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HathiTrust Research Center Analytics
Supporting large-scale text analysis of the HathiTrust Digital Library for educational and non-profit research
Where to start: understanding the data
Text as data
The data you analyze in HTRC Analytics is text that comes from the HathiTrust Digital Library, a corpus of 18+ million digitized items, provided by more than 60 academic and research libraries across North America and other countries. This corpus opens doors for researchers to study culture and history in new ways.
What does the collection look like?
The HathiTrust Digital Library is a massive collection, including but not limited to fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly works in many different languages and spanning the history of printed text. The chart below shows a breakdown of languages found in the digital library.
How can researchers access this much data?
Researchers get access to public domain and in-copyright texts in the form of worksets, derived datasets, and full text in data capsules, making HTRC an indispensable resource to research communities.
HTRC tools and services are built on a non-consumptive use policy which allows researchers to stay within the bounds of fair use when conducting their analyses.
Learn about the non-consumptive use policy
Read about previous projects using HTRC resources
New to HTRC Analytics?
Read through the New to HTRC? page to understand the foundational concepts for how to use the site.
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Explore and visualize
Create a graph showing word trends over time with Bookworm+HathiTrust. No coding required!
