Partner Colleges and Partner Institutions Library Support page

If your college uses a Microsoft Login. Please follow these instructions when accessing our resources.

As well as printed books, we also have thousands of eBooks.  High quality academic texts that supplement our print collection.

• ProQuest Ebook Central
   
• EBSCO eBooks
   
• IEEE/MIT eBooks
   
• PsycBOOKS

Sometimes you might find a chapter available free through Google books.

As a member of one of our partnership institutions, if your course is an accredited Staffordshire University Course, you will be entitled to loan up to 17 items and have access to many electronic resources.

If your course is not accredited, but run by a partnership institution you can register with the library and take out up to two items only.

There are no more fines! Your books will renew automatically every two weeks. However, if a book is popular and another student requests it, you will receive an email asking you to bring the book back. If you don't, you will get a recall charge and this is £1 a day (excluding weekends).

For students at partnership institutions who can't easily visit one of our site Libraries, we offer a postal loans service within the UK only.  You can request up to 4 books at any one time.  These will be posted to you free of charge, but it is your responsibility to ensure their safe return and to pay the return postage costs.

If there is an electronic version available of any book that you request, we will email you with the details and provide a link to access the eBook instead of posting out the printed version. 

Books in the Library can be found in one of two places-the Core Collection can be found in Library Core on Leek Road  and the Creative Collection in Library Creative on College Road in the Blackstone Building. This is clearly indicated on the library catalogue.  

As a student in higher education your tutors will be looking for evidence that you have used a wide range of resources in your studies.  Periodicals are one such resource.  They can provide up to date, specialised information on topics which are not always found in books.  There are three main types of periodical.

• Academic Journals
• Magazines - both general and professional
• Newspapers

You must decide which is the best for your research.  Please contact academicskills@staffs.ac.uk if you have any problems locating journal articles or access one of your Subject Specific library guides to see how you can access periodicals electronically.

Your Study Skills contact

• You might also want to consider contacting our Study Skills team if you need help with academic writing, assignment structure, time management and more. https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/academicskills

Key links for Partner College students

• List of online resources for UK partner colleges 
• Your Library Account
• The Library Catalogue (to search for printed journals)
• Make an appointment with the team
• Off Campus services

Off-campus you will need to use your University Username and Password.

If you experience any problems please contact academicskills@staffs.ac.uk