HathiTrust Alternatives

HathiTrust is described as 'Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized' and is an website in the news & books category. There are six alternatives to HathiTrust, not only websites but also apps for Android, iPhone, Android Tablet and iPad. The best HathiTrust alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to HathiTrust are WorldCat, Directory of Open Access Books, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine and Internet Archive Scholar.

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  1. Google Scholar icon
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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    32 Google Scholar alternatives

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    • Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to HathiTrust.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to HathiTrust.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryHathiTrust is also Free and Proprietary
  2. WorldCat icon
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    WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

    58 WorldCat alternatives

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    • WorldCat is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to HathiTrust.

    • WorldCat is Free and ProprietaryHathiTrust is also Free and Proprietary
  3. DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

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  4. BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

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  5. Shibata icon
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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 11th Largest Scientific Database

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