While COVID-19 has severely limited access to printed library books, more than 4.5 million volumes are available at your digital fingertips through the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Georgetown is a member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. In addition to accessing publicly-available volumes, Georgetown users can create reading lists, save items, and download full-text pdfs of public domain texts and titles held by the Georgetown University Library.
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is another tremendous resource for researchers. HTRC’s mission is to help researchers effectively work with massive amounts of text by developing software tools and infrastructure for analyzing text and data in HathiTrust holdings. HTRC provides a secure computational and data environment for scholars to perform research using the HathiTrust Digital Library.
HTRC recently announced the Extracted Features 2.0 dataset, which makes it easier for computers to analyze the text in HathiTrust materials and helps researchers find the information they need in sources they may not know exist. The dataset offers volume- and page-level data for more than 17 million volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library, including materials that aren’t publicly available through HathiTrust but may be available through interlibrary loan or other methods.
The Library is here to help you leverage HathiTrust resources for your research and teaching. Schedule a consultation by emailing digitalscholarship@georgetown.edu.