Hathi Trust links

Certain  MNCAT records will now include links to HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for collections from over 25 major academic and research libraries. The text of all of these materials in Hathi can be searched and many of them are available in full text. The University of Minnesota is one of the major library partners that have launched HathiTrust Shared Digital Repository through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). 
 
The links are shown with a HathiTrust icon.
  For individual volumes, an orange HathiTrust icon means the complete text of the item is available for viewing online.

  A gray HathiTrust icon means that the book is searchable but the actual text is not displayed. In other words, you can use Hathi as a search mechanism to identify page numbers where your search word appears within the actual book. This will help you decide if you want to check out the book from the University Libraries. If there are multiple volumes the link will take you to a HathiTrust page that shows you the availability of the individual volumes.

 

Incidentally, the name Hathi is from the Hindi and Sanskrit word for "elephant".

 

You can also search HathiTrust directly at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/.

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Try it out in MNCAT Plus - here are a few titles we own that are also available or searchable in Hathi:

Examples of titles searchable in Hathi:

• The sun fetcher : poems  by Michael Dennis Browne
  

(note: the word sky appears seven times in this book. Use Hathi to get the page numbers. (Find the book in the library or use the Get It service)

• Graceland : going home with Elvis by Karal Ann Marling

Examples of titles available full text in Hathi:

• The Select poems of Dr. Thomas Dunn English

• The mammals of Minnesota, a scientific and popular account by Herrick