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Library membership for UCL students will expire after your Portico “Expected end date”, even if you remain enrolled.
Please speak to your department if you have an extension or deferral to ensure that your record is updated. If you believe that your “Expected end date” is incorrect, please contact askUCL.
UCL alumni can register to re-join our libraries as reference members for free, providing their library account is clear. A £50.00 annual charge applies for UCL alumni borrowing membership. A borrowing membership will allow you to borrow up to five books at a time.
Access to our libraries and study spaces
After your Portico “Expected end date” your UCL student ID will expire and will no longer provide access to our libraries and study spaces.
Borrowing/Click and Collect
After your Portico “Expected end date” you will no longer be able to borrow books from our libraries or place Click and Collect requests.
Manual and automatic loan renewals
Any books that you have on loan must be returned before your Portico “Expected end date”, as after this date books will not renew automatically, and you will be unable to extend the expiry date manually. If books are not returned, you may incur overdue fines.
Scan and Send
After your Portico “Expected end date” you will no longer be able to place Scan and Send requests.
Access to My Account via Explore and to electronic resources
After your Portico “Expected end date” you will no longer be able to log-in to My Account via Explore with your student credentials. Please make sure you export in advance any lists of saved records which you need to keep.
Access to electronic resources will also end on this date. Once your student access to electronic resources has ended, there are some further access options for UCL Alumni.
If you have been given an extension, deferment or interruption and therefore remain enrolled after your Portico “Expected end date”, you will still be able to access electronic resources via Explore without logging-in to My Account.
You can search for electronic resources on Explore and follow the links as usual. When you click on a link you will be taken to a UCL authentication webpage before access is provided.