How to join the library
Email the Deakin Alumni Relations Office and update your contact details.
Please note: library memberships will need to be renewed every 12 months.
Borrowing books and plenty more
After joining the library you can:
- borrow up to 10 items for up to 21 days, and renew once if no-one else has requested them
- visit any campus library with your library card
- request unavailable books online for pickup on campus
- order online for home delivery if you've paid for the service (12 month delivery service for $460)
- access microfilm/microfiche, newspapers, hardcopy journals, reference material and more
- use selected e-resources, including online databases and journals – see list of alumni e-resources below
- use the photocopiers for a small charge (photocopying only)
- take advantage of specialist help from library staff for research.
Please note: you won’t be able to access two hour, one day or seven day loans, inter-library loans, off-air recordings, course material, DVDs, videos or e-books.
Alumni e-resources
From anthropology to zoology, find what you need from our huge range of online journals and databases.
Historical and international
19th Century British Library Newspapers
19th Century UK Periodicals
Artemis Primary Sources
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Law
First World War: Visual Perspectives and Narratives
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842–2003
Making of Modern Law Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600–1926
Making of modern law: Historic trials 1600–1925
Making of modern law: Legal treatises 1800–1926
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange Archive
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790–1840: The Corvey Collection
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography: The World Through the Lens
Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894–1945
Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945–1950
Testaments to the Holocaust: Digital archive
Women war and society 1914–1918 digital archive
Newspapers and periodicals
Economist Historical Archive
Financial Times historical archive 1888–2010
MIT Press Journals
National Geographic 1995–current
New York Review of Books
NewsVault
Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822–2006
Times digital archive
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902–2009
Communications and arts
Arts Hub
Beamafilm
Communication studies: a SAGE full-text collection
ConnectWeb
Directory of Australian Associations
Drama Online
Education – SAGE
Literature Resource Center
Margaret Gee's Australian media guide
Project Muse
Project Muse Books Online
Project Muse Individual eBooks
Who's Who in Australia
Who's Who in Business in Australia
Who's Who of Australian Women
Social science and health
Criminology: a SAGE full-text collection
Health Reference Center Academic
Health Reference Center Academic: Reference Titles
OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary Ebooks
OECD iLibrary Journals
OECD iLibrary Statistics
Political science: a SAGE full-text collection
Psychology: a SAGE full-text collection
Sociology: a SAGE full-text collection
LegalTRAC
Business and computing
Business & Company ASAP
Computer Database
Emerald Alumni
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
Science and engineering
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
CSH Protocols
IMechE journals collection
Making of the Modern World