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Features |
Google Books Project |
HathiTrust |
Numbers |
15 million items. |
13 million items and is growing. |
Content Type |
Books, journals, magazines, reports, and government documents. |
Books, journals, magazines, reports, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, government documents and more. |
Organization |
Google owns the Google Book Project and decides how to manage it. |
Partnership of libraries and institutions, with membership and shared governance. Membership needed to download titles |
Full-Text Search |
Full-text search within all the content. Browse to sections containing the search terms. |
Full-text search within all the content. |
Full-Text Download |
Full-text download of the whole item for those items that are out of copyright. |
Full-text download for members of HathiTrust of the whole item for those items that are out of copyright. |
Copyright status |
Does not work on identifying copyright status of "orphan" works. |
Will work on identifying copyright status of "orphan" works. |
WorldCat Records |
MARC records in WorldCat that lead to the project's "landing page" |
MARC records in WorldCat that lead to the project's "landing page" |
Long term archiving and reformatting as needed of full text |
Not a key part of the mission. |
Is a key part of the mission. |
Replacement of library material |
Not a source of replacements for missing library materials. |
Is a source of replacements for missing library materials, under US Copyright Section 108. |
Table courtesy of Barbara DeFelice and William Fontaine, Dartmouth College.