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Alumni & Associate Library Members: Open Access Resources

A guide to open access scholarly sources and search engines for University of Plymouth Alumni and Associate Library Members

Public Library access to eJournals

Public Libraries in the UK benefit from an agreement between the UK Government and Publishers to ensure that the general public can access tax-payer funded research in paywalled (subscription) journals free of charge. The caveat is that full-text access is only on computers within the public library buildings, however, you can use the online search before you visit a library to check which articles you will want to access.

The scheme is called Access to Research and provides walk-in access to over 30 million articles across all subjects within public libraries. Please note: for access to the full-text of articles, you will need to use a Public Library computer.

Public libraries offering Access to Research computers

Plymouth City Council Libraries participate in this scheme and many other libraries across the UK will also provide access: