WELCOME ALUMNI
All alumni will be submitting new registration forms. Click here to get started. We hope to see you soon!
Check out our hours here and feel free to call the Resource Desk at (757) 352-4150 for more information.
Make sure to log in to the library system with Primo, our new log in page & search tool (with your new registration and username completed). Use the 'Held by library in print' and 'Open Access' filters in the left sidebar to see physical items you can check out and electronic items available to everyone.
Local Alumni
A Regent University Library alumni card may be obtained by completing an Alumni Registration Form online or at the Resource Desk. Processing may take up to five (5) business days for verification and approval.
Once an alumni applicant's graduation date has been verified, and a photo submitted (for walk-ins a photo will be taken at the Resource Desk), you will be issued a library card, which is required to check out circulating books and audiovisual materials (see Borrowing Privileges for details).
Once you have registered, you will be able to monitor your checkouts and search the catalog via your Primo library account!
Finding more Articles & Databases
A public library within your community may provide access to additional databases. Contact your local library for details.
Inquire with your professional organizations regarding potential access to specialized databases.
Alumni Databases
Check out these databases for your research needs:
- American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955 This link opens in a new window
Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-present - ATLA Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Atla Digital Library brings together in a singular, searchable platform digitized collections from libraries, religious institutions, and other organizations worldwide who collect and preserve texts, records, maps, photographs, recordings, and other materials. The items found in the Atla Digital Library are of importance to those with an interest in researching, studying, teaching, and otherwise searching for historical and archival content in religion and theology. - ATLA Research in Ministry (RIM) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of over 11,000 projects and thesis from more than 100 ATS accredited doctoral ministry programs. - RefWorks This link opens in a new window
ProQuest's next generation of reference management software: empowering students, researchers and librarians to do more. Information on creating and using your account.
Open Access Journals and More
- Academic Journals Academic Journals is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
- Bloomsbury Open Bloomsbury Open offers selected research publications in the humanities and social sciences which are published on open content licenses. Subject areas include: anthropology, politics, international development and sociology, film and media studies, law. There are several collections: Bloomsbury Open Archive 2008-2012, Bloomsbury Open 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
- Digital Commons Network The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
- DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) Provides free online access to full text, peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. Books can be searched (simple or advanced search) or browsed by title, subject or publisher. Over 5600 Academic peer-reviewed books from over 165 publishers.
- Elsevier Open Access Journals All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
- HathiTrust Digital Library "HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives." The Library includes full text access to +5.5 million volumes in the public domain.
- Highwire Press Free full-text access to hundreds of multi-disciplinary online journals. Browse by journal title, publisher, or topic. An Advanced Search function is also provided.
- JSTOR Open Access The ebooks, which reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content, are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Each ebook carries one of six Creative Commons licenses determined by the publisher. The titles are easy to use, with no DRM restrictions and no limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing. Users will not need to register or log in to JSTOR.
- JURN JURN is a unique search tool which helps you find free academic articles, book chapters, theses, and more. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index. Established in 2009 to comprehensively cover the arts and humanities, in 2014 JURN expanded in scope. JURN now also covers selected university fulltext repositories and many additional ejournals in science, biomedical, business and law. In 2015/6 JURN expanded again, adding over 600 ejournals on aspects of the natural world.
- OA Digital Theological Library Curated high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections.
- OAIster OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access digital resources. OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors. The records of the open access digital resources available via OAIster lead to a wide range of materials and include: digitized books, journal articles, newspapers, manuscripts, audio files, video files, photographic images, data sets, theses and research papers.
- OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) OpenDOAR is an authoritative worldwide directory of academic open access repositories. OpenDOAR provides a simple repository list, as well the ability to search for repositories and search repository contents .
- PQDT Open (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open) PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. Open Access Publishing is a new service offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing, and they expect to have many more open access dissertations and theses over time.
- ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO… ROAD provides a single access point to different types of online scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available.
- SSRN (Social Science Research Network) The eLibrary currently contains over 572,200 downloadable electronic documents across 24 social science disciplines in PDF format. The Abstract Database contains information on well over 682,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers