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HathiTrust Offers Full-Text Search

HathiTrust offers full-text search of millions of digitized books and journals

Just a year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library today announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections: full-text searching capabilities across the entire library. Researchers can now search public domain and in-copyright works by keyword or phrase.

Based on open source Solr/Lucene technology, the service expands on an experimental search of public domain volumes introduced in November 2008. Full-text search will continue to be supported across the repository as it grows at a rate of hundreds of thousands of volumes every month.

“The HathiTrust partners are pleased to offer a search service that helps mine this growing body of authoritative library materials,” said HathiTrust Executive Director John Wilkin. “HathiTrust continues to distinguish itself with its reliability and with its efforts to broaden the availability of digitized library collections in the flow of scholarly discourse. We see this valuable discovery service as one in a series of major steps HathiTrust is taking to shed light on this vast body of material.”

In combination with the Library’s carefully curated bibliographic data, the new functionality allows researchers to more efficiently locate items relevant to their research. It also lays the foundation for future services such as full-text search with faceted browsing, advanced search, “more like this” options, and tools that can be used in computational research.

A research project in its own right, the effort to provide full-text searching capabilities across the repository has yielded valuable benchmarking data, methods, and code to the broader large-scale search community.

The HathiTrust partners are committed to developing the repository and its services to meet the long-term needs of their academic communities, and offer a unique resource on the Web for scholarship and research.

HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org) is a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia, and currently includes digitized volumes from the University of Michigan, University of California, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin.

Link to full-text search: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/

USA Today E-Edition Now Available

Students, faculty, and staff: You can now access USA Today's e-Edition from any on-campus location or opt-in to receive a morning Campus Buzz email notification alerting you of your e-Edition delivery. Try both of these services free of charge, and let USA Today know what you think.

The e-Edition means you can read an exact digital copy of USA Today's daily print edition -- it's designed to look like the paper version, but its dynamic digital portal means you'll have access to interactive and exclusive extra content.

To access the e-Edition, sign up for the Campus Buzz reminder email, or get additional info, go to:

http://usatoday.indiana.edu

Community of Libraries to Create Library Software

The Kuali Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce that a group of leading academic research libraries is partnering in the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) (pronounced Oh-LAY) project to develop software created specifically for the complex business management and workflow operations of academic and research libraries.

The Kuali Foundation welcomes the librarians and this new project as another important community source project by higher education, for higher education. This initiative will enable libraries worldwide to join a community dedicated to pioneering library capabilities to manage their increasingly digital resources and collections.

More than 300 libraries, educational institutions, professional organizations, and businesses participated in some phase of planning for the OLE project, which was supported by a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by Duke University. Based on that broad insight, OLE will create a next-generation library system that breaks away from print-based workflows and reflects the changing nature of library materials and new approaches to scholarly work. The project is designed to work well with other enterprise systems and to be easily modified to suit the needs of different institutions.

Read Kuali Foundation announcement.

IUCAT on Facebook

Facebook users can now use IUCAT, the statewide online catalog of the IU Libraries, within the popular social networking site. Find books and electronic books, print and online journals, DVDs, CDs, class reserve items, and more.

http://apps.facebook.com/iub_iucat

Honoring Veterans

To celebrate Veterans Day, observed as a federal holiday on November 11, Government Information and Kent Cooper Services honors the U.S. military with displays that will run through the end of the month.

A hanging display in the Wells Library (second floor, east tower) features reproductions of paintings done by a group of active duty soldier-artists at the Center of Military History. Entitled The Noncommissioned Office Images of an Army in Action, the images illustrate how non-commissioned officers commanded squads, gained mastery in advanced technology, trained soldiers, and completed a multitude of extraordinary missions over the past 200 years.

The department also features displays of Veterans Day throughout the years and the military at IU, thanks to Margaret Baechtold, Veterans Support Services Director.

Displays were coordinated by Kimberly Horne, Government Information and Kent Cooper Services.