HathiTrust is an international partnership of over 100 academic libraries and research institutes, collaborating to ensure the preservation and accessibility of scholarly knowledge. Its vast online library contains millions of digitized books, journals, and other materials, offering a rich resource for both researchers and the general public. Wesleyan joined HathiTrust in 2016.
Wesleyan students, faculty, & alumni can now easily log-in (at the top-right of any page in Hathi) to
Have questions about or problems using HathiTrust Digital Library?
Log in to Hathi to access all content and services available to Wesleyan. Hathi enables easy log-in throughout its site.
The above site is optimized for mobile devices.
HathiTrust is fully indexed and available in the library's OneSearch discovery tool.
A prototype of Hathi's catalog, based on OCLC's WorldCat local interface.
Hathi offers two basic ways to search its content:
By unchecking the Full view only box above, you can search all of Hathi's content (including limited view search-only titles).
HathiTrust offers full-text search across all items in the repository (including public domain and in copyright works). By unchecking the Full view only box above, you can search all of Hathi's content (including limited view search-only titles).
Facets and the Catalog record
Use the many facets on the left of your set of search results to further refine and narrow your search. The Catalog record link of any particular title will lead you to a fuller description of the item and to options for bibliographic citation.
All items vs. "full view"
Hathi search results will include the above tab options to allow you to view all items resulting from your search, or to focus only on those titles whose content is entirely viewable and downloadable. Click on "Full view" for these titles to view the book.
Why does Hathi include so many limited-view titles?
Millions of in-copyright books have been digitized by HathiTrust primarily for long-term digital preservation, with the expectation of eventual access upon copyright expiration. Within the Hathi database, these titles are labeled as "Limited (search only)" and are not normally viewable. They can be utilized for certain fair use research purposes. One can search the full text of an in-copyright book within Hathi to determine how many times a particular term occurs in the text, for instance, and perform other text mining functions.
Why can't I see the full text of every title?
Books that are still in copyright are not fully viewable to users as Hathi both respects and adheres to U.S. and international copyright law. Hathi does enable access to in-copyright titles under certain circumstances, such as to patrons with print disabilities.
