviewer commitments : Through December 2017  

HathiTrust Copyright Review, participating institutions for 2017 Amherst College Boston College Cornell University DePaul University Library Johns Hopkins University Harvard University McGill University Michigan State University Library New York University Penn State University Libraries Princeton University Stanford University The Ohio State University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  University of Arizona Libraries University of Chicago University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Michigan University of Minnesota https://www.hathitrust.org/copyright-review

How the Copyright Review System works:

Pages through title page Verso of title page Acknowledgments What we don’t examine: Preface Forward Introduction Jacket The rest of the book What we examine: Cover Pages through title page Verso of title page Acknowledgments Table of contents Two non-expert reviewers for each book Plus expert reviewer

Codes We Use Open Codes (Public Domain) pdus/ren = public domain U.S., renewal searched (& not found) pdus/cdpp = public domain U.S., copyright date is pre-1923 pdus/ncn = public domain U.S., no copyright notice Closed Codes ic/ren = in copyright, renewal searched (& found) und/nfi = undetermined, needs further investigation und/ren = undetermined, renewal searched (& not found for overall work, but there are Inserts)

Searchable Wiki

Check for metadata mismatch, pub date, copyright notice; Toggle for other resources:

Other resources for checking, including Stanford Database of renewals:

Checked Stanford Database; no match found

Continue following the flow chart, then select determination of Rights/Reason.

Example of IC (In copyright)

Results/Statistics:

Historical Reviews

Statistics

Weekly Progress Report CRMS-US Total by Institution This week Last week Amherst 32 35 Arizona 37 44 Boston 80 82 Chicago 8 Cornell 3 27 DePaul 52 JHU McGill 103 91 Michigan 19 Minnesota 375 222 New York 21 9 Ohio State 10 Penn State 153 323 Princeton 195 170 Stanford 50 97 UIUC 107 62 UMass 240 UNC Chapel Hill 211 207 Total 1715 1501

Interesting Finds:

Thank you! Any questions?