HathiTrust offers a great tool for building your own collections inside the digital library, allowing you to group items together for private research or public use. One of the biggest advantages of these collections is the ability to search the full-text of items within a specific collection allowing you to focus searches on subsets of HathiTrust materials.
To view collections that have been made public by other HathiTrust users, you do not need to be logged in. From the HathiTrust homepage click on the “View Public Collections” link, which will take you to a long list of public collections of HathiTrust materials. Each collection is available for browsing and full-text searches, however you cannot edit these collections.
Here is how you build your own collections:
The Haas Arts Library has put together several collections inside the HathiTrust Digital Library. These public collections only contain items that are owned by Yale University Libraries, and which are mostly full-view in HathiTrust. Consider these collections as a starting point for subject specific research.
NOTE: You will find that there are very few art & architecture items inside HathiTrust. There are two main reasons for this:
Haas Collections inside HathiTrust:
Yale Arts Library - Architecture
Yale Arts Library - Art History