Access Determination for HathiTrust Objects

Introduction

This document describes the logic governing application access to derivatives of objects in the HathiTrust digital repository.  Currently, the HathiTrust pageturner, image server, and viewer for print disabled users implement this logic.  The HathiTrust Data API implements a different decision matrix described in http://www.hathitrust.org/data_api [15].

The HathiTrust pageturner is a publicly accessible application. Users are not required to authenticate to gain access to the application itself.  Access to the derivatives of HathiTrust digital objects (page images, OCR and PDF) is controlled solely by application logic. The logic is based on a combination of several data sources.

• COSIGN and Shibboleth authentication systems
• Originating IP address
• HathiTrust Rights Database
• HathiTrust Print Holdings Database
• GeoIP Database
• HathiTrust Institution Orphan Access Agreement Database

These data constitute the domain of a mapping into a Final Access Status valueof “allow” or “deny.”

Access to a single page PDF and to a full volume PDF download,  when the  final access status is “allow”,  is a further function of the source of the digital object as recorded in the Rights Database.

Access to the elements of the user interface that give the user access to the derivatives is a function of the the final access status and source of the digital object.

Mapping to Final Access Status

The mapping to final access status starts by reading the rights attribute and source values from the Rights Database.  The Rights Attribute values appear in the first column of the Rights Matrix below.  These values are mapped as a function of User Type into either allow or deny.

Full PDF download access is yet a further mapping based on the source of the object.

User Types

This table lists the categories and properties on which the User Type is based.

Ordinary User (ORD)	An unauthenticated user not in a library building, or, a user authenticated with a University of Michigan COSIGN “friend” account.
Print-disabled User (SSD)	An authenticated user certified as print-disabled, as indicated by Shibboleth attribute or UM patron record[1] [5]
User within a library building (LIB)	A user at a computer with an IP address within a library building regardless of authentication. UM only, currently.
University of Michigan Affiliate (UM)	A University of Michigan COSIGN authenticated user and current student, staff, or faculty. Grants a superset of HT access privileges (e.g., Section 108).
HathiTrust Affiliate (HT)	A Shibboleth authenticated user from a HathiTrust partner institution

Rights Matrix

This table shows the determination of Final Access Status (allow or deny) as a function of the Rights Attribute and User Type from the Rights Database. Please refer to notes ^{[2], [3], [4], [5]} for further refinements to this mapping.

Rights Attribute	Final Access Status
1 Public domain	ORD allow SSD allow LIB allow UM allow HT allow
2 In-copyright	ORD deny SSD allow LIB deny UM deny HT deny
3 [2] [6] Out-of-print and brittle (implies in-copyright).	ORD deny SSD allow LIB allow UM allow[3] [8] HT deny
4 In-copyright, orphaned following a review period of 120 days. Access varies (see note).	ORD deny SSD allow LIB allow/deny[5] [13] UM allow HT allow/deny[5] [13]
5 Undetermined copyright status	ORD deny SSD allow LIB deny UM deny HT deny
6 Available only  to UM affiliates and UM walk-in patrons	ORD deny SSD allow LIB allow UM allow HT deny
7 Available to everyone in the world	ORD allow SSD allow LIB allow UM allow HT allow
8 Available to nobody; blocked for all users	ORD deny SSD deny LIB deny UM deny HT deny
9 [4] [12] Public domain only when viewed in the United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands or Virgin Islands.	ORD allow SSD allow LIB allow UM allow HT allow
10-15,17 These works carry a creative commons license.  As such, they have access identical to 7, above and are available to anyone in the world. Refer to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ [17] for details.	ORD allow SSD allow LIB allow UM allow HT allow
16 These are in-copyright works that are identified as orphan candidates through an extensive review process will be posted in a public catalog at UM for 120 days. Works left unclaimed by rights holders after this time will be considered orphans.	ORD deny SSD allow LIB deny UM allow HT allow
18 This work may be protected by copyright law. It is made available in HathiTrust with explicit permission of the copyright holder, assignee, or transferee. Permission must be requested from the appropriate party (indicated in the HathiTrust catalog record) for any subsequent use.	ORD allow SSD allow LIB allow UM allow HT allow

^[1] Access for User Type: Print Disabled (SSD)

Access to objects by users who have print disabilities is granted as follows, with the exception of objects with rights attribute value 8, if a given user:

Is authenticated and holds a Shibboleth credential with an eduPersonEntitlement attribute value of “http://www.hathitrust.org/access/enhancedText“ or “http://www.hathitrust.org/access/enhancedTextProxy” or is authenticated with COSIGN and in a registry list provided to HathiTrust by the University of Michigan Office of Services for Students with Disabilities. The volume must also be held by the institution to which the user belongs. The number of simultaneous viewers for Section 108 uses of in-copyright materials, including SSD, is limited on a per institution basis to the number of print copies held. The user’s lock on an item expires after 24 hours. See also http://www.hathitrust.org/shibboleth [18].

