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eBook Details

Quick facts on downloading, printing, and annotating ebooks from WUSTL collections and platforms.

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You will see these icons throughout the guide to note app availability for different mobile device platforms:

= Apple, iPhone, and iPad
= Android
= Windows Mobile
= Blackberry
= Internet source (available to all devices with a web browser)

HathiTrust

  • Users: Unlimited concurrent users.
  • Printing limits: PDF viewer-dependent. Users affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions are able to print books in the public domain in their entirety.
  • Downloading: Users affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions are able to download full-PDFs of all public domain works, and works made available under Creative Commons licenses. Click here for directions. Users who are not affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions can download single-page PDFs of all public domain works, full-PDFs of works made available under Creative Commons licenses, and full-PDFs of public domain works that are not subject to third-party agreements. There is significant overlap of volumes in HathiTrust and Google Book Search and if a book is "full view" in HathiTrust, it is possible that a PDF of the entire book can be downloaded from Google Book Search. Note that logging in through a Friend account does not enable full-PDF download of Google-digitized materials.
  • Notes/Annotation: Not available at this time.