Who can access UCLs e-resources?
Current students and employees of UCL, plus Honorary members of staff. Access to our electronic resources is determined by the legally binding contracts that we, as a University, sign when entering into an agreement with a publisher or provider. Most of our contracts have educational arrangements, agreed on a national basis with such bodies as Eduserv Chest and JISC. As the sub-licensee, UCL is generally permitted to grant ‘full’ access (ie from anywhere on the internet) to currently registered students and employees of UCL. Honorary members of staff, defined as ‘persons of eminence in their field, and those who perform extraordinary meritorious service to an Institution’, are permitted to use our electronic resources for academic purposes only. All these people, irrespective of the site at which they work or study, are entitled to register for a UCL userid and password. UCL userids which belong to people external to UCL will not pass through the UCL e-resource login (see below); such
