duPont Library is pleased to offer access for alumni to several journal databases and the OverDrive ebook and audio platform!

Alumni are also eligible for library cards. 
(Eligible alumni are individuals who earned a degree from the University of the South.)

Sewanee's JSTOR collections contain over 3000 academic journals and over 70,000 ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It also includes over a million images, letters, and other primary sources. Most journals are covered from their first issue up to 3-5 years from the current year, and include previous titles.

First, go to the login screen.

Next, there are two ways to login to JSTOR:

1. If you are a recent graduate and have a sewanee.edu email address, your username is the first part of your email address (before the @sewanee.edu) and use the same password you use for your email. If you can't get in, you may need to update your password. There is a password reset tool at this link. If you have trouble, there is contact information on that page for the help desk, and they can reset your password.
    
2. If you do not have a sewanee.edu email account, or if the above instructions do not work for you, email us at research@sewanee.edu or call us at 931-598-3333 to obtain an OpenAthens username and password that can be used for JSTOR, Project Muse, and Sage Premier journals.

Project MUSE contains full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, mostly in the humanities and social sciences.

First, go to the login screen.

Next, there are two ways to login to Project Muse:

1. If you are a recent graduate and have a sewanee.edu email address, your username is the first part of your email address (before the @sewanee.edu) and use the same password you use for your email. If you can't get in, you may need to update your password. There is a password reset tool at this link. If you have trouble, there is contact information on that page for the help desk, and they can reset your password. 
2. If you do not have a sewanee.edu email account, or if the above instructions do not work for you, email us at research@sewanee.edu or call us at 931-598-3333 to obtain an OpenAthens username and password that can be used for JSTOR, Project Muse, and Sage Premier journals.

Note: We subscribe to the "Standard Collection" which is not all of the journals on this site. You may want to limit your search to "Only content I have full access to."

A collection of over 700 journals published by Sage, covering topics in the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. More than 298 are published on behalf of learned societies and institutions.

First, go to the login screen.

At the top right corner of the screen you will see "Access Options." Click on "Institution."

From the resulting screen, choose "Open Athens" in the middle column.

Next, there are two ways to login to Sage:

1. If you are a recent graduate and have a sewanee.edu email address, your username is the first part of your email address (before the @sewanee.edu) and use the same password you use for your email. If you can't get in, you may need to update your password. There is a password reset tool at this link. If you have trouble, there is contact information on that page for the help desk, and they can reset your password. 
2. If you do not have a sewanee.edu email account, or if the above instructions do not work for you, email us at research@sewanee.edu or call us at 931-598-3333 to obtain an OpenAthens username and password that can be used for JSTOR, Project Muse, and Sage Premier journals.

Note: We subscribe to the "Sage Premier" package, which is not all of the journals on this site. You may want to limit your search to "Only content to which I have full acess."

This is a collection of full text articles and book reviews from more than 100 journals selected by leading religion scholars in the United States. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.  

1. Contact Romulus D. Stefanut at rdstefan@sewanee.edu to get a username and password.

2. Go to this link.

3. Enter the username and password you were given.

OverDrive is a platform for downloadable ebooks and e-audiobooks.

Complete instructions for using OverDrive are on this page. 

You will need a library card in order to use OverDrive. You can apply for a card using this form. 

We will email you the card number and mail you the physical card.