The University of Sussex Library will be temporarily closed to external reference and college student members on weekdays before 6pm from Tuesday 6 to Friday 23 May to accommodate our annual assessment period. 

Existing reference and college members are very welcome to use the Library after 6pm on weekdays and at any time over the weekends. 

We will not be processing new membership applications in these categories for the entire month of May, either online or in-person.

Alumni, external borrowing and SCONUL members will not be affected.  Thank you for your understanding. 

A wide range of free and paid membership options for non-University of Sussex members.

The University of Sussex is committed to allowing members of the public who are not staff or students at the university access to its library and collections.

To this end we offer a range of different types of membership, with different costs and access rights.

Please be aware that none of our External Memberships offer access to the Libraries online resources. These are for University Staff & Students only. There is information on Open Access Resources here: https://guides.lib.sussex.ac.uk/

Alumni: Please contact the Alumni Office about the online resources they can provide access to:  https://alumni.sussex.ac.uk/