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Building your own collection allows you to save HathiTrust books to a list that you control. You can add or remove books from your collection, make it public or private, share it with others, and search within the books that are in your collection. You can make as many collections as you wish, and there is no size limit to collections.
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Collections are temporary if you aren’t logged in. To save them, make sure you are logged in with your university account or a guest account. |
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Add a book to your collection from a Full Text & All Fields Search
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Enter your search criteria and click on the Search button.
When the search results load, use the checkboxes next to each title to select books to include in your collection. You can also use the “Select all items” checkbox to select all search results on the page.
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A message will appear once the books are successfully added to your collection. If you are creating a new collection, you will be prompted to type a name for your collection, and the items you had selected will be automatically added to it.
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Add a book
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to your collection while viewing it in the Book Viewer
Open a book in HathiTrust, such as this collection of “Fairy tales from the far North, by P. C. Asbjörnsen.”
In the left sidebar, scroll down to Collections. Select the heading to expand the section.
Select one of your existing collections or select the New Collection option. Then click on the Add button to confirm.
A message will appear letting you know that the books were successfully added to your collection. If you are creating a new collection, you will be prompted to type a name for the collection, and the books you had selected will be automatically added to your new collection.
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Your collections cannot have shared ownership. To collaborate on building and managing a collection, we recommend logging into HathiTrust with a guest account and sharing the login credentials with your collaborators. |
Download the metadata from your collection
You can download the metadata from any collection that you can view. Once you open the collection, look in the left sidebar for the “Download metadata” section. Expanding it will show you these options:
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