Q. What support does the Library offer to off-campus students?

Off Campus Library Services of physical items are available to JCU students and staff residing in Australia who live further than 50 kilometres from either the JCU Townsville or Cairns campuses.

Please note: The Library does not mail physical resources such as books to the JCU Brisbane campus, or to locations outside of Australia including JCU Singapore.

Off Campus loan periods allow for postage times to and from patrons. Loans are renewed automatically in their Library account however patrons need to monitor due dates as items may be recalled or requested by library patrons. Check your library account to see the due date on borrowed items, and watch for emails from the library to your JCU email account.

All JCU students, including those located outside of Australia, have access to the Library's online resources including databases, eJournals, eBooks and Library guides. These eResources are equally accessible on and off campus, but to ensure you have access to JCU Library subscriptions it is simpler to access resources via our website so you are authenticated as a member of the JCU community. However as we use OpenAthens it is possible, usually, to login via that once you are on a web site (assuming we subscribe to that particular resource on that particular platform). Make identifying JCU and using access simple by installing the LibKey Nomad browser extension).

JCU staff and students are eligible to become members of other libraries participating in the ULANZ Borrowing Scheme, follow the link to see which institutions participate and how to register.