The UT
Libraries’ membership in an international digital repository is yielding an
extra dividend in these troubled times. While UT classes remain online in
response to the COVID-19 emergency, HathiTrust will allow unprecedented access
to digital content preserved by the shared repository.
In addition to the UT Libraries’ already robust electronic collections, through our partnership with HathiTrust we will now be able to provide faculty, staff, and students with electronic access to 1,466,421 books for which UT Libraries owns a print version.
HathiTrust, a shared digital
repository for content contributed by major academic and research libraries,
announced its Emergency Temporary Access Service on March 30. The service makes it possible for member library patrons to obtain
lawful access to specific digital materials in HathiTrust that correspond to
physical books held by their own library.
UT students,
faculty, and staff will, upon logging-in to HathiTrust, have access to
copyrighted titles that the library owns and for which we have been able to
identify a match through our ongoing holdings analysis.
Users will be able to read the book online, in
the web browser, but will not be able to download the work in full.
Users may
“check out” a book for one hour. Access will renew automatically at the end of
the hour unless another user requests the book.
Books
available to UT users through the Emergency Temporary Access Service will be marked
“Temporary Access.” HathiTrust books marked “Full View” are freely and fully
available to UT users.
Visit HathiTrust at hathitrust.org. Click on the yellow “LOG IN” button to search for books that are accessible to UT users.