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HathiTrust Access

University of Alberta students, faculty, and staff can now access the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) that provides temporary access to 1.8 million in-copyright titles that match University of Alberta's print holdings. This is in addition to the 4.4 million public domain works that are normally accessible through University of Alberta Library’s membership with HathiTrust. This means approximately 30% of our print holdings are accessible through this service. This collection is only available while our physical libraries are closed.

Quick Tips

Tutorial

Finding & Searching:

• You can access these books through Library’s Search box on library’s homepage, or https://search.library.ualberta.ca;
  • HathiTrust books will display a "Access Fulltext Through HathiTrust" button. A pop-up window with the Terms of Use will be displayed before you can proceed to access the item.
    
• You can also access these books directly through HathiTrust’s search interface https://www.hathitrust.org/
  • Click on the yellow “Log In” button on the page.
  • Select “University of Alberta” from the list of partner institutions, and login using your CCID.

Reading & Using:

• When viewed within HathiTrust, books now available through the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS), have the label “Temporary Access;”.
  • “Temporary Access” books can be read only online.
  • You can check out a book for 1 hour. Your access will renew automatically at the end of that hour, unless another user requests the book after that hour is over.
  • Books marked “Limited (search-only)” are restricted and you cannot access them.
• You can also access other books that are part of our usual access to HathiTrust - these are marked “Full View.”
• For terms of service, please review Canadian institutions participating in HathiTrust’s Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS)

Accessibility:

HathiTrust provides the Accessible Text Request Service, which is designed specifically to permit access to copyrighted items for users with print disabilities. Please see the library's Accessibility Instructions for Specific Library Resources for more information.

Description

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. University of Alberta faculty, staff, and students are able to access full-text material that is in the public domain (as determined by the Hathi Trust) or copyright cleared. This includes primarily books and materials published in the US prior to 1923 and those published outside of the US prior to 1873. The archive also includes a large collection of US government documents. Abstracts are available for more current documents. The archive is updated regularly.

Additional Information

Select "Full view" in your search results to access full text materials. Otherwise, search results will include all materials currently in the archive, regardless of access permissions.

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Conditions

Access and Use policies are available here.