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HathiTrust coordinates collective action to build and maintain the largest independent collection of digitized and preserved U.S. Federal Documents. The collaborative program improves digital quality and resource discovery, collaborates with shared print collection initiatives, and enables broader access to a growing range of materials published by the U.S government for research and scholarship. </span></p> </div> <div class="mainplain"><h2><b>Benefits of the U.S. Federal Documents Program</b></h2> <h3><b>Preserve the Public Record for Access</b></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Provide enduring access to the published record of U.S. government in a non-commercial, library-managed environment.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Access digitized items from dozens of entities including Congressional Committee Hearings, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Army.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Provide an alternative to subscription platforms that offer U.S. Government publications as licensed content. Most titles in HathiTrust’s U.S. Fed Docs collection are available for reading access in the U.S. public domain (some globally).</span></li> </ul> <h3><b>Empower Community and Democracy</b></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Solve shared problems related to identifying, cataloging, digitizing, organizing, preserving, hosting, and providing access to U.S. federal documents held by libraries.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Draw on an expert group of member advisors who bring perspective to strategy and collection decisions. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable journalistic, legal, scholarly, and independent research using U.S. government publications through digital access to items otherwise held only in print. </span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="pbs"> <div class="pb"> <div class="pb-contents"><p>Explore more than 1.4 million items in the U.S. Federal Docs collection!</p> </div> <div class="pb-link"> <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis&c=2062901859" class="link-arrow"><span>U.S. Federal Document Collection</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="pb"> <div class="pb-contents"><p>Read more about the complete profile of the U.S. Federal Documents Collection in this report.</p> </div> <div class="pb-link"> <a href="https://www.hathitrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FederalDocumentsCollectionProfile.pdf" class="link-arrow"><span>Collection Profile of the U.S. Federal Documents </span></a> </div> </div> <div class="pb"> <div class="pb-contents"><p>The U.S. Federal Documents Advisory Committee includes member librarians with deep knowledge of the government documents landscape.</p> </div> <div class="pb-link"> <a href="https://www.hathitrust.org/member-libraries/governance-groups/federal-documents-advisory-committee/" class="link-arrow"><span>U.S. Federal Documents Advisory Committee</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="btt-wrapper"> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-arrow" href="#content">Top</a> </div> </main> <hathi-website-footer></hathi-website-footer> </div><!-- /#maindocument --> <script src="https://www.hathitrust.org/wp-content/themes/wordpress-hathitrust/dist/js/scripts.min.js?ver=1726248616" id="site-scripts-js"></script> <script src="https://www.hathitrust.org/wp-content/themes/wordpress-hathitrust/dist/js/cookies.min.js?ver=1726248616" id="cookie-scripts-js"></script> <script src="https://www.hathitrust.org/wp-content/themes/wordpress-hathitrust/src/js/matomo.js?ver=1710196128" id="matomo-script-js"></script> </body> </html>