As part of the Library Without Walls  initiative, we are pleased to offer this off-campus research portal designed for individuals who have Library accounts but are not UPSem students, faculty, staff, or affiliated alumni. It searches over 6 million full-text journal articles, over 5 million full-text e-books, and a variety of other materials from high-quality web-based sources like the Directory of Open Access Journals, British Library EThOS, ERIC and HathiTrust. Members also have off-campus access to Overdrive, a collection of downloadable audiobooks, and to the Library’s own digitized historical collections.

To log into the Member Research Portal, click the red button below.

Member Research Portal
Click Here to Login

To learn more or to apply for membership, please use one of these two links:

Patron Registration Page — Richmond Campus

Patron Registration Page — Charlotte Campus

If you encounter problems while using the Member Research Portal, or if you have questions about this service, please contact Electronic Services Librarian Ryan Douthat at rdouthat@upsem.edu or 804-278-4217.

Additional Resources :

Open Access Digital Theological Library — content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections

Biblical Studies UK — large collection of Open Access journals and books, all with appropriate permissions

Dimensions — a large Open Access academic journal content database, including social science, philosophy, religion and ethics, law, creative arts, language, education, history and archaeology

For many other high-quality online resources in religious studies and related fields, click HERE.