With the move to online courses this spring, we have many newly acquired and trial databases available for personal or academic pursuits, including Academic Video Online (both Alexander Street Press and ProQuest platforms). Both of these databases provide access to tens of thousands of videos across multiple disciplines as well as award-winning films and content from PBS, BBC, 60 Minutes, National Geographic, and more.

For the complete list of all our new and trial databases, visit our Databases page and look at the bottom right-hand side column. Please note: Our database subscriptions are only available to current CWU students, faculty, and staff. Log-in with your CWU credentials to access from off-campus.

The HathiTrust (pronounced 'hah-tee') houses a collection of over 15 million volumes of searchable books, journals, and government documents, including 5.8 million available as full text online.

HathiTrust is a partnership of over 100 libraries and research institutions that have come together to build and share a digital repository of print works.  Begun in 2008, the goal of the partnership is to build a comprehensive archive of published literature from around the world available in the public domain through a digital library. The HathiTrust has pursued this goal chiefly by digitizing materials like books and journals from major library collections and other partners, such as Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft. Central Washington University joined in 2020.

For more information, visit our HathiTrust guide, which offers information about how to log-in and how to check out ebooks.