There are several ways to search works in HathiTrust:
Catalog Search: Search descriptive fields such as Title, Author, Publication Date, etc
Full-text Search: Use keywords to search the full-text of all works in HathiTrust.
Collection Builder (Personal Collections): Search inside a collection of works that you or others have created.
Search in a Text: When reading a book, use keywords to search inside that volume alone.
Non-linguistic content, such as graphs, charts and illustrations, is not searchable currently.
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
Searching the full-text of a subset of materials
Add the books you want to search within to a personal collection.
Search within that personal collection.
Searching within a text
The Search in a Text feature is available in the left sidebar. Enter your search terms in the search bar and then select the Submit Search magnifying glass icon.
We offer a number of features for searching within a book.
You can change the order in which search results are displayed: by page scan or by relevance.
You can turn search term highlighting on the book pages on or off as desired.
You can resize the sidebar by dragging the Close Sidebar icon to make the search results wider or narrower.
Search results can load in the sidebar so you can explore the search results while viewing the book pages at the same time. If you want your search results to appear in a separate tab, check the “Open result in a new window” checkbox before submitting your search terms.
You can clear your search if you’re done with searching in the text, or you can just minimize that section in the sidebar by clicking on “Search in this Text.”