Alumni, Retirees, and Visitors

  2. Using the Library
  3. Alumni, Retirees, Visiting Scholars, & Community Members

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8am - 10pm - All service hours

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Alumni

As a U of G alumni, you have access to: 

  • A collection of online resources
    • To access these, you need to register with us. You need to renew your account every three years.
  • The library’s full physical collection
    • To borrow from the print collection, visit the Ask Us Desk to request an alumni borrower card. Once you receive your card, you can request U of G items through Omni. 

View our Alumni Borrowing Policy for details about your borrowing privileges. 

Retirees

  • Your University of Guelph or University of Guelph-Humber ID is your library card.
  • Faculty members/librarians with emeritus status will retain the same access you have always had
  • Retirees who opt to retain their U of G email address maintain their affiliation with the University of Guelph and therefore retain their library privileges with the same rights and responsibilities they had as employees.

Please see our retirees borrowing policies for details on your borrowing privileges.

Visiting Scholars

  • As a visiting scholar, with a valid U of G or U of G-Humber ID, you have full access to our online catalogue and our physical collection.

View our Visiting Scholars Borrowing Policies for details about your borrowing privileges. 

Community members

  • As a community member, you can register for a free community member card at the Ask Us Desk.
  • You must renew your card on an annual basis.
  • Your card lets you borrow books from the library.
  • You may also access a range of open access resources—find more information about them below. 

View our Community Borrowing Policy for details about your borrowing privileges. 

Open Access Resources

Open access (OA) research outputs, like academic articles, are freely available to everyone. At the library, we’re committed to OA and invest in open initiatives by allocating a part of our acquisitions budget to support open content and infrastructure. 

You can access OA research and scholarship through sites like these: 

  • Unpaywall: a browser extension that will search for free, legal versions of articles 
  • PubMed Central: a free, full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journals from the U.S. National Institutes of Health Library and the National Library of Medicine.

Questions? 

If you have questions about your account, contact us.  

The library is committed to ensuring that members of our user community with disabilities have equal access to our services and resources and that their dignity and independence is always respected. If you encounter a barrier and/or need an alternate format, please fill out our Library Print and Multimedia Alternate-Format Request Form. Contact us if you’d like to provide feedback: lib.a11y@uoguelph.ca
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