What Were The Most Accessed Volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library During July 2013?
The most accessed volumes list (below) is included in the latest HathiTrust Update that was released today.
Before we get to the list, here is one other highlight from the new issue. Much more in the complete update.
Metadata
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon foundation has awarded $437,000 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Indiana University for an exciting new project entitled “Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project” (WCSA). The two-year project will focus on enriching and augmenting metadata for the HathiTrust corpus to support selection and discovery of the resources that scholars need to gather together for computational analysis and scholarly investigation. As part of the project, HTRC will release an open, competitive Request for Proposals in November 2013 with the intent to fund four prototyping projects that will build tools for enriching and augmenting metadata for the HathiTrust corpus.
Most Accessed Volumes–HathiTrust During July 2013
Some HT Statistics
At the moment HathiTrust Digital Library contains:
- 10,770,816 total volumes
- 5,648,302 book titles
- 281,279 serial titles
- 3,769,785,600 pages
- 483 terabytes
- 127 miles
- 8,751 tons
- 3,432,433 volumes(~32% of total) in the public domain
Visualize HT Holdings
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