Alumni

Register for an Alumni account

AS&E and SMFA alumni can register for an alumni library account to borrow physical books, CDs, and DVDs, as well as select online resources, by completing this form. Your graduation from Tufts will need to be verified. Once you are registered, your alumni account will be valid for five years and is renewable.  

See our Loan & renewal periods page to learn more about what you can borrow with an alumni account.

Fletcher School alumni can register through Ginn Library.  Boston health sciences campus alumni can register through Hirsh Library. Grafton campus alumni can register through the Webster Family Library.  

Borrow materials

Please visit our Loan & renewal periods page to learn more about what an alumni account at Tisch, Lilly, and the SMFA libraries allows you to borrow as well as how long you can keep it. Use JumboSearch to browse our collection. AS&E alumni may also borrow print books from Ginn Library for 28 days. 

To view a list of items you currently have checked out, go to "My Account" in the upper right corner of this page. When prompted to login, select "Email Address" (the second option) and enter the email address registered with your alumni account. You will then receive an email that includes a link to access your account information.

Alumni cannot borrow material through Interlibrary Loan at Tufts, but you may be able to use Interlibrary Loan services at your local public library.

Research support

Access remote research support by chat, phone, or email.

Request a consultation with a librarian.

Access databases

You can access Tufts Masters and PhD candidates’ theses and dissertations through Tufts Digital Library. 

Starting 1/15/2025, access to online resources has changed. Instructions for the new process are available on the Tufts Libraries OpenAthens Support Guide.

Please note: Ebooks and streaming media (audio/video) access are limited for alumni due to our licensing agreements. We recommend contacting your local public library to access ebooks. 

Databases for alumni

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ABI/INFORM Collection
Indexing, abstracts, and full-text of scholarly and trade journal articles in business, management, and trade. Also covers dissertations, SSRN working papers, market reports, industry reports, business cases, local and regional business information, and global and trade news. Includes full text of The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition and digital images of selected key business journals from the first issue to the present. 1971-. 520 Article citations and some full text articles in business-related publications. A complete database comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry.
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ACLS Humanities Ebook
A collection of scholarly e-books in the Humanities. Strongest in history, the collection also includes works in Art History, Folklore, Literature, Musicology, Philosophy, and Religion.
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AM Explorer
Through AM Explorer, you can search millions of pages of primary sources spanning the 15th–21st centuries, including a wealth of new content added every year. Resources span the social sciences and humanities, developed in collaboration with leading libraries and archives.
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Annual Reviews
Search full text of Annual Reviews covering the biomedical, physical and social sciences, and economics.
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Chicago Manual of Style Online
Online version of the Chicago Manual of Style. Guidelines, rules and regulations about writing style, authorship, printing and publishing manuscripts, articles, essays, etc.
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CQ Press Library
CQ Press Library is a resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
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Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts
This database gives access to the dissertations and theses produced by students at Tufts University.
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Duke University Press
The Duke University Press journals collection provides online access to over 50 humanities and social sciences journals.
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Ethnomusicology

Anthropology, ethnomusicology, music | 1930 CE-present | Field audio recordings and interviews, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence, and ephemera.

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Henry Stewart Talks Biomedical and Life Sciences
Henry Stewart Talks contains over 1,000 online audio-visual seminar style talks in medicine and the life sciences.
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JOVE Core
Video textbooks which explain concepts taught in undergraduate courses through high-impact animations and real-life experiments.
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JSTOR
JSTOR includes scholarship published in more than 1,400 of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
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MEDLINE (Ovid)
Search the Medline database, the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) database of citations and abstracts to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine, through the use of the Ovid interface.
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Naxos Music Library
Collection of classical music available online. Includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 170,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
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PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. It monitors all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. It is also the host of the largest open access archive in philosophy.
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Project MUSE
Provides electronic access to the full text of Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly publications in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
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RKMA Market Research Handbooks
Research on consumer and B2B markets, including market forecasts, sector trends, statistics, and relevant associations. Current handbooks include: Business-to-Business Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Consumer Marketing; Consumer Use of the Internet & Mobile Web; Entertainment, Media & Advertising; Healthcare Business; Leisure Business Markets; International Consumer Markets; Restaurant, Food & Beverage Market; Retail Business, Sports Marketing; and Travel & Tourism Markets.
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Sage Journals
Research journals in Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Sciences & Engineering, and Social Sciences & Humanities.
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SAGE Knowledge
The SAGE Knowledge platform provides cross-searching of SAGE resources including reference works, ebooks, and CQ Press. Included titles represent many disciplines within the social sciences such as juvenile justice, terrorism, social theory, crime, African American society, social welfare, education and many more themes.
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SAGE Research Methods Video: Medicine & Health
SAGE Research Methods Video includes hours of tutorials, expert interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process.
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Women Writers Online
A full-text collection of works written by women, in English or in English translation, before 1850.
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World Shakespeare Bibliography
The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of a comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide from 1960 to the present.
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