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

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

3. Background:

4. 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.

5. 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.
Supervisor orientation 17Jan2017 pdf

6. Copyright Review Management System (CRMS)
Accomplishments, :
Volumes determined to be Public Domain
U.S. publications ( )
339,880
54%
United Kingdom, Canada, Australia (1870’s-1940’s)
289,844
52%
Total
629,724
53%

7. 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 Candidate pool : 81,300 Staffing : 26 reviewers
Reviewer commitments : Through December 2017

8. 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

9. How the Copyright Review System works:

10. 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

12. 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)

13. Searchable Wiki

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

16. Other resources for checking, including Stanford Database of renewals:

17. Checked Stanford Database; no match found

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

19. Example of IC (In copyright)

20. Results/Statistics:

23. Historical Reviews

26. Statistics

27. 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

28. Interesting Finds:

33. Thank you!
Any questions?