Set Your Agricultural Publications Free in the HathiTrust Repository

The HathiTrust repository contains agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service publications from all 50 of the United States. But to freely display the post-1923 documents, HathiTrust requires a Permission Agreement form giving them a nonexclusive permission to distribute from the copyright holder. Agriculture librarians are encouraged to obtain signed Permission Agreement forms for the agricultural publications in HathiTrust from their state. Once Permission Agreement forms are obtained from your local copyright holding administrators, submit them to HathiTrust at (feedback@issues.hathitrust.org).     

Slicing and Dicing the Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Land Grant Research: A Survey of and Model for Digital Collections of Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Publications

The management and dissemination of agricultural experiment station and cooperative extension documents have been a challenge for over 100 years. Digitization of these documents, as well as the standardization and public dissemination that such projects can provide, represent both additional obstacles and possible solutions for addressing these challenges. The authors survey the current landscape of digital collections for agricultural experiment station and cooperative extension documents, after which they present a recent, efficient digitization project at the University of Idaho Library as a possible template for other institutions looking to digitize similar documents.