Research Guides: HathiTrust Digital Library: About HathiTrust

HathiTrust (pronounced 'hah-tee') is a partnership of libraries and research institutions that have come together to build and share a digital repository of print works. Begun in 2008, the goal of the partnership is to both preserve and provide access to print works. HathiTrust has pursued this goal chiefly by digitizing materials like books and journals from library collections and making them available in HathiTrust Digital Library.

HathiTrust
HathiTrust offers millions of books digitized from libraries around the world. FSU users have full-text access and downloading capabilities for those items in the public domain, including:
» US federal government documents,
» Works published before 1923,
» Works still protected by copyright, but made available to HathiTrust with the permission of the copyright holder.

Go to the HathiTrust homepage.
Click on the yellow 'Log In' button.
Select FSU from the drop-down menu and click 'Continue.'
Enter your FSU ID and password and click 'Continue.'

What is Available to FSU Scholars?

FSU students and employees have full-text access and downloading capabilities for those items in the public domain.

To access all the content and services available to FSU users you must first log in by following these steps:

Go to the HathiTrust homepage.
Click on the yellow 'Log In' button.
Select FSU from the drop-down menu and click 'Continue.'
Enter your FSU ID and password and click 'Continue.'

Guide Authors

This guide was originally published in 2012. Minor revisions and updates by Adam Beauchamp in 2021.

Except where otherwise noted, the content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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