This is pretty nifty. Hathi Trust is a digital repository of materials being scanned at research libraries. (Hathi is the Hindi word for “elephant.”) You can get the fulltext of out-of-copyright books and government publications. I found examples of old government documents with fulltext in Hathi Trust, but not in Google nor Google Books. I’ll be using this a lot, I suspect.
June 20, 2009
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Posted by Carol Spector under Books, Databases, Government Documents, Reference & Research Services[2] Comments
June 23, 2009 at 9:26 am
Great resources! Thanks Carol for posting it.
June 23, 2009 at 9:41 am
Yes, very cool. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Carol. It’s nice to know these institutions are collaborating to provide an alternative to Google Books.