0 Open Content Alliance Initiative: Building a Digital Archive Global Content for Universal Access Warren Holder University of Toronto

1 University of Toronto Background Largest university in Canada –67,692 students (59,389 full-time) –11,365 faculty and staff Operating budget –$1.107 billion Research grant and contract support –$517 million Academic programs –75 PhD programs –14 professional faculties

2 University of Toronto Background 3 Campuses –St. George campus: 49,960 students –U of T at Mississauga: 8,925 students –U of T at Scarborough: 8,807 students

3 U of T Library Background Largest Library in Canada Central Libraries + 35 college, faculty & department libraries Total collection: Print 1 Electronic (2003/04 data)(Current data) Books16,907,750298,000 2 Serials 3 34,05733, Includes microforms and other materials 2 Estimated 3 Titles 4 Includes public (unlicensed) titles

4 E-Books at the U of T Libraries Rapidly growing part of our collection Are in high demand by several academic units Help overcome challenges of being a 3-campus university

5 E-Book Holdings Electronic Information Resources database lists ≈ 69,000 titles –≈ 250 publishers –≈ 65 service providers (top 12 shown) Chadwyck-Healey15,469 MyiLibrary15,006 NetLibrary9,139 University of Michigan8,102 Books24x74,222 SPIE Digital Library4,119 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae2,844 ProQuest2,701 National Academies Press2,320 American Council of Learned Societies968 Cornell University Library925 University of Toronto Libraries600 CogNet (MIT Press) 471 Total66,886 –Will increase by ≈ 200,000 titles as records for major e-book collections are added to EIR and Sirsi databases 60% 90%

6 E-Book Collections Commercial Public Local

7 Commercial collections Represents over 95% of holdings When possible being made available on the Coutts MyiLibrary platform

8 Public collections Internet Archive Open Content Alliance

9 Internet Archive Internet Archive established in 1996 Archive consists of –Software34,000+files –Audio112,000+files –Moving Images33,000+files –Texts27,000+titles Details at

10 Open Content Alliance Launched in 2005 as a partnership of 61 members Goal: to build a permanent archive of digitized texts and multimedia content in all languages Being built as an open repository –Open to the world, for the use by individuals and organizations

11 Local collections Initial focus –Single items –Small collections –Demonstration projects Current focus –Large scale digitization

12 U of T Library - Pilot Year Robotic scanning (Kirtas) What we learned –Scanner limitations –Image quality –Costs –Collections –Willingness to participate

13 U of T Library - Current Activities Large scale project New scanners –Internet Archive Scribe scanner In-depth subject collections

14 Where will we put the local collections? Will be housed on Servers at the University of Toronto Library Now considering interface options Factors are: –Familiarity of interface –File size –New developments

15 How Will Users Find E-Books? We already have MARC records Records for each e-book are put into our electronic resources database Existing catalogue records will be augmented with links to e-books So, users will find e-books in Library catalogue and with other e-resources

16 Where are we headed? Many questions to be answered Changing user expectations and demands Changing opportunities with publishers

17 Questions