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

Get Involved

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

Learn More About

• Governance
• Architecture and Organization
• Access and Use
• Timeline and Deliverables
• Partnering in Research
• Collections and Tools
• Non-Consumptive Use Policy

News and Updates

• Big (and Open) Data for Scholarship of All Sizes: A New Release of the HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features Dataset
• Data to Insight Center to Host "Data Quality in Era of Big Data" Workshop
• HathiTrust Research Center Awards Four ACS Projects
• Job Vacancy: Postdoctoral Fellow, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University
• ACS Request for Proposals: Spring 2016
• HathiTrust Research Center Awards Three ACS Projects
• HTRC Services v3.0 in Beta Test through Jan 30 2015
• RFP: Advanced Collaborative Support for the HathiTrust Research Center
• Save the date! HTRC UnCamp, March 30-31, 2015
• HathiTrust Research Center Seeks a Manager of Operations and Lead R&D Architect
• HathiTrust Research Center Awarded Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities
• HTRC Alpha Release of Extracted Features Dataset
• HathiTrust Research Center Awards Four Prototyping Project Grants
• RFP: Prototyping Projects for the HathiTrust Research Center
• Citizen Journalism at HTRC UnCamp 2013
• HathiTrust Research Center Focus Groups at JCDL 2013
• Save the date! HTRC UnCamp, September 8-9, 2013
• New tools available to mine world's largest digital repository of books
• HathiTrust Research Center Postdoctoral Research Associate
• HathiTrust Research Center Video

More News and Updates

Papers and Presentations

Conferences and Meetings