Alumni Library

Welcome to the Empire State University Alumni Library. In order to access the alumni library resources, enter your SUNY Empire login and password that you use for everything else here at the university as alumni.

If you do not currently have a SUNY Empire login account or do not recall your password, please contact the IT Service Desk on their website or by calling: 888-Help-009 (888-435-7009). 

Once you have your login account, you may access the Alumni Online Library below.

Search Tips for Using the Alumni Library

  • Put phrases in quotation marks — "drug abuse" or "mad cow disease"
  • Use "and" to specify that you want both keywords — teenagers and drug abuse
  • Use "or" to specify that you want either keyword — teenagers or adolescents

Resources by Subject

Multidisciplinary/General Interest

Business

Government

Humanities

Science

  • Bioline International - International bioscience journals
  • HighWire Press - Scholarly journal articles in the life sciences
  • PLoS ONE -Open Access resource for science, including biology, medicine, and engineering.
  • PubMed Central - U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) archive of biomedical and life sciences literature

Social Science

Contact Us

Hours: Mon-Thu: 12 p.m. - 7 p.m. & Fri: 10a.m. - 2p.m. 

Phone: 800-847-3000, ext. 2222

Email: librarian@sunyempire.edu

Text: 518-623-6321  (This is an SMS service, so we cannot receive phone calls or multimedia at this number. Standard messaging rates apply.)

Please note: Ask a Librarian is closed during the Spring, Summer and Winter breaks.  Academic librarians from the Ask Us 24/7 consortium are available to help any time via chat when Ask a Librarian is closed.

If you need to request accommodations for library content, on the basis of a disability or accessibility needs, please contact Accessibility Resources and Services.