(4 Dec 2020) In what came as a surprise to many librarians and industry observers, a report in The Hill this week revealed that the nonprofit Digital Public Library of America has been in discussions with Amazon Publishing on a potential a deal to make Amazon’s e-book content available in public libraries. And in a call with Publishers…
(4 September 2013) The Digital Public Library of America now offers 1.7 million metadata records associated with almost 3.5 million of HathiTrust’s freely available books, journals, government documents and more, on dp.la and through the DPLA application programming interface (API). This brings the DPLA’s offerings to 4.5 million records. Among the HathiTrust records are tens of thousands…
(Ann Arbor, MI, 18 June 2013) The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other openly available content. DPLA provides an online portal to freely available digital material held by libraries, archives, and museums across the United…
(18 April 2013) The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched a beta of its discovery portal and open platform today. The portal delivers millions of materials found in American archives, libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions to students, teachers, scholars, and the public. Far more than a search engine, the portal provides innovative ways…
(20 April 2013) The Digital Public Library of America is up and running. It has millions of records, many of them linked to full text and images, including many from and about Asia. For example, the 2,000 hits for Indonesia include links to botanical catalogues of the nineteenth century, an image of a dagger handle…