Sarah McClung
Sarah is the Head of Collection Development at the UCSF Library. Contact Sarah with questions about library subscriptions and collections purchases.

Emergency Temporary Access to Copyrighted Books

Update August 2021: ETAS access is being deactivated

The HathiTrust.org Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) has opened up copyrighted material in the HathiTrust digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. UC students, faculty, and staff can now access 13 million digitized books through HathiTrust, the vast majority of which were published before 2005. Use your UCSF 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.

To take advantage of this temporary expanded access:

  1. Visit HathiTrust.org and click the yellow “LOG IN” button.
  2. Select “University of California, San Francisco” and log in using your MyAccess credentials.
  3. Search the HathiTrust digital library to locate the item you wish to view.
  4. Click on the Temporary Access link at the bottom of the record to Check Out the item through the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS).

You will have 60 minutes of access to an in-copyright book during the session. If you remain active in the book during the session, access time will be extended. This access model is intended to address the unique access needs of this moment while still protecting the author’s rights.

It is important to note that this is a temporary service. Emergency access will end when regular access to UC library’s physical collection is restored.