The Hathi Trust Research Center offers Scholars a Sneak Preview of Research Tools! | UVA Library News and Announcements

"The Hathi Trust Research Center (HTRC) is working to promote one of the hottest areas of literary research. Text-mining and non-consumptive research refer to a type of literary analysis in which the close reading of text is irrelevant. The important thing is the frequency of certain words. Scholars will of course continue to find meaning in literary texts, but studying the frequency and patterns of words published in thousands of books over time is opening new avenues to understanding literature."