Alumni library services , Te ratonga raukura ā-whare pukapuka

Find out how to use the Library as a Massey graduate. Get help using your Alumni Basic or Alumni Plus membership.

Note

Alumni members who joined before 19 February 2024 now have an Alumni Plus account until their memberships expire.

Find out how to sign up for or renew a library Alumni Basic or Plus membership

Using your Alumni Basic account

First time logging in

Once you’ve signed up for an Alumni Basic membership, you need to log in to change your password. To do this, follow the instructions the library emailed to you when you signed up, or read about logging in and get help and troubleshooting tips.

Discover for Alumni Basic

Now that you have your Alumni Basic username and password, you can use Discover for Alumni Basic to:

  • access your library account to view your requests, loans, and due dates
  • search for print books to pick up at your campus library
  • request print books to be waiting for you to pick up at your campus library.

Note that Discover search boxes elsewhere on the website don’t work for Alumni Basic members – you must use this link. We suggest you bookmark this page once you arrive.

Search Discover for Alumni Basic

Using your Alumni Plus account

First time logging in

Once you’ve signed up for an Alumni Plus membership, you need to log in to change your password. To do this, follow the instructions the library emailed to you when you signed up, or read about logging in and get help and troubleshooting tips.

Discover for Alumni Plus

Now that you have your Alumni Plus username and password, you can use Discover for Alumni Plus to:

  • view your library account to see your requests, loans, and due dates
  • search for and request print books to pick up at your campus library, or have them delivered to your home
  • access full text of selected online databases, journals, ebooks, and reference resources.

You don’t have access to all of the online journals, ebooks, and databases you had as an enrolled student. Access is determined by publisher licences.

Note that Discover search boxes elsewhere on the website don’t work for Alumni Plus members – you must use this link. We suggest you bookmark this page once you arrive.

Search Discover for Alumni Plus

Article databases, ebooks and reference resources for Alumni Plus

Instead of using Discover, you can also search article databases, ebooks, and reference resources individually.

See what’s available to you by topic below.

Art and design

Art, Design & Architecture Complete – full-text database featuring current publications in visual and applied arts

ARTbibliographies Modern – ProQuest database covering all art disciplines

Design and Applied Arts Index – ProQuest database covering all design disciplines, including craft

International Bibliography of Art – ProQuest bibliographic database on scholarly literature about western art

JSTOR – Includes over 2 million quality images of art works and cultural objects. Strong historical focus, but includes extensive collections contemporary architecture and art

Vogue Archive – searchable full text of Vogue (US edition) from 1892 to the present

Business

Business Source Alumni – full-text database featuring content from over 3,000 academic journals, trade publications and magazines

OECD iLibrary – full-text database featuring OECD Factbooks, country economic outlooks and trade reports

Computer science

ACM Digital Library – full-text database containing all publications from the Association for Computing Machinery

ACM Guide to Computing Literature – database of computer science literature

IGI Global Reference Research Collection – full-text database of reference materials in all areas of computer science and information technology

Ebook collections

Early English Books Online (EEBO) – full-text collection of over 125,000 print documents published from 1400-1700

Sage Knowledge Online Book Collection – full-text collection of over 2,400 multidisciplinary ebooks and online handbooks with a strong social science focus

Environmental sciences

Environmental Encyclopedia – full-text reference resource covering environmental science, ecology and earth sciences

GeoRef – ProQuest database of geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses

Linguistics and language

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts – ProQuest database of international literature in linguistics and language sciences

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Alumni – full-text collection of over 2,000 academic journals from all disciplines

Annual Reviews – full-text collection of journals summarising progress in the biomedical, physical and social sciences

Duke University Press – full-text collection of journals with an emphasis on the arts and social sciences

JSTOR – full-text archival content of thousands of journals

Project Muse – full-text articles from over 300 scholarly journals in history, social sciences and sciences

Sage Journals Online – full-text journals in health sciences, life and biomedical sciences, materials science and engineering, and social sciences and humanities

Times Digital Archive 1785-2014 – full-text archive of every page published by the Times (London) from 1785-2014

Wiley Online Library – full-text scholarly journals covering a wide range of subject areas

Research methods

Sage Research Methods Online – full-text research tool to help researchers and graduate students

Science and veterinary science

American Physiological Society – full-text journal articles published by the American Physiological Society

BioOne – full-text collection of over 150 publications in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences

Cochrane Library – full-text database for evidence-based medical decision-making

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography – full-text reference work of scientists from antiquity to modern times

CSIRO – full-text journals covering the sciences, with an emphasis on Australian content

Wiley Online Library – full-text scholarly journals in biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine and animal sciences

Social science

Dictionary of American History – full-text reference resource covering a wide range of topics in American history

Early English Books Online (EEBO) – full-text collection of over 125,000 print documents published from 1400-1700

Eighteenth Century Collections Online Text Creation Partnership (ECCO-TCP) – full-text database of over 180,000 titles published during the 18th century

First World War – full-text collection of diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, photographs, and secondary resources from the First World War

Popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 – full-text database of original archival materials about student protests, civil rights, consumerism, rock and roll, counterculture and the Vietnam War

Social Services Abstracts – ProQuest database of research focused on social work, human services and related areas

Sociological Abstracts – ProQuest database of literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences

Sports

Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine – full-text encyclopaedia covering all aspects of sports medicine

Theses

Dissertations and Theses – ProQuest database of over two million dissertation and thesis abstracts and reviews from North America, the UK and Ireland, dating as far back as 1716

Alumni membership terms & conditions

View the terms and conditions for alumni library memberships.

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