Alumni

What can you access?

The Collection is held across two campuses, at Penryn and Falmouth, and includes books, journals and special collections and archives. As a member of the library service you have access to both campuses

Penryn campus holds resources covering the following subjects

Falmouth Campus Library holds resources covering the following subjects

All registered users can

• Borrow 10 book or CD loans at any one time.

• Access the Library Search gives a full list of titles available, and where they are held.

• Use photocopiers available within each library. Copy cards can be loaded with money at autoloader machines. Cards are available from library staff

• Borrow items from other libraries as part of the interlibrary loan scheme. Full British Library costs will be charged

• Gain access to the Archives and Special Collections

• Make use of the Walk-in Users access scheme to use electronic resources in line resource licencing

How you can gain access

Initial access to the libraries should be made by appointment. this helps us to ensure that there will be someone available to talk you through the registration process, and show you the collections

Additional Library resources

Our Archives & Special Collections are open to the public by appointment

RefWorks – if you have an account for this reference management tool you can continue using it beyond graduation – this may help with any practice-based or written projects you might be working on in the future. 

Remember the Study Hub – it may be useful to look at the resources about presentations, groupwork, or nurturing a positive digital identity for future employment.

Want more? 

Become a member of your public library to access a range of resources e.g. audiobooks, ebooks, magazines, newspapers, Naxos music library… 

And 10 million academic articles via their initiative Access to Research

Open Access Resources

There are a number that are freely available – here are some examples: 

Access to Research gives free, walk-in access to over 10 million academic articles in participating public libraries across the UK. See if your Library is participating here 

Archives Hub is a national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. Fully searchable 

 

CORE is the world’s largest aggregator of open access content with millions of full texts, deriving from thousands of repositories, journals and other web resources

 

EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses 

Directory of Open Access Books. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals 

Education-line. A collection of free full text documents which are relevant to the study, practice and administration of education

Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives

HighWire is an internet hosting service in the United States specialising in academic and scholarly publications

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 477 billion archived web pages 

The Open Library of Humanities is a nonprofit, open-access publisher for the humanities and social sciences