CIC/HathiTrust Digital Repository - Introduction
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CIC/HathiTrust Digital Repository - Introduction
Known to scholars worldwide, CIC library collections reflect decades of careful investment. The CIC Library Directors have capitalized on these distinctive resources by co-founding a Digital Repository that upon completion will provide students, staff and faculty with secure access to an online library containing digitized versions of legacy print collections.
The CIC is a founding partner of HathiTrust, which will provide for broad accessibility and preservation considerations, as well as rich textual analysis features to assist researchers in data mining.
The CIC/HathiTrust Digital Repository also will serve as a foundation for further collective development strategies for archiving and disseminating formats such as newspapers, maps, audio/video files, and other more obscure research materials. Content will be stored in a format that can be accessed and archived to meet specific research needs. This collective project will benefit patrons by preserving and unifying collections of all member universities.