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Just like the Hindi word for the elephant its name implies, HathiTrust<\/a><\/u> is enormous and it never forgets.\u00a0 With over 16 million digitized texts, HathiTrust is a vast archive of digitized materials for research and scholarship of all types. \u00a0It was created in 2008 as a partnership of major research libraries<\/a><\/u> working together to preserve and make available the published record of human knowledge from around the world and in a wide variety of languages and scripts. It includes both public domain, open access and copyright materials digitized by Google, the Internet Archive and Microsoft, as well as those digitized by member libraries in-house efforts, including Boston College.\u00a0\u00a0 Copyright materials included are made available in full-text to the users at the contributing institution.<\/p>\n Discover useful materials by bibliographic (title-level) or full-text document searching (see Search Tips<\/a><\/u>).\u00a0 In addition to the non-English language materials available for discovery, you can also search using such non-Western scripts as Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more (BC has made a particular effort to contribute Irish script content).\u00a0 Once you find what you need, read materials online or sign in as a member of the Boston College community to download entire works available for full viewing;\u00a0 without sign-in, download may be limited to a page at a time.<\/p>\n While all works found in HathiTrust are available for discovery, full viewing is restricted to open access works created under a Creative Commons license, items in the public domain (U.S. works published before 1923 and government documents), Australian or Canadian works prior to 1898 (see Copyright<\/a><\/u> for published materials from other countries) or materials contributed by Boston College Libraries.\u00a0 (FYI, Boston College Libraries staff are involved in a national, systematic effort by libraries to update public domain status on materials included in HathiTrust.)\u00a0 Boston College users with print disabilities can get access to full-print materials still in copyright.<\/p>\n As you find materials, consider grouping them into your own collections.\u00a0 Once you create a collection for future reference, you can search within it and share your collections with others by making them public.<\/p>\n