HathiTrust Digital Library: HathiTrust Research Center Analytics

Digitized collections of research libraries around the nation

What is HathiTrust Research Center Analytics?

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is the research arm of the HathiTrust. HTRC provides researchers with tools to access the vast amounts of information in the HathiTrust Digital Library for scholarly research. Most tools will require logging into an account. Anyone possessing an email address from a nonprofit institution of higher education is allowed to register, including those whose institutions are not HathiTrust members.

Tools from HTRC Analytics

HathiTrust Research Center creates tools for researchers to analyze the text of content in the HathiTrust Digital Library. These tools make it easier for researchers to preform text analysis and many have easy to use interfaces.

Extracted Features
A unrestricted dataset of metadata and word count for each page in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Text Analysis Algorithms
HTRC Algorithms are web-based, click-and-run tools to perform computational text analysis on volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library. The algorithms can help you explore, analyze, and visualize public worksets or those you have created.
Data Capsules
A system of a secure computing environments for performing researcher-driven text analysis on the HathiTrust corpus. All users may access public domain items but access to items in copyright are restricted to member-affiliated researchers.
HTRC Beta Tools
Experiment with HTRC in-development and beta tools. Some tools may eventually be integrated into HTRC's suite of tools, or they may be taken down. Some tools may require experience with programming.

Worksets and Datasets

Worksets

HTRC worksets are user-created collections of HathiTrust volumes to be treated as data and analyzed using HTRC tools and services. Worksets are curated by researchers, and they can be shared and cited to improve reproducibility.

Datasets

HTRC releases research datasets to facilitate text analysis using the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Non-Comsumptive Use Research Policy

HathiTrust's Non-Consumptive Use Research Policy defines non-consumptive research and non-consumptive exports as implemented for non-profit research and educational analytical use of the HathiTrust collection.

Help Links

If you have questions about HathiTrust Research Center, here are a few helpful pages:

HTRC Frequently Asked Questions
A list of questions and answers to help you get started using HTRC.
Getting Started Guide
A guide for getting started using HathiTrust Research Center tools in your research.

Or you can submit your own questions to HTRC via email at htrc-help@hathitrust.org or participate in one of HTRC's office hours.