HathiTrust.org Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS)
Millions of digitized books available through HathiTrust which are also in UC libraries’ collections are now available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Use your UC credentials to login to the HathiTrust Digital Library, and then check-out in copyright books for online reading access for renewable one-hour loans. You can also still, as before, read and download public domain books at will.
An initial analysis from HathiTrust indicates that we will be able to provide electronic access to about 47% of our physical collection through this service. We expect to be able to provide access to all of HathiTrust’s digitized copies of UC systemwide holdings, including materials from the NRLF and SRLF. However, it may take some time before all of this material is available for our users. Also, please note that access to in-copyright content is just a temporary measure available to HathiTrust member libraries where a) access to physical library collections is suddenly no longer available; b) member libraries are able to restrict/authenticate access to their current users. This is not a long-term permanent service and our eligibility will end when we are able to again provide access to physical materials.
