Welcome to HathiTrust

We are entering a new era of scholarship.

An era that requires more collaboration.

More transparency.

More curiosity.

That’s why HathiTrust exists — to lead this era by empowering a diverse collective of research and teaching libraries from around the globe.

Our digital library preserves the published record for durable, long-term, and lawful access, stewarded in partnership with the academic institutions supporting our work.

Our story.

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.