Grammars in the HathiTrust
QuickSearch Books+ can be accessed directly or via the main library web site. This set of instructions will walk you through locating grammars in the catalog.
For this example, we will look for grammars of the Seneca language by typing Seneca grammar into the search box, which is not case-sensitive. On the results page, we see Books+ on the left and Articles+ on the right.
Note that in the results, we are seeing both Seneca the language and Seneca the Roman philosopher/statesman. This is one of the reasons why examining results set and filtering (in this case, by subject) can be important to improve the results set.
Above is an example of what happens when we only view online results. Note that on the lefthand side, we can filter by publication date, how recently the item was added to the collection, language, location, and so on. There are also a few subject filters that we can use if we scroll.
Seneca word list and text: Notes was eighth on the results list. We are now viewing the record page, where we can click through to the online book. This record has a very long Notes field, and the reason it appeared in our search results is that the word grammar is used in the Notes. Searching All Fields (the default option) is very broad; limiting to something like Title or Subject in our search will limit the results.
Many books will also list tables of contents and other important information in the text on the record's lefthand side. Let's continue scrolling …
At the bottom of the metadata (information about the book), we see several subject terms. These are clickable, and we can find other items related to the book we are looking at when we click on them.
The second subject links us to three results, all from the Adam Matthew Digital collection.
Another way to search is to use the advanced search, located to the right of the blue search button and the search box.
If we wanted to toggle between viewing all and online-only resources, we can also do that above the search results.
We can construct a search using Boolean operators (see the tab on Boolean for more info) and limit the fields we are searching. Above, I'm looking for anything where grammar and Seneca are the subjects, and I am joining them with the AND operator. My search will return 8 results, many of them not about the language.
The first result is Chafe's A Grammar of the Seneca Language. This book is in print and available, so it gives us several important options for pickup and delivery, both electronically and physically. We can click on the subject term to see what we find.
Clicking on the subject term limits us to two results.
This tab will guide you through locating grammars in the HathiTrust via QuickSearch Books+, our library catalog. Most users, however, begin from the main library web site and use the QuickSearch box there.
When one begins at the main library web site and searches (here, for Catalan grammars), one first sees results from both Books+ and Articles+. In the Books+ column, note that we can already see a result from the HathiTrust in the first few results. Let's click on all of the results (not just the online ones!) at first to get a better idea of what we have.
If you've started searching from the main Books+ search box, or if you've clicked through to view all of the results from the QuickSearch combined results page, you will come to this screen next. The first result is from the HathiTrust, but the other results are from a variety of locations, like SML. The filters on the lefthand side will let us refine the results soon.
In the search done for this walkthrough, items 10-12 are all the same book, Max Wheeler's Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar. To explain what HathiTrust ETAS is, we will look at 10 and 12. 10 is from SML, and 12 is from the HathiTrust.
Please note that even without ETAS (Emergency Temporary Access Service), we do have access to some things in the HathiTrust: Public domain, digitized works and some additional titles. ETAS is activated when something prevents us from making use of our physical copies, like the pandemic.
When we click on Item 10, you can see what ETAS does. Print checkouts are deactivated for items in ETAS so we can ensure that we (a) comply with copyright law and (b) make every book as accessible as possible. For each print copy, we have one e-copy. Ergo, Item 10 will redirect us to visit the HathiTrust item. Click on Item 12 to check it out from the HathiTrust webpage. This box's second tab (see navigation) or the video to the right will show you what you need to click to check the book out at the HathiTrust.
We can filter to just see results from the HathiTrust using the Location filter. (I have already chosen to limit to online results only. If you haven't, you may see more locations here.)
With the filter for the HathiTrust selected, we can view just items from the HathiTrust. Note that if you did not want to see any results from the HathiTrust (AKA you want to limit to our non-Hathi Trust ebook providers), you could toggle IS/IS NOT in the small drop-down that appears within the filter to do that.
If you want to search the HathiTrust via the HathiTrust main search page, this provides some brief guidance before going into screenshots about checking things out using the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS).
To see everything, make sure that you are looking in the catalog records (as full text usually returns too many results) and that you have unchecked "full view only." This will show many items that we don't technically have access to, and this can be useful when thinking about what to request via interlibrary loan.
As a note, if you kept "full view only" checked, you would be shown the items in the HathiTrust that we have access to via both ETAS and our ordinary HathiTrust digital access. The books in the latter category may be downloaded and do not need to be checked out.
Once you are done, click Search HathiTrust.
The above screen shows what the search results look like when one is not logged in. The records here show that something is limited (search only), and another item requires one to view the record to see information about individual volumes in a series.
Once logged in, the search results change to indicate that some items are available via ETAS. Of course, among the results, there will also be some results asking you to visit the record to see the availability of a multi-part series, and other records are full-text access without restrictions.
Let's discuss how to access an ETAS title.
Clicking on the temporary access title leads to this screen. We have some metadata (information about the book) on the lefthand side, with a blank page with a search box in the middle. (Using the search box will show you which pages a term is described on, so even if something isn't accessible via ETAS, this can be helpful if you are trying to determine which pages to request via interlibrary loan.) Since this title is available for checkout, we can check out the title by clicking the button that says "Check Out" in the orange bar that indicates this is available through ETAS.
The title is now checked out for an hour. It will renew as long as we are actively looking at the book.
The above image shows what a record looks like as part of our ordinary HathiTrust access. This is a public domain work, and we have links to download it on the left-hand side because it is out of copyright.
For any item, once logged in, you can add the book to a collection to save it. Creating a collection means that you can come back to a specific set of books later without needing to repeat a search.
Here is a collection (one item), accessible via My Collections in the top menu bar once logged in.
Happy researching!