Students, Faculty, and staff registered with their institution’s disability resource center (or institutional equivalent) may obtain ADA-compliant PDF files of any materials in the State University System (SUS) library holdings that are also available in HathiTrust.
Please note: Files cannot be supplied to any student, faculty, staff, or other patrons without first verifying that they are registered with their institution’s disability resource center. This is part of our contract agreement with HathiTrust.
To determine if a book is in the SUS library system, and available for download from HathiTrust, follow the steps below. If you are unable to navigate the system and require assistance, please contact Kellie Sparks (ksparks@uwf.edu - evening contact 1pm until 9pm).
How to Locate Eligible ADA-Compliant Files from HathiTrust in the Florida SUS System
Students, Faculty, and staff registered with their institution’s disability resource center (or institutional equivalent) may obtain ADA-compliant PDF files of any materials in thet Hathi Trust listings.
Please note: Files cannot be supplied to any student, faculty, staff, or other patrons without first verifying that they are registered with their institution’s disability resource center. This is part of our contract agreement with HathiTrust.
1. Go to http:www.hathitrust.org (When doing this, the user must be using the computer with the static IP address supplied to Hathitrust by the library). Click on the Log-in button, and log in with your credentials.
2. When logged in, click on the Advanced full-text search link:
3. Enter the title (i.e. Wuthering Heights) in the first box and select title from the pulldown menu options; enter author (i.e. Emily Bronte) in the second box, and choose Author from the pulldown menu options:
4. Locate the appropriate title in the list of results, and click on the Full View link. If a book is a part of the SUS holdings and listed in HathiTrust, the University of West Florida's HathiTrust liaison can download and supply the PDF file.
To go to the online request form, go to https://secure.uwf.edu/
For further assistance, please email Kellie Sparks during afternoon/evening (ksparks@uwf.edu), or call 850-474-2424.