LibGuides: HathiTrust Digital Library @ the WSU Libraries: Using the HathiTrust Digital Library: Searching, Viewing, and Downloading

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Overview

An important note! Many of us love the content in HathiTrust, but hated the interface. Its been updated, and is now much better! See Intro to the New Book Viewer - YouTube

Searching, Reading, Building Collections, and Accessibility
A User's Guide to HathiTrust (24-page searchable PDF)
Includes overview of the HathiTrust Digital Library and instructions for searching, viewing, and using the Collection Builder.
Help - Using the Digital Library
Provides an overview of logging in, searching and viewing books, using Collection Builder, and priinting/downloading (also a discussion of HathiTrust's scanning and OCR quality process)
HathiTrust Resources and Guides
"This page contains resources that partners can use to help disseminate information about HathiTrust to their constituents. The resources are of broader interest to non-partners wishing to learn about HathiTrust and HathiTrust services as well. See also HathiTrust's News and Publications page, which includes recent papers and publications, press releases and announcements, links to mentions of HathiTrust around the Web, and HathiTrust's monthly newsletter."
Very helpful!
The HathiTrust Digital Library
Access and Use Policies
"The possible Access and Use statements that apply to each book are listed below. More information about copyright determinations in HathiTrust can be found on the Copyright page ."

HathiTrust Search Box Web Widgets

HathiTrust Search Box Web Widgets
"You can add a search widget to any HTML page. Simply copy and paste the code below for the search box you are interested in...."
Provides multiple embedded search box examples.

Example of a Catalog Search with Multiple Options:

Example of a Fulltext Search with Full View Options