LibGuides: HathiTrust Digital Library : HathiTrust Member Benefits

Overview

The HathiTrust (pronounced 'hah-tee') houses a collection of over 15 million volumes of searchable books, journals, and government documents, including 5.8 million available as full text online. HathiTrust is a partnership of over 100 libraries and research institutions that have come together to build and share a digital repository of print works. Begun in 2008, the goal of the partnership is to build a comprehensive archive of published literature from around the world available in the public domain through a digital library. The HathiTrust has pursued this goal chiefly by digitizing materials like books and journals from major library collections and other partners, such as Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft. Central Washington University joined in 2020.

How to access Member-only features

1. Log in to HathiTrust by clicking on the yellow "Log In" button on the top right of the HathiTrust website.

2. Select "Central Washington University" from the institution dropdown menu.

3. Log in with your CWU credentials.

What can I do as a member of HathiTrust?

Anyone can search and view full-text content in HathiTrust but as members, patrons at member institutions benefit from added features. Below is a brief summary of what you can do after logging in.

As a member of HathiTrust, CWU has the following privileges:	Public access	With CWU login
Search full-text of all volumes	Yes	Yes
View full-text of non-copyright volumes	Yes	Yes
Download single page of non-copyright volumes (PDF image)	Yes	Yes
Download full volume of non-copyright volumes (PDF image)	No	Yes
Search within collections	Yes	Yes
Create and save your own collections	No	Yes
Use of accessibility features	No	Yes

*Chart adapted from Syracuse University Libraries

Relevant HathiTrust Pages

HathiTrust Digital Library
Preserves and provides lawful access to the 17 million digitized items.
HathiTrust Research Center
Offers services that support use of the HathiTrust corpus as a dataset for analysis via text and data mining research.
U.S. Federal Documents Program
Federal documents are a significant portion of the overall HathiTrust collection. Searchable collections include: U.S. Federal Documents, the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Bureau of Indian Affairs publications, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publications, Foreign Relations of the United States, Statistical Abstract of the United States, and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Copyright Review Program
The Copyright Review team finds and opens public domain materials in the U.S. and around the world.
Shared Print Program
HathiTrust Shared Print Program attempts to ensure preservation of print and digital collections by linking the two, to reduce overall costs of collection management for HathiTrust members, and to catalyze national/continental collective management of collections.
HathiTrust Accessibility Policy
HathiTrust aims to provide a website that is accessible to everyone. In collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), HathiTrust will soon be offering access to its full repository to all eligible blind and visually impaired users in the United States. Those who have a print disability may be eligible to receive special lawful access to the entire HathiTrust collection, even those volumes restricted for general use.