The Hathitrust Research Center enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to published works in the public domain stored within <a href="http://www.hathitrust.org/">HathiTrust</a>, an extensive collaborative digital library of more than 8 million volumes and 2 billion pages of archived material maintained by major research institutions and libraries worldwide.
The HathiTrust Research Center website was designed by <a href="http://terkhorn.com">Felix Terkhorn</a> of Indiana University, and features some preliminary demonstrations including an <a href="http://hathitrust-research.org/article/author-and-title-search">autocompleting search over a small number of volumes in the collection</a>.