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HathiTrust Digital Library

This guide provides an overview of HathiTrust and how to use it.

HathiTrust

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"HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items in 400+ languages in the HathiTrust Digital Library. We offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law."

Mississippi State University became a HathiTrust partner in the Spring of 2020.

Partner institutions as well as their users gain many benefits from joining HathiTrust!

  • Improved downloading permissions (full volumes for works not in copyright)
  • Ability to create and save collections
  • Access to text-enabled PDFs regardless of copyright status for users with print disabilities (applies only to works owned by MSU Libraries)

Log in instructions

Log in to enable more downloading options and other features!

  1. Click on the Log In button at the top right-hand side of the page.
  2. Choose Mississippi State University from the drop-down menu and click Continue.
  3. Log in using your MSU credentials.

HathiTrust log in screen

 

Acknowledgment

The guide authors thank Penny Pugh of West Virginia University for permission to use content from the HathiTrust guide that she created (https://libguides.wvu.edu/hathitrust).