Please note: From 20 March 2012, UCL Library Services regrets to say that it must impose exceptional restrictions on the registration of SOAS Undergraduates and Taught Postgraduates.

Admission to UCL Library for SOAS taught level students

UCL Library Services is unable to accept new applications to use its library facilities from SOAS taught level students (undergraduate and taught postgraduates) during the period 20 March 2012 to 8 June 2012. Those already registered to use UCL Library facilities should be unaffected, but no new applications will be accepted.

Admission to UCL Library for SOAS research students and staff

Staff, Ph.D and MPhil students using the SCONUL Band "A" scheme are unaffected and UCL Library will continue to grant membership.

SOAS students registered for intercollegiate courses at UCL

SOAS students doing formally-recognised Intercollegiate modules at the UCL will also not be affected by the restrictions.

Access to rare/unique UCL Library materials

UCL Library may issue short term access to any member of SOAS in need of access to Library materials only held by UCL. Please contact UCL Library at to discuss arrangements, lib-membership@ucl.ac.uk if this is applicable.

• What do I need to bring with me?
• Lost, stolen and forgotten Library cards for external users
• Electronic resources and computing facilities

There is a reciprocal arrangement between SOAS and UCL, which allows members of each College special privile ges over and above those usually offered to University of London members.

Under the agreement the borrowing privileges will be as follows:

• Staff: 10 books
• PhD/MPhil students: 6 books
• Taught postgraduates: 3 books

Undergraduates are not able to borrow but can obtain reference access for the academic year. Special arrangements apply to intercollegiate students.

Current SOAS ID (including photograph) plus standard proof of address (see What do I need to bring with me?) for deta ils. Those applying for borrowing access should also bring a passport sized photograph.

All non-UCL users (including UCL Alumni) applying for access to UCL Library Services must produce:

• proof of address (home and institutional, where relevant) AND
• photographic proof of identity AND
• credentials to indicate status / eligibility for library use (e.g. SCONUL Access Band 'A' card, UCL Alumni Association card), when making their application

Acceptable proof of identity is:

1. Valid photocard driving licence
2. Valid passport
3. Institutional ID, including the bearer's photo, from another Higher Education Institution
4. Institutional ID, including the bearer's photo, from an M25 scheme affiliated Institution
5. Institutional ID, including the bearer's photo, from one of UCL's affiliated NHS trusts
6. Valid British Library ID card

Acceptable proof of institutional address is:

1. Institutional ID, including the bearer's photo, from another Higher Education Institution
2. Institutional ID, including the bearer's photo, from an M25 scheme affiliated Institution
3. Institutional ID, including the bearer's photo, from one of UCL's affiliated NHS trusts

Acceptable proof of home address is:

1. Recent utility / council tax bill (no more than three months old)
2. Recent bank statement (no more than three months old)
3. Valid photocard driving licence

Applications will not be accepted without sufficient proof of identity and address. One form of ID can fill more than one role (eg. a photocard driving licence is acceptable both as proof of identity and address). Documents present must be the originals (photocopies are not acceptable). Please note that if your status and eligibility is not clear from the presented documentation, you will be asked to produce additional credentials to confirm (eg. official enrolment certificate from one's home institution). This includes students from other Universities where the department and/or degree studied are not indicated on the Student ID card.

Your UCL Library card is important - please take care of it. You will not be admitted without it and you will be charged for its replacement.

UCL Library Services charges a fee of £7.00 for the replacement of all Library only ID cards, reference or borrowing, that have been lost, forgotten or otherwise misplaced.

Note - No charge is made for the initial registration, only for the replacement of lost ID cards. Charges are not levied for the replacement of cards that have expired or are within one calendar month of expiry. Also, if a card has become damaged but can be returned to the Library, it will be replaced without charge.

For licensing reasons, non-UCL members cannot consult UCL Library Services' electronic resources offsite, but we do have a number of dedicated terminals, "eAccess points", from which certain resources can be accessed.

Pages may be printed, subject to copyright restrictions, and subject to the scale of charges in place at the time (which may differ between library sites). It is also possible, again subject to copyright restrictions, to save copies of documents to a USB storage device (for more details, see the Terms of access).

Please note that the printing facility is only available when the site's Issue Desk is open.

To see which Electronic Journals may be accessed through the service, visit the e-Access service listings.

To see which Electronic Books may be accessed through the service, search the Library Catalogue by title, author or subject and select material type 'Electronic Books'.

There is also a list of bibliographic databases and other resources which may be accessed through the service. Please note that the available resources are only those shown on the first screen after clicking the link here. If you then click any of the A-Z links, for example, you will be taken into the normal MetaLib interface and will no longer see only e-Access service resources.

There are no PCs available for general use or internet access.

It is possible to bring a laptop into the Library with you.

Last modified 12 April 2012