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Welcome to the SFU Library. We encourage SFU Alumni to continue their use of Library resources and services in their pursuit of life-long learning opportunities.

We offer the following services to SFU Alumni:

COVID-19 service changes

During COVID-19, not all services are available.  SFU Library continues to deliver a wide range of remote services, including extensive online collections, digital course reserves, remote instruction, and consultations with experts.

Following guidance from provincial health authorities and SFU, the Library is gradually restoring some in-person services. 

See Library service updates during COVID-19 for details as they become available. If you have questions about Library services that are not answered here, please contact us at library@sfu.ca.

Electronic resources for alumni

On campus

Most online resources (e-books, journals, and database) are available at SFU Library branches, by using one of the library workstations. Logging in to Library Computers.

Visit us at W.A.C Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby), the Samuel and Frances Belzberg Library (SFU Vancouver), and Fraser Library (SFU Surrey). 

Off campus

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Browse your subject to see our resources for alumni from each field. Use your SFU ID to log in.

Primary Sources

American West
Papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters, including items such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon. Canada and the Pacific Northwest are well documented including accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
Unique manuscript material relating to the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China from 1793 to 1980.

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
This collection covers a broad sweep of history from c. 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan. 

Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
The Confidential Print series issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices since c1820. The series originated out of a need for the Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices.

Defining Gender 1450-1910: Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online
Digital collection covering advice literature to women, 1450 to 1910.

Early Canadiana Online
More than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada.

Eighteenth Century Journals
Rare printed journals, periodicals and newspapers published between 1693 and 1835 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life.

Empire Online
Over 70,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492-1969, taken from libraries and archives around the world, including Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, and South Asia. Currently divided into five thematic sections: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; Race, Class, imperialism and Colonialism.

Foreign Office Files for China 1949-1980
Resource for our understanding of the early Cold War era in China. The documents combine eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and analyses with a synthesis of newspaper articles and conference reports, economic assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.

Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement, and Colonial Encounters
This online collection captures the lives of people living on the edge of European settlement across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Through digitised primary source materials it documents the creation of new states, trade networks, and movements of people in these regions alongside the marginalisation and decline of indigenous peoples.

Mass Observation Online
Everyday British life in the 1930s and 1940s, papers of the Mass Observations Organization.

Medieval Travel Writing
Medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world and dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China.

Meiji Japan
The collections of Edward S. Morse. The collection is divided into twelve main series: Correspondence; Diaries; Scrapbooks; Natural History; Archaeology Field Work; Ethnology; Japanese Pottery; Lectures; Publications; Inventions; Materials Collected by Morse; and Financial Records.

Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Points to the Past (Free to residents of British Columbia)
Includes primary source material: maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, sermons, poems, and more from Gale Digital Collections. 

Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Original primary sources on society, music, politics, fashion and youth culture from 1950 to 1975.

Romanticism: Life, Literature, and Landscape
Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490 - 2007
Resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. This resource provides access to many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images.

Victorian Popular Culture
An essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Contains sections on Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment; and Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema.

Business

Business Expert Press
Business e-books designed to act as course readings and reference materials. 

Mergent Archives
An international collection of annual reports from corporations, as well as the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) Commodity Yearbooks with detailed commodity prices and several Moody’s/Mergent corporate, government, and bond publications. Includes: Mergent Historical Annual Reports, Mergent/Moody's Corporate Manuals, Mergent/Moody's Municipal & Government Manuals, the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) Commodity Yearbooks, and Mergent Bond Record.

Mergent Intellect
Business news, facts and figures derived from Dun & Bradstreet' Hoover's data with access to private and public US, Canadian and international business data, executive contact information, industry research and profiles. Find company financials, business ratios, data/statistics as well as industry information and analyses.

OECD iLibrary
Publications include country studies, forecasting publications, reports, periodicals, and socio-economic databases. Topics covered include agriculture, developing economies, education, employment, energy, environment, migration, social issues, and sustainable development.

SAGE Business Cases
A global and diverse collection of case studies designed to help students see theoretical business concepts put into practice. In addition to content from well-known business case producers such as the Yale School of Management, SAGE publishes original cases that consider different cultural contexts and economic perspectives, often covering topics that have been traditionally overlooked or undertreated in business education such as Sustainability, Social Impact, and Immigrant Entrepreneurs.

Arts and Social Sciences

American Indian Histories and Cultures
The project covers topics such as early encounters between American Indians and Europeans; American Indians and the colonial powers and US government; the indigenous peoples of Mexico; conflict, wars and military contact; the fur trade and Indian traders; education and American Indian boarding schools, and the civil rights movement and political activism.

CAIRN
Cairn offers access to a comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines, including literature.

Cambridge Histories Online
Web-based access to the volumes in the Cambridge Histories series. Contains over 300 volumes published since 1957.

Erudit Journals
French language journals, covering a wide range of disciplines in the human, social and natural sciences

Global Commodities: Trade Exploration and Cultural Exchange
Material relevant to the study of global history and trade. Includes coverage of the social, cultural, economic and political history of commodities such as sugar, chocolate, coffee, fur, tobacco, opium, oil and wine.  

Literary Mansucripts Leeds Collection
17th & 18th Century Poetry from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

Past Masters
Past Masters makes available scholarly editions of the writings of selected literary authors, major philosophers, theologians and political theorists in their original language and English translation. It encompasses the history of political thought and theory, social sciences, classics, philosophy, religious studies and history of science.

Project MUSE
Humanities and social sciences peer-reviewed academic journals and ebooks from university presses and scholarly societies world-wide.

Our Multidisciplinary collections also contain many ebooks and journals related to Arts and Social Sciences.

Sciences

IOP Science 
Books and journals published by the Institute of Physics.

OECD iLibrary
Publications include country studies, forecasting publications, reports, periodicals, and socio-economic databases. Topics covered include agriculture, developing economies, education, employment, energy, environment, migration, social issues, and sustainable development.

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals
A searchable, online, full-text collection of RSC chemistry journals. Also includes online access to Issues in Environmental Science and Technology.

Our Multidisciplinary collections also contain many ebooks and journals related to the Sciences.

Multidisciplinary ebooks, journals, and other resources

Open access

Books and journals for alumni

SFU Library carries over 1.5 million books and thousands of journals. Alumni are able to:

  • Borrow books, generally for three weeks
  • Request books that are out on loan to other users
  • Request books be transferred between branches

See our full Alumni borrowing privileges for more information.

Research assistance for alumni

SFU librarians are always happy to help alumni with their research, such as:

  • recommending particular resources for finding information on your topic
  • suggesting the best strategy to approach your research question
  • helping with search techniques
  • helping you track down hard-to-find items.

Ask a Librarian for help with your research.
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