Q. What library resources can I access after I graduate?

Can I use library resources after I graduate?  

Yes, as Millersville University is a public institution, you can visit the library building and use library electronic resources on designated public computers in person, on campus. As an alumnus/a, you cannot check out books unless you happen to be eligible to be a community patron. Your off-campus access to the library databases will end after graduation as the license agreements with database vendors limit the off-campus access to current students, faculty and staff. For more information, please refer to Borrowing and Renewal policies.

What else can you do in addition to coming to campus to use the academic library? 

• Visit your local public library.  

Many public libraries offer remote access to databases, eBooks, and trade publications to library card holders. You may be able to request materials owned by large research libraries through the public library's interlibrary loan system.  

• Obtain online library cards for PA residents: 

  • POWER Library, the online 24/7 service from the PA Department of Education, offers access to newspapers, magazines, journals, historical documents, photos, online databases, and eBooks. Most of the site is open for browsing but to use the online e-resources you will need a public library card or obtain an E-Card to access online resources.

  • Free Library of Philadelphia, by obtaining a free library card, you can access electronic resources, eBooks, audiobooks, streaming videos, music and more.

• Use Open Access Resources 

These are online resources (e.g., articles, journals, books) that are freely available on the internet without financial or technical restrictions 

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) an index of diverse journals and articles from around the world  

• Google Scholar  a specialized search engine that locates primarily academic journal articles, Google books, institutional repositories and .edu sites, .gov sites 

• SocArXiv a repository of multidisciplinary articles made available by authors (often referred to as pre-print, post-print, or author accepted) 

• PsyArXiv a free preprint service for psychological sciences  

• PubMed a federally supported database of biomedical literature 

• ERIC a federally supported database of education-related articles 

• arXiv a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, systems science, economics, and more. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv 

• Internet Archive  a library of millions of books, music, websites and more 

• DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books. 

• Discover.gov  one-stop searching across the federal government’s many databases, retrieving official documents produced by the three branches of the U.S. government, including federal agencies. 

• USA.gov  a directory of websites, forms, and government services.