“Temporary access” books are made available through the Emergency Temporary Access Service. Your university must be a HathiTrust member, and your library must work with HathiTrust to make this service available to you. Learn more on our Emergency Temporary Access Service page.
\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions
To read a “temporary access” book, follow these steps:
Log into HathiTrust with your university account.
Search for or navigate to the “temporary access” book you are interested in reading.
If the book is available to you to read, an information bar will appear on the screen that contains the text, "Access to this work is provided through the Emergency Temporary Access Service."
A "Check Out" button also appears within the information banner.
Click on the “Check Out” button to read the book.
The book will be available to you for an hour at minimum. It may automatically renew at the end of that hour if you are still actively reading the book at that time.