hathitrust.org
HathiTrust Digital Library
Who runs HathiTrust Digital Library, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
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- Online since
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- Trackers
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- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Internet Archive
Measured from HathiTrust Digital Library’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit HathiTrust Digital Library01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library hathitrust.org
Wikidata: digital library
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What HathiTrust Digital Library tracks
We couldn’t read hathitrust.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to HathiTrust Digital Library
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to HathiTrust Digital Library, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read hathitrust.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 02
American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.
Very close - 03
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
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Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 05
Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana
Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions
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Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
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WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
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Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
Close - 13 SciELO scielo.org
bibliographic database of open access journals
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database of biomedical research
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curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
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Brazil
digital library
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Zenodo
research data repository
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OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
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OpenStax
OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!
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Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles HathiTrust Digital Library’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones HathiTrust Digital Library uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what HathiTrust Digital Library adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to HathiTrust Digital Library’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ae617a37fcbb-HAM
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.atlassian.net include:_spf.mail.umich.edu include…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=WtHDwMoCLEMmsRU23UKev1gAKJv6KCFhC_b7cVuGNls
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on hathitrust.org 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on hathitrust.org 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on hathitrust.org 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on hathitrust.org 6/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- nginx · not on hathitrust.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on hathitrust.org 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on hathitrust.org 3/20
- Salesforce · not on hathitrust.org 2/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on hathitrust.org 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on hathitrust.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on hathitrust.org 2/20
- Bootstrap · not on hathitrust.org 2/20
- jsDelivr · not on hathitrust.org 2/20