Digital Library

From the Bruin: UCLA Library has partnered with a large digital library to provide students and faculty with online access to more than 40% of the materials held in its collections. HathiTrust is an association of academic and research libraries that preserves materials in a digital library. During the COVID-19 pandemic, HathiTrust has provided member universities, including UCLA, with temporary online reading access to materials that currently cannot be accessed in person. Students and faculty will have access to these resources as long as the libraries are closed.

“We intend to expand fair use access to our corpus to ensure that the academic communities of our members can continue teaching and learning with HathiTrust resources if physical access to print collections is compromised during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said HathiTrust executive director Mike Furlough in a statement posted online.

Through HathiTrust, millions of printed books in the University of California libraries are temporarily available in digital form to any students, faculty or staff who need to access them, said Alison Scott, associate university librarian for collection management and scholarly communication at UCLA.

To access the digitized materials, UCLA students and faculty can log in to the HathiTrust Digital Library website and enter their campus information...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2020/04/17/ucla-library-continues-work-to-increase-digital-accessibility-with-new-partnership/