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The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) facilitates non-profit and educational uses of the HathiTrust Digital Library by enabling computational analysis of works from its collection. HTRC provides services to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face in working with the HathiTrust Digital Library. In developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The center works at the cutting edge of text mining, and non-consumptive research, allowing scholars to fully utilize content of the HathiTrust Library while preventing intellectual property misuse within the confines of current U.S. copyright law. In addition to consulting, HathiTrust Research Center offers compute resources such as “data capsules” which are secure virtual machines in which users can analyze copyrighted full-text sources and analytics tools including web-based tools, scripts, and Jupyter Notebooks. Most services and resources are available to the worldwide scholarly community.