Thanks very much, Eric. I'll definitely take a look at your blog post. - Daniel Daniel Lovins Head of Knowledge Access, Design & Development Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services New York University, Division of Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY 10003-7112 [log in to unmask] 212-998-2489 On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Daniel Lovins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: If anyone from HathiTrust is watching this thread, I'd also be curious if they're considering bulk record downloads via something other than OAI [1]. [1] http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project-oai-harvesting While the process may not be exactly what you are looking for, it is possible to use the HathiTrust Research Center's services to do bulk downloads (of MARC and data records). [2] In a nutshell process is to: 1. create an account 2. create a work set 3. fill the set with HathiTrust items 4. use the Marc_Downloader algorithm to obtain metadata 5. use their Data API to obtain full text [3] I blogged, very briefly, on this subject. [4] [2] https://htrc2.pti.indiana.edu/HTRC-UI-Portal2/ [3] http://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/HTRC+Data+API+Users+Guide [4] http://dh.crc.nd.edu/blog/2013/05/htrc/ -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame