Library access


The next time you hit a paywall on a paper you actually need, check here before you pay.

Every Monash graduate keeps free access to 33 research databases with millions of resources, borrowing rights at every Monash University Library, and somewhere to sit and work.

It runs through your Alumni Portal account, and it's free for life.

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Three things come with your degree

Read the research

33 databases spanning business, medicine, law, history and the sciences. Peer-reviewed journals, market reports, and newspaper archives. Free once you've signed in to the Monash Alumni Portal.

See what's available

Borrow the books

Register once and borrow up to 30 items at a time from any Australian branch of Monash University Library, or five from Monash Malaysia. Two weeks per loan.

Register to borrow

Use the space

Monash University Library branches are open to graduates as a place to read, work and think.

Find a library


Getting in takes two steps

One is instant. The other can take up to two business days to activate, so it's worth starting now rather than the night before you need something.

1. Your Alumni Portal account

Already have one? Sign in here, find Library Access and click Explore Resources.

Don't have one yet? Request access through the alumni contact form. We'll email you an activation link, then you'll confirm your date of birth and set up multi-factor authentication. That step protects both your account and the licences that make this free for alumni, and it takes up to two business days to complete.

Request portal access

2. Sign in and start searching

Inside the Portal, find Library Access and click Explore Resources.

That signed-in session routes you to all 33 alumni databases. No second library login, nothing to install.

Sign in to the Portal


Waiting on activation?

Three things you can do today: visit a Monash University library branch, install the Lean Library extenstion, and email the library for a borrowing card.

A desk, when you want one

Working from home has its limits.

Monash University Library branches are open to alumni as a place to read, work and think, with a café close by on most campuses.

Bookable study rooms and 24/7 study spaces are for current students only.

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Welcome to Lean Library Screen

Let your browser do the checking

Lean Library is a free browser extension.

Install it, choose Monash as your institution, and it flags the articles you can already read as you search the web, then prompts you to sign in when one is available.

You'll turn up things you'd otherwise have paid for, or given up on.

Install Lean Library

Borrowing print is a seperate, one-time registration

Your Portal account covers the digital collection. Physical books work differently, and they don't need a Portal account at all.

Email librarians@monash.edu with your full name, Monash ID and mailing address. The Library will issue an alumni library card, which you can collect in person or have posted to you.

  • Australian branches: up to 30 items at a time, two weeks per loan.
  • Monash Malaysia: up to 5 items at a time, two weeks per loan.

You can find your Monash ID in the footer of your last alumni email communication from us.

Email the library team

Student getting help at the library information point

What's in the collection

Thirty-three databases, grouped 6 ways. Open a category to see what's inside.


Frequently asked questions


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