HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service

Due to the suspension of access to physical collections at many libraries, HathiTrust developed the ETAS (Emergency Temporary Access Service) to provide online access to titles within the HathiTrust collection which are in copyright. As a Partner Institution, the University of Delaware Library is able to provide access to those books for which the UD Library owns a print copy. For UD, that is more than 500,000 items.

These books are fully searchable in DELCAT Discovery - by author, title, subject, keyword - with links which connect to the full-text item in HathiTrust.

NOTE: This service is available only to current UD faculty, students and staff.

To take advantage of this service:

• Search DELCAT Discovery for the book you are interested in and click on the View eBook link to get to HathiTrust.
• Log in using your UDelNet credentials.
• Click on the Check Out link in the orange bar to read the item through ETAS.
• You will have 60 minutes of access to the book during any session. If you remain active in the book during any session, access time will be extended. You may only read it online. Printing and downloading are not available. This is to protect the author’s rights.

Additional information is available at: ETAS: Information for Users. Included at this site are Highlights of the Service and Frequently Asked Questions.

• The Emergency Temporary Access Service is being offered to U.S.-based HathiTrust members as a fair use authorized by the U.S. Copyright Code.
• The Emergency Temporary Access Service is for HathiTrust member libraries located in the U.S. that have suffered an unexpected or involuntary disruption to normal operations where the library is closed to the public, or there are otherwise restricted print collection access services.
• Current Students, faculty, and staff at the affected HathiTrust member institutions will, upon logging in to HathiTrust, have access to titles that their library owns.