Cornell University Library is pleased to provide Cornell alumni with several library services for their personal use. If you have questions about access to these resources, please use our Alumni Ask a Librarian form.
Cornell University Library does not currently offer alumni access to the Libby ebook service. Most public libraries offer access to ebooks and audio books, and we strongly encourage you to visit and support your local public libraries. Any individual who lives, works, attends school, or pays property taxes in New York state can get a library card to borrow ebooks through the Brooklyn Public Library or the New York Public Library.
As of January 2026, Cornell University Library no longer provides alumni access to JSTOR resources. Any individual can get free limited access to JSTOR through a personal account, which allows one to read up to 100 articles every 30 days for free. Those with Brooklyn Public Library or New York Public Library cards, as described above, can also access most JSTOR content.
Academic Search™ Alumni Edition
Academic Search™ Alumni Edition is designed for the continuing education needs of post-college professionals.
Adam Matthew Digital
Adam Matthew publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world. The Archive Explorer will help you search the collections available to Cornell University Library.
AGRICOLA
Produced by the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) contains bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions in agricultural and related sciences.
Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library provides integrated text and image content about world dress and fashion throughout history, including the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, e-books, e-journals, a museum directory, reference works, images, and more.
Business Source® Alumni Edition
Business Source® Alumni Edition includes full-text sources ranging from general periodicals to trade publications, including country economic reports, industry reports, market research reports, and company profiles.
Cambridge Histories Online
Provides full text online access to the complete 300-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects.
Cornell Alumni Magazine (2001-present)
Cornell Alumni Magazine (2001-present)
This collection contains the oldest published issues of the Cornell Alumni Magazine, from Vol. 104 (2001/02) through Vol. 109 (2006/07). Additional issues are also available.
Cornell University History: A Research Guide
The object of this research guide is to bring together resources available for researching questions about the history of Cornell.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals contains categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Duke University Press
About 50 e-journals in the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections, primarily in arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. Cornell University Library is a member. Alumni are welcome to access resources in the public view, but there is no alumni login.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, music, as well as 150 billion archived webpages. The Cornell University Library has contributed many volumes to this collection.
MedlinePlus
Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, MedlinePlus presents up-to-date health care information, selected by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, for use by health care consumers and health professionals.
Mergent Archives
Mergent Archives is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. Mergent Archives contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
PubMed
Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. PubMed provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
PubMed Central
The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to the full text of articles in PubMed Central is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles.
Sage Journals
Access to full text of Sage Journals licensed by Cornell University Library, providing a searchable database for abstracts and table of contents of all Sage published journals.
Sage Knowledge (ebooks and reference)
Sage Knowledge is a database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education.
Sports Market Analytics
Sports Market Analytics provides searchable news and market research from the National Sporting Goods Association and other industry sources on all aspects of sporting goods, sports equipment, participation, demographics, fan profiles, sports finance, sponsorship, broadcasting, media, and marketing.
Visual History Archive (VHA)
Created by USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education the Visual History Archive (VHA) contains some 53,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide recorded in 58 countries and in 34 languages since 1994.
WorldCat.org
WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.