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Search the Website: Search the content of the HathiTrust information website using keywords. This DOES NOT include the digital library content that you find in the Collection.
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Search the Collection: Search texts in the HathiTrust Digital Library collection using the methods listed below.
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By default, your search results will include all the texts that are available to you to access online — known as “Full View” — limited by the search terms that you apply. These titles are available for you to access because they are in the public domain or licensed as open access. To Once you reach the search results page, you can also include texts that are restricted by copyright in your search results , specify by specifying “All Items” under "Item Viewability.”
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There are several ways to search items in HathiTrust:
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When searching the Collection you can search Full Text & All Fields to search all the text of all the volumes in the entire digital library including book information such as Title or Author.
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Narrow your search to only book information, such as Title, Publisher, and Author, by choosing All Fields indicated in the dropdown menu options.
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Use other specific fields in the dropdown menu when you know the exact Title, Publisher, Author, or other book information.
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Search Individual Collections: Search inside a featured, shared, or personal collection of works that you or others have created. (See Instructions below.)
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Search in a Text: When reading a book, use keywords to search inside that volume alone. (See Instructions below.)
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Other Search Tips
Boolean Searching:
Use AND and OR (capitalized) between words to combine them with Boolean logic: (heart OR cardiac) AND surgery will find works about heart surgery or cardiac surgery.
When searching in Full Text & All Fields, use a minus (-) to remove words from the result, e.g., heart -cardiac will find items containing the word heart that do not include the word cardiac.The word NOT isn’t available as a Boolean search term.
Phrase Searching: Use quotes to search an exact phrase: e.g., "occult fiction"
Wildcards: Use * or ? to search for alternate forms of a word. Use * to represent several characters, and ? for a single character: e.g., optim* will find optimal, optimize or optimum; wom?n will find woman and women. Wildcard search is not available in Full Text & All Fields search.
If you would simply like to browse without entering a search term, you can enter * by itself.
Advanced Search
Using Advanced Search, you may select multiple fields for a combined search enabling more detailed searching. Your options include Full Text & All Fields, All Fields, and other specific fields indicating book information.
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Check the Always use the Full Text Index option to to display search results at the item level and to be able to add your search results to a collection.
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Non-linguistic content, such as graphs, charts and illustrations, is not searchable currently. |
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You can search materials printed in a non-Latin alphabet. We have searchable text for volumes in a variety of non-Western scripts including Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean. If you are having trouble searching a volume, please let us know by submitting a ticket from our website. |
\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions
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The Search in a Text feature is available in the sidebar when you open a book. Enter your search terms in the search bar and then click click the Submit Search magnifying glass icon.
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