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How to Access E-Resources

All you need to know to get the most out of the e-resources that Hampshire and the Five Colleges have to offer!

How do I connect to e-resources?

So how do you connect to an e-resource? Let's say that I'm researching Frida Kahlo, and I've found this book:

Screenshot of Frida Kahlo e-book in Discover search results.

Good news! It's an FC e-resource, so that means that I, a member of Hampshire College, can look at it! What next?

Same screenshot from above, emphasizing the location of the link to click to access the resource.

By clicking on "Hampshire: Link to resource" (or in some cases "Five Colleges: Link to resource"), you will be redirected to a page where you can enter your Hampshire login information, and after that...

Screenshot of the home page of the Frida Kahlo e-book.

We made it to the e-resource! From here, you can choose to read the book online, download a chapter, or virtually check-out the book, like you would with any other library book. The options available to you will depend on the vendor's platform (in the example above, the vendor is ProQuest). Some our licenses allow unlimited downloading, or downloading of a limited number of chapters or total pages. The next tab explains these differences in more detail.