HathiTrust Digital Library
Archives · HathiTrust (partnership of research libraries, hosted at the University of Michigan)
- Details checked
- Access confirmed
- Used and reviewed
Scans pooled by research libraries: older books read in full, newer ones searchable so you can pin down a page or a quotation.
Before you rely on itIn-copyright volumes are search-only, and downloading a whole public-domain book usually needs a login from a partner university; guests are limited to a page at a time.
Strongest for academic and historical books, and for checking which page of an edition a citation refers to.Community pick
Details
- How you get in
- MixedSome of it is open; some needs an account or a subscription.
- Rights
- Mixed rightsHoldings differ: check the statement on the item itself.
- Subjects
- General · History · Literature · Social sciences · Law
- Formats
- Scan · PDF · Web
- Languages
- Multilingual, mostly English
- Size
- around 18 million digitised volumes, of which a minority are viewable in full
- Run by
- HathiTrust (partnership of research libraries, hosted at the University of Michigan)
- Address
- hathitrust.org
What we checked
- Details checked
The name, address and search page were opened and checked against each other. Last run .
- Access confirmed
How you get a book here, and on what terms, was read from the library’s own statement. Last run .
- Used and reviewed
An editor searched it for real coursework and wrote the note explaining when to come here. Last run .
Every library here is authorised; shadow libraries are not listed. What the marks cover
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