Troy LibAnswers

Do I retain Library access after I leave TROY?

Retired faculty with the status of Professor Emeritus keep their full library privileges, including Interlibrary Loan service.

For all students, faculty, and staff, access to proprietary databases (ones with a paid subscription) stops after you leave TROY—it is linked to both your Trojan email and registration status (databases are licensed only for use by current students, faculty, and staff). Faculty and staff email access ends shortly after leaving TROY. For students, access remains for two-years from the last date you were actively registered for classes.

ANYONE CAN ACCESS MOST OF THE LIBRARY INDEXING

To access library resources at any time after you leave TROY, go to https://my.troy.edu/, log in as a Guest, and then select Libraries.

You will be able to use the home page search box, Discovery. You will be able to access the full text of any items that are open access, and you will be able to use most of the indexing provided by Discovery to identify items of interest. Use your local public or college library to access materials or to request them by interlibrary loan.

Suggested alternatives to the Troy Libraries:

Other sources of indexing, and open access text, when available, include the following (linked list below).

APA PsycNet, ERIC, IEEE Xplore, MEDLINE, and PubMed are subject specific.

The large/broad-subject-based databases are Google Scholar, JSTOR, ProQuest, and WorldCat.

Covering broad subjects, but published by a single publisher are Cambridge Core, Emerald Insight, Sage Journals, ScienceDirect, Taylor and Francis Online, and Wiley Online Library,

APA PsycNet: https://psycnet.apa.org/

Cambridge Core: https://www.cambridge.org/core/#
(From the publisher, Cambridge University Press)

Ebsco (database company) provides a number of free databases at https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/free-databases.

Emerald Insight: https://www.emerald.com/insight/
(From the Publisher, Emerald)

ERIC: https://eric.ed.gov/
(From the U.S. Department of Education)

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
A very large index of scholarly materials (mostly journal articles). Full text is linked when available.

IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
(From the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/
A very large index of scholarly materials. Full text is provided for open access materials.

MEDLINE: https://medlineplus.gov/
(From the National Library of Medicine)

ProQuest: https://www.proquest.com/
Indexing from one of largest database providers. Full text is provided for open access materials.

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
(From the National Library of Medicine)

Sage Journals: https://journals.sagepub.com/
(From the publisher, SAGE)

ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/
(From the publisher, Elsevier)

Taylor and Francis Online: https://www.tandfonline.com/
(From the publisher, Taylor and Francis)

Wiley Online Library: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
(From the publisher, Wiley)

WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/
A very large index of books, articles, and much more.