The shared digital library known as HathiTrust has nearly doubled in size since it was announced a year ago, now containing more than 3.8 million volumes, including items from IU. About 16 percent of all materials are in the public domain.

 

Users may search bibliographic data such as title, author, or ISBNfor all items in the library. Although full-text searching is now limited, efforts are under way to offer a mechanism to search across the entire repository.

 

Launched jointly by the 12-university consortium known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the 11 university libraries of the University of California system, HathiTrust provides libraries a means to archive and provide access to their digital content.