These users are designated SSD in the rights matrix.

^[2] Access to Section 108  Materials

A rights attribute of 3 is described as “out-of-print and brittle” and implies a status of in-copyright.  It is applied to materials that meet the requirements of Section 108 of U.S. Copyright Law. Access to digitized copies of these materials is granted, or may be in the future, to the following User Types (in addition to the SSD User Type who is granted access by virtue of print disability).

User Type: In Library Building

Access is granted by virtue of coming from an IP address that is physically within a library building.  Currently, only the University of Michigan library buildings are identified by IP address in the access software. The number of simultaneous viewers for Section 108 uses of in-copyright materials is limited on a per institution basis to the number of print copies held. The user’s lock on an item expires after 24 hours.

^[3] User Type: HathiTrust Affiliate

HathiTrust Affiliates are not currently given access to “out-of-print and brittle” Section 108 materials. Technically, it is not supported. It will become a possibility in the future when it is anticipated that the “out-of-print and brittle” designation will be supplied by the Print Holdings database, which stores holdings information for each HathiTrust partner institution.

User Type: University of Michigan Affiliate

Access is granted to COSIGN authenticated University of Michigan Affiliiate users when the item has a rights attribute of “3” in the Rights Table, indicating it is “out-of-print and brittle.” This information will in the future be supplied by the Print Holdings database. The number of simultaneous viewers is limited to the number of print copies held by the user’s institution.

Access to 1-Page PDF and Full PDF Download

Access to a 1-page PDF of a page image is granted to all users for which the final access status in the Rights Matrix is “allow.”

The following table collapses the nine rights attribute values into two categories that are convenient for determining access to full volume PDF downloads. As is evident, only the OPEN allows full volume PDF downloads.

Rights category	Rights attributes
Public domain (OPEN)	1
Open access (OPEN)	7, 10-15,17,18
Public domain in geographical U.S. (OPEN)	9
In copyright, blocked, UM only (CLOSED)	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,16

The following table uses the rights categories from the previous table together with the source attribute from the Rights Database to define the cases where full volume PDF download is allowed and where it devolves to only 1-page PDF support.

Source (code)	Rights category	Authenticated	Not Authenticated	SSD
Google (1)	OPEN	N pages	1 page	N pages
Google (1)	CLOSED	0 pages	0 pages	1 page
DLPS (2)	OPEN (only case)	N pages	N pages	N pages
UM Press (3)	OPEN (only case)	1 page	1 page	1 page
Internet Archive (4)	OPEN (only case)	N pages	N pages	N pages
Yale (5)	OPEN (only case)	N pages	N pages	N pages
Minnesota Digital Library (6)	x	x	x	x
Minnesota Historical Society (7)	x	x	x	x
Utah State University (8)	OPEN	N pages	N pages	N pages
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (9)	OPEN	N pages	N pages	N pages

^[4] Interpretation of Public Domain in U.S.

A rights attribute of 9 maps to a final access status of allow if the IP address of the user agent is within the United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands or Virgin Islands, U.S. as determined by a query to the GeoIP Database. The access is deny if the IP address originates elsewhere.

^[5] Interpretation of Orphan Works Status

Access to works with a rights attribute of 4 (orphan work) may or may not be granted.  Access depends upon the following.

1.     The work must be held (according to the Print Holdings Database) by the institution to which the authenticated user requesting access is affiliated.

2.     The holding institution must have agreed to grant access to orphan works in their holdings.

Interpretation of the Final Access Status in the User Interface

The following table details the elements of the user interface to which the user has access as a function of the final access status.

	Final Access status
GUI element / function	allow	deny
View page image/OCR/1-page PDF	✪
Download PDF of full volume (HathiTrust Affiliates only) [*]	✪
Rotate/scale page image	✪
Navigate by pages or jump to a page	✪
Bookmark an item	✪	✪
Provide feedback on item rights and page image quality	✪	✪
Search the full text of the item, viewing search results as KWIC and hit counts per page	✪
Search the full text of the item, viewing search results ONLY as hit counts per page		✪
View metadata for the item	✪	✪

^[*] Note that full PDF download is not granted to the SSD User Type for the CLOSED Rights Category nor permitted for Rights Database source value 3 (UM Press).