Database Tutorials

HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. We offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

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Widener is not a partner institution, but this only prevents you from downloading some full books.  Yet, this database provides tremendous access for non-member  institutions, allowing users to:

• Search across the entire collection.
• Read and view works that are “full-view”.
• Search within works that are “limited search-only”.
• Download a single page at a time from works that have download restrictions (e.g., works that are in the public domain but were digitized by Google or other vendors with contractual limitations).
• Download an entire work that doesn’t have download restrictions (e.g., works digitized by Internet Archive and other organizations, works that have been opened with a Creative Commons license).

You can also log in using an existing account (Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft)  and create a Guest Account:

• Logged in guests can create, save and share public or private collections.

• To create a guest account select  LOG IN and the click on See options to log in a a guest and then the links to (Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft.

 

Searching for a Specific Book

• Click on Advanced Search
• Ex: Search for the book title "Manifesto of the Communist Party"
• Ensure that Fall Text & All Fields and all of these words is selected.
• Note: Under Additional Search Options, Full View Only is automatically selected.

 

Brief Results

• When you click on Advanced Search, you may get multiple versions of the same title. just select one:

 

Detailed Record

 

• When you click on Full View, you obtain the Detailed Record.

Important Features of the Detailed Record

• You can read the text directly on the screen by scrolling through the pages on the right side. 
• The left navigation offers additional options:
  • Search this text: Click here and a box appears below, You can enter a word of phrase to search in the text.
  • Download: This book allows you to download one page at a time, but other titles my offer the ability to download the full book.
  • Get This Item: When you click here, a link to Find in Library appears. Click on this link ant it will search nearby library catalogs, including Wolfgram Memorial Library, for the title.

 

Searching for a Quotation

• Click on Advanced Search
• Ex: Search for the Quote "off with her head"
• Ensure that Fall Text & All Fields and the exact phrase is selected.
• Note: Under Additional Search Options, Full View Only is automatically selected.

Brief Results

• As this is a quote from "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" select a result from this book.  

 

Detailed Record

• When you click on Full View, you obtain the Detailed Record.

Important Features of the Detailed Record

• When you select Search in This Text a box appears underneath. Enter the quote "Off with her head." It indicates: Showing 1-6 of 6 results for "Off with her Head"
• You will see the list of the pages on where this quote is included underneath with the hyperlinked page numbers:

 

Note: This result indicates that the quote is on page 115 and provides an except from the book that lists the quote in highlighted text.

• Click on the page number to see the quote in context: