Stanford and Yale teamed up in 2018 to support the HathiTrust Copyright Review Program by funding the ongoing work of a seasoned copyright reviewer. As noted on the program website, since 2008, more than 50 reviewers at 22 libraries have reviewed 600,000 items, determining that more than 320,000 are no longer protected by copyright and have entered the public domain.
 
Yale Library had funding to support the program, but not staff with available time to contribute. This dilemma was raised at an Ivy Plus Libraries’ Collection Development Group meeting in fall 2017, where a colleague from Stanford noted they had a staff member, Judy Marsh, who had extensive copyright review experience and was preparing to retire but wished to continue this work. That conversation led to a joint funding arrangement where Stanford and Yale are supporting Ms. Marsh to spend up to 20 hours a week to work for HathiTrust as an experienced, highly skilled copyright reviewer. Since starting this arrangement in July 2018, Ms. Marsh has conducted 5,664 reviews with 3,577 items entering the public domain. This is a creative example of member institutions collaborating to advance the mission of HathiTrust.

Presenter: Daniel Dollar, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, Yale University Library
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST/ 11:00 a.m. PST