For alumni & visitors

Find freely available resources online

Arizona residents have free access to Digital Arizona Library through the Arizona State Library. Resources include:

• Online reference resources
• Reading Arizona: a selection of nonfiction and fiction ebooks and audiobooks for all ages interested in Arizona topics and themes.
• Testing & Career Exploration: online practice tests and courses for all levels of learners, plus ebooks.
• Arizona Historical Digital Newspapers
• Arizona Maps Online

Pima County residents have access to the Pima County Public Library. You can now apply for a PCPL card online and access its E-Library Online Resources.

Open access materials are freely accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. 

• Much of the scholarship generated at the University of Arizona is in the UA Campus Repository.
• Open Textbook Library features more than 850 complete college textbooks.
• Directory of Open Access Books provides access to more than 36,000 ebooks and chapters in a variety of subjects.
• More than 16,000 peer-reviewed journals are available through Directory of Open Access Journals.
• Project Gutenberg offers more than 60,000 free ebooks. Most are older works for which copyright has expired.
• Standard Ebooks offers carefully formatted, accessible, and free public domain ebooks.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations features millions of graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

When using library search, you can limit results to open access content. Under “Show only” on the results page, select “Open access.”

These tools search the web for openly accessible content:

• SUNY Geneseo’s OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) finds ebooks, audiobooks, videos, and more types of open content by searching more than 117 sources.
• Mason OER Metafinder, from George Mason University, searches open content in HathiTrust, Digital Public Library of America, Internet Archive, New York Public Library and Library of Congress digital collections, and open educational resource (OER) repositories.
• Creative Commons image search: Searches across more than 500 million images.
• CC Search: Finds images, music, media, and other web content.

Take advantage of library resources

License agreements and copyright laws prevent us from providing off-campus access to the library’s online resources for alumni who are not currently enrolled in coursework at the University of Arizona or anyone without a valid NetID.

When we are open to the public, you can access digital and physical content by visiting our libraries in person.

• To access digital content, bring your laptop and use UAGuest WiFi.
• If you don’t have a laptop, use our public computers on the 2nd floor of the Weaver Science-Engineering Library. (You’ll need a computer card, which is free).
• Books, newspapers, and more are accessible to browse and read within the building. (To borrow books, apply for a library card.)

Visit us

Unfortunately, we aren't open to the public now due to COVID-19. But in normal times, we love seeing you at the library!

• Check out the latest events and exhibits.
• Browse through our newspapers on the 3rd floor of the Main Library.
• Try out technology innovations in CATalyst Studios.