Guide to RRU Library services for Alumni

RRU Library invites you to stay in touch. Alumni who come to the campus may search the Library's catalogue, borrow print books, and consult print journals and other materials in the Library's physical collection, all free of charge

Alumni library cards

The Library is pleased to offer a FREE alumni library card to alumni of both the Royal Roads Military College and Royal Roads University. Alumni must provide proof of their alumni status and ID with a current address to obtain a library card. These cards expire after one year and must be renewed.

Alumni can borrow books from our regular collection but cannot borrow AV material, periodicals or reserve items. Books can be borrowed for 4 weeks and can be renewed if not requested by other borrowers.

Services for Alumni at a distance

Alumni can have books sent to them (document delivery) for a fee of $10.00 per request. To learn more about this service click here. go to: http://library.royalroads.ca/start/document-delivery)

The RRU Library Website

Accessing the Library website

The RRU Library website can be accessed at http://library.royalroads.ca

Accessing the Library's online resources

Alumni can freely access the Library's catalogue, as well as Dspace (RRU's institutional repository).

Due to strict licensing agreements with database vendors, access to the Library's collection of licensed online databases (e.g. EBSCOhost and ProQuest) is limited to current RRU students, faculty and staff only. This restriction is common to post-secondary institutions who license online resources, however, there are some information resources that do not fall under these licensing agreements which are freely available. They are:

• Google Scholar http://scholar.google.ca/
• Google Books http://books.google.ca/
• WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) http://www.doaj.org/
• Government of Canada Publications http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/search/search.html
• Hathi Trust Digital Library http://www.hathitrust.org/
• ERIC (Education Resource Information Centre) http://www.eric.ed.gov/
• PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
• PloS (Public Library of Science) http://www.plos.org/
• Agricola http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
• The University of Minnesota's Forestry Library http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/index.html
• Environmental History http://fhsnb.oit.duke.edu/dbtw-wpd/textbase/EHWebQuery.htm
• CANLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) http://www.canlii.org/
• NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/AbstractDB/AbstractDBSearch.aspx
• Canadian Disaster Database http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/em/cdd/index-eng.aspx
• EM-DAT The International Disaster Database http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm
• Global Terrorism Database http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
• FEMA Online Library http://www.fema.gov/library/
• SME Benchmarking Tool http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/pp-pp.nsf/eng/home
• EconPapers http://econpapers.repec.org/
• Statistics Canada http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm
• Statistics Canada - The Daily http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dai-quo/index-eng.htm
• Statistics Canada - Community Profiles http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-591/index....
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/
• Theses Canada Portal http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/thesescanada/
• UMI Dissertations Express http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/
• RefWorks http://www.refworks.com/ (see also supporting documentation)