Prospector is pleased to announce that the public domain materials from HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org/about) have been added to the union catalog.  HathiTrust is a partnership between major research institutions and libraries to preserve the cultural record and make them available to future generations.  Prospector has loaded records for close to  one million public domain ebooks and they are accessible to all users of Prospector at no cost.  Users may read the ebooks online or download a single page at a time.

The HathiTrust titles will appear in the general results panel of any search done in Prospector although users may limit their search to these materials by selecting the HathiTrust facet on the new Prospector interface.  When a HathiTrust title is found just click on the link that says “Digital File” and you will be taken to the e-resource.

HathiTrust began a number of years ago when Google started digitizing major research collections of libraries in North America.  The primary community that Hathi Trust serves are faculty, students and users of the partner libraries. However, the open access content is available for anyone to access.