HahtiTrust - The Global Library
by Nancy Sackheim
HahtiTrust ( pronounced hot tea trust) is a massive digital library bringing together materials digitized by Google, the Internet Archive, libraries at the 140 (and growing) HathiTrust partner institutions, and other commercial digitization projects. It includes searchable access to over 13.5 million volumes--including over 6.8 million books, over 630,000 government documents, and over 350,000 serial publications--with full text ("Open View") access to 38% of these materials (over 5.1 million volumes). Also includes full text access to the following publications not fully viewable in Google Books:
books scanned by HathiTrust member libraries and the Internet Archive, but not by Google (there are thousands of these, with more added continuously)
U.S. books published between 1923 and 1963 for which copyright was not renewed (170,000+ and growing)
U.K. books published 1874-1944 and Canadian & Australian books published 1894-1964 for which copyright was not renewed (100,000+ and growing)
Discovering the HathiTrust Digital Library Collection , a webcast by Angelina Zaytsev will walk you through a variety of ways to access this staggeringly vast repository of written material from all over the world. No matter your research topic, HahtiTrust has you covered!
