HathiTrust Digital Library

Many of the items in HathiTrust Digital Library are protected under copyright law, meaning that full-text viewing is not possible without the express permission of the copyright holder. Those items in the public domain can be viewed in their entirety (e.g. such as U.S. works published before 1929), as well as U.S. government documents, and items where the copyright holder gave permission to HathiTrust. Details about copyright can be found at https://www.hathitrust.org/help_copyright.

Additionally (from the HathiTrust web site): "Works published outside the U.S. prior to 1928 are in the public domain; however, due to the variations in copyright law in countries outside the U.S., it is estimated that 1898 is the earliest date foreign works may still be under copyright. Therefore, users accessing the volume from U.S. IP addresses will have access to the works published outside the U.S. from 1898 through 1928; however, users with non-U.S. IP addresses will not."

Not everything that has a record in HathiTrust Digital Library is available in its full-text form (indicated as "Full View"). Some books and journals have an "viewability" status of "Limited (search-only)."

Those works that are still under copyright display a "Limited (search-only)" status. You can still search within those works for your key terms, to better understand if the work has the content and context you seek. You can then place an interlibrary loan request to borrow a print version (full text) of that work for your research purposes.

HathiTrust catalog record with Limited access for the title, "Sari, sarong, and shorts."

For those items that are not restricted by copyright, the "Full View" option will appear in the Catalog record.

HathiTrust full view catalog record for the title, Vitruv und die Poliorketiker.

Clicking on the "Full View" link in a Catalog record will lead you to the HathiTrust Digital Library book reader view.

HathiTrust book reader (full text) view of the title, Vitruv und die Poliorketiker.

In the book reader or full text display, you have multiple methods to view the book or journal page image, such as:

• Vertical scroll
• Page flip, side by side
• Thumbnail overview
• One page at a time, page-by-page
• Plain text 

You can jump to specific page numbers or sections (e.g. table of contents), too, as well as search within the text of the item.

U-M users of HathiTrust Digital Library can download complete books in the public domain (or works available under a Creative Commons license). Guests can download one page at a time.

To download a book, display the "full view" of the item in the book reader. Click on the "Download" menu to expand your options. Click on the "LOGIN" link in the pop-up box. Select the "University of Michigan," and log in with your U-M credentials. Click on the whole book option to begin downloading the scanned image of the work. Please be patient while the system creates a PDF to download!