UCLA Textbook Store

The UCLA Textbook Store is open and fulfilling all course material orders from students:

• Textbook and course readers can be found here.

• UCLA Course Reader solutions offers faculty assistance with scanning and creation of accessible documents: readers@asucla.ucla.edu

• The UCLA Store is well stocked & prepared for classes. Over 50% of textbooks have eBook versions available and 100% of UCLA Store course readers are available digitally.

UCLA Library

The UCLA Library*:

• HathiTrust, a collection of digitized books, has given the UCLA community expanded access to millions of volumes of digitized UC-held materials via the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS).

• Pilot Emergency Temporary Lending Services: PETDOR & PETDOR + Mail

  • • Pilot Emergency Temporary Digitization on Request (PETDOR) & PETDOR + Mail services are for the exclusive personal, educational, and private research of UCLA faculty, graduate students, and researchers. PETDOR provides copies of articles and book chapters held in print collections in UCLA libraries. PETDOR + Mail loans send UCLA Library books to U.S. addresses (PO Boxes are not accepted).

    • More instructions on how to utilize this service can be found here.

• Reach out to a subject librarian to set up an instructional consultation. Subject librarians can help you identify electronic copies of texts for course reserves, incorporate library research and writing tools, integrate open educational resources (OER) into your courses, and other services. Meanwhile, library staff are currently working to develop a toolkit for the fall quarter with additional remote resources and workshops. For more updated on COVID-19 Library resources, check this page.

• Library subscription also allows you to access streaming digital content. A comprehensive list of streaming content can be found here.

• Calendar of Remote Research Support and Workshops

• Access e-books and articles

• Request technology and equipment

*Please note that off-campus access to UCLA Library’s licensed resources requires connecting via the VPN/Proxy Server.

OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES

• Redshelf, Thrift Books, Better World Books, and Bookshop. Besides the many resources made available through the UCLA Library, here are some alternatives to Amazon that you may utilize to find your course materials.

• Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. (NEW)