Our Research Center

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) facilitates non-profit and educational uses of the HathiTrust Digital Library by enabling computational analysis of public domain works and (on limited terms) in-copyright works from its collection.

The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.

Leveraging data storage and computational infrastructure at Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the HTRC will provision a secure computational and data environment for scholars to perform research using the HathiTrust Digital Library. The center will break new ground in the areas of text mining and non-consumptive research, allowing scholars to fully utilize content of the HathiTrust Library while preventing intellectual property misuse within the confines of current U.S. copyright law.

Quick Links

HTRC Portal [1] - The landing page for the Research Center's algorithms and web-based tools
HTRC Documentation [2] - Documentation for HTRC services, including technical help, and tutorials.
Contact Us: htrc-help@hathitrust.org [3].

Get Involved

htrc-announce-l @ list.indiana.edu [4] General announcements about HTRC workshops, updates, new tools, and larger community issues.
htrc-usergroup-l @ list.indiana.edu [5] Submit recommendations, development issues, technical discussion about HTRC.
htrc-uncamp-l @ list.indiana.edu [6] Logistics and Announcements specific to HTRC UnCamp.