Want to learn more about HTRC? This video gives an overview of the research center.
To get started, go to the HathiTrust Research Center website and click the “Sign Up” button in the upper right hand corner of the page. To access much of the functionality, you will need to create an account using your university email address and a password of your choosing.
You can find directions and step-by-step tutorials for using the HTRC on the Research Center's documentation: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/CAAb
There are off-the-shelf algorithms built into the HTRC that you can use for basic text analysis processes, such as topic modeling or making a word cloud. Learn more on the HTRC documentation wiki: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/HoJnAQ
This visualization tool lets you explore word frequency over time. You can read more information in this guide: http://guides.library.illinois.edu/htbookworm or on the HTRC documentation wiki: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/AoCXAQ
The HTRC releases datasets for text analysis, such as the Extracted Features dataset, which includes words, word counts, and page-level metadata for volumes in the HathiTrust. Learn more here: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/WQCGAQ
Researchers can provision their own secure virtual machine "capsule" for performing their own, advanced text analysis workflows. Results are vetted before they are released to the researcher. Documentation is available here: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/SAFRAQ