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Access to electronic journals varies between service providers. For many, on-campus access, and in some cases off-campus access, is available without the use of a password. Where indicated below, a password is required. This will be a Raven password. For more information on Raven, view this FAQ. Off-campus access can usually be obtained through the use of a Magpie or VPDN accountor Raven password. Please consult the table below to see what is required to access the journals of each service provider.

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Service provider Access route On-campus access Off-campus access Subscription information
ACM Digital Library   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN   Online access to all titles in the ACM Digital Library plus Proceedings of the Special Interest Groups 
AERA SIG Communication of Research   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
American Association for Cancer Research   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
American Chemical Society Web Editions   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN   Online access to selected titles from ACS Online.  
American Geophysical Union   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
American Institute of Physics   cam domain   No password required   VPDN   Online access to selected titles for which print subscriptions are held 
American Mathematical Society   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN    
American Meteorological Society   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
American Physical Society   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
American Physiological Society   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
American Physiological Society Legacy Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
American Society for Microbiology   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Annual Reviews   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN   Online access - including back issues - to all titles 
AP Ideal   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
ASPET Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Atypon Link   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
Bioline International   unrestricted   No password required   No password required   Access to quality peer-reviewed research journals published in developing countries, including free online access to full-text where available. 
BioMedCentral   unrestricted   No password required   No password required   See list of titles at http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/. Access to open access titles only 
Blackwells   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
Cambridge Journals Online   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to selected titles. Full-text access is available only for titles marked 'institutional' on the publisher's A-Z list 
Cell Press   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN   Site Licence for all available Cell Press titles 
Communications of the Association for Information Systems   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Company of Biologists   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Crystallography Journals Online   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
CSIRO Publishing Journals   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN    
Digital Library of the Commons   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Directory of Open Access Journals   unrestricted   No password required   No password required   Access to over 500 'open access' journals i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. All subject areas and languages will be covered. Further information about the project can be found via the DOAJ website. 
EDP Sciences   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Electrochemical Society   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Eudit   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
European Physical Society   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Freely Accessible Business Journals   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Freely Accessible General Interest Journals   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Freely Accessible Journals   unrestricted   No password required   No password required   Science, Arts & Humanities, Business Journals 
Freely Accessible Pre-print Services   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Freely Accessible Science Journals   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Freely Accessible Social Science Journals   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Hein-On-Line   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
Highwire Press   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN   Ejournal gateway: Provides online access to selected titles from Stanford University Press and also access to selected titles from other publishers (such as OUP and BMJ). Hire Wire Press also provides one of the largest free full-text science archives (NOTE - not all articles are free). 
Highwire Press (Free Journals)   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Hindawi Publishing   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP)   cam domain   No password required   VPDN   Online access to all journals via the IEEE Xplore service (does not include Conference proceedings) 
IEEE Spectrum Online   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Indian Academy of Sciences   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Informaworld   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN    
INFORMS PubOnLine   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Ingenta Select   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
IngentaConnect   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Ejournals gateway: Online access to selected titles from various publishers 
Institute of Physics Archives   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to all IoP titles from  
JSTOR Arts and Sciences I Collection   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to an extensive archive of over 300 core scholarly journals, mostly in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR does not include current issues. 
JSTOR Arts and Sciences II Collection   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to an extensive archive of over 300 core scholarly journals, mostly in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR does not include current issues. 
JSTOR General Science Collection   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to an extensive archive of over 300 core scholarly journals, mostly in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR does not include current issues. 
Karger Online   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Literature Online (LION)   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
MathSciNet   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Meta Press   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
MIT   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN    
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Nature Journals Online   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to selected titles. 
Nature Reviews   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
New York Academy of Sciences   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
NRC Research Press   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Optical Society of America   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Oxford Journals Online   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to selected titles. 
Palgrave Macmillan   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Peeters   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Peeters Online Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
PION Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Portland Press Electronic Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Project Muse   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN    
PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
PubMed Central   unrestricted   No password required   No password required   Free, web-based repository providing free access to scientific research. 
Royal Society of Chemistry   cam domain   No password required   VPDN   Online access to RSC journals 
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Royal Society Publications   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
Sage Criminology   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
Sage Political Science and International Relations   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
Sage Sociology   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password    
ScienceDirect Elsevier Science Journals   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Online access to over 1,600 scientific, technical and medical journals from Elsevier Science  
SIAM Journals Online   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Society for General Microbiology   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
SORA - Searchable Ornithological Research Archive   unrestricted   No password required   No password required    
SourceOECD   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
SPIE Journals Online   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Springer-Verlag LINK   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN    
SwetsWise Online Content   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Ejournal gateway: Online access to selected titles from various publishers 
Turpion Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
University of Chicago Press   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password or VPDN    
Walter de Gruyter Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN    
Wiley Interscience Journals   cam domain/Raven password   No password required   Raven password   Full-text online access to over 80 subscribed titles published by John Wiley & Sons, plus access to abstracts from all other Wiley ejournals 
World Scientific Journals   cam domain   No password required   VPDN