By Lynne Raughley, Interim Communications Director, University of Michigan Library.
The HathiTrust Digital Library was founded in 2008 by the U-M Library and other university library partners. Today it has sixty institutional partners and the digitized collections of some of the largest libraries in the world. It’s the digital library created by librarians for scholars and researchers—that is, for you.
Among HathiTrust’s almost 10 million volumes (and counting) you’ll find digitized content from partner libraries like the University of California, the Library of Congress, and Yale University that you won’t find online anywhere else—not even in Google Books. HathiTrust also offers full-text access to material that Google restricts, including:
- Government documents, including U.S. federal, state, and international
- More than 80,000 public domain works published in the U.S. between 1923-1963
- Foreign material in the public domain published between 1870-1922
- Publications opened in HathiTrust by their copyright holders, among them works from the U-M Regents, the U-M Press, the Society of American Archivists, and the many individuals and organizations, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, that share their work via Creative Commons licenses.
Looking for a particular quotation, or a specific person, place, or thing? Try HathiTrust’s full-text search feature to find all the volumes within its vast collection that contain your key words and phrases.
You can also create public and private collections, view and download full-length PDFs of public domain and open access content, and readily locate print versions of in-copyright items.
Students, faculty, and staff who have print disabilities may obtain full access to all the U-M owned volumes in HathiTrust, regardless of their copyright status. See www.hathitrust.org/accessibility for details.
Go to www.hathitrust.org, and don’t forget to log in to make use of all available features. Or go to m.hathitrust.org on your mobile device for an enhanced small-screen reading experience.
