Download: When allowed by copyright, you can sign in and download all of the publication or certain pages that you select. If you are not logged in with your MSU credentials, you can still download one page at a time.
Search in this Text: Search the entire publication to locate a certain name or other word of interest.
Jump to Section: If the item has chapter or other divisions, this may let you jump between them, though this may not always work well.
Get this Item: This provides links to (1) search WordCat to see if an area library has the book and (2) see if it is available to view on Google Books.
Collections: Add this item to a collection (folder) of items that are of interest to you. You can share the collection link with others!
Share: Get a permanent link to the publication or to a specific page in the publication.
While some of the options are intuitive, click on View for the following options:
Plain Text: Converts the words on the page to plain text, which can be copy and pasted into a Word file if needed.
Image: Displays a scan of the page. This is the default.
Scroll: Allows you to go through publication as you would a long PDF document.
Flip: Lets you view two pages at a time and flip through it as you would with an ebook reader.
Thumbnails: See Thumbnail imprints for each page in the document. Allows you to quickly browse the document.
Books tagged as "Limited (search only)" are restricted due to copyright, and HathiTrust cannot provide access to the full document. You can, however, search within the text to determine if it is relevant. For restricted books, the search results will provide you with a list which contains the page scan number, the page number from the original physical volume, and how many times the search term appears on each page.
This can help you identify whether the publication is relevant. You can then search the MSU Libraries' Catalog to see if it is available. If not, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan, and the library will try to get it from another university library for you.
