Alumni Services

eResources

Continue your research and enrich your mind with alumni access to an archive of online journals including JSTOR.

Get remote access to many library e-resources using Your University Login.  We are striving to increase e-resource access so check back regularly to see if there are new additions.

Alumni E-Resources A-Z list

Please note: DiscoverEd e-resource access is currently only available to current staff and students of the University. Your access to this will stop once you graduate.

JSTOR online journals

JSTOR is a rich archive of scholarly journals, covering a wide range of disciplines.

The University of Edinburgh has licence agreements for selected archival content and has made this available to alumni.

How to access

You can access the online journals through the Alumni Portal using Your University Login:

Login to JSTOR

If you do not have Your University Login, you will need to set up a new account to receive it:

Register for Your University Login

If you graduated before 2003 please contact the IS Helpline to set up your login credentials:

Further information

Alumni can access almost 1,800 titles in the archival collections
Once you are logged in it is possible to access the full text of articles from the relevant journals.
You can search by journal title, by subject, or search for a particular article
Your results will include material that is not covered by the agreement, but it is quite straightforward to identify the articles or journals that are available to alumni of the University.