Lancaster University Alumni

To order degree certificates, transcripts, High Education Achievement Records (HEAR) and Confirmation of Award letters, please visit our Alumni document ordering pages. 

As alumni you have careers advice for life from Lancaster. Visit the careers alumni website for:

• CV and application help
• Top tips
• Labour market insights
• Personal one-to-one help through the online careers service
• Advice on further study

If you are starting-up a business or are a new entrepreneur, you can also visit Lancaster University Enterprise Centre to access alumni support.

Fancy a souvenir to commemorate your time at Lancaster? You can visit our online shop which offers an assortment of products; from LU hoodies to our own Lancaster University Graduate Bear!

You can also choose from our range of Lancaster University memorabilia:

• Personalised Alumni T-Shirts with your graduation year
• Branded College merchandise
• LU engraved and personalised jewellery can be bought from Annotated Studios
• Lancaster University Monopoly

As a Lancaster Graduate, you can have free online access to the following resources for personal, non-commercial use:

JSTOR

Back issues of thousands of academic journals in a wide variety of disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the database.

SAGE journals

SAGE is your gateway to over 1,000 world-class online research journals, covering a diverse range of subjects including business, health, politics and sociology.

Project MUSE

The leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world. Currently, Project MUSE has over 674 journals from 125 publishers.

Henry Stewart Talks Business & Management Collection

The Henry Stewart Talks Business & Management Collection contains over 1,000 specially prepared, animated, online, multi-media lectures and case studies by experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia for universities, business schools, colleges and continuing professional development. There are over 850 contributing editors, speakers and case study presenters and more than 30,000 informative slides. 

Springer

Springer Link provides online, full-text access to journals published by Springer. Subject coverage includes life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

All of the above are available through the Alumni Library pages  - when you click the alumni library pages link you will be asked to log on to the alumni website. If you have not yet registered for this website, please click the 'new registration' link below the login form. 

EBSCO Business Source
This provides access to more than 1,200 business magazines and journals, including top management journals such as Fortune magazine, New Statesman, Time magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Email alumni@lancaster.ac.uk for access to EBSCO Business Source.

Alumni can receive discounts on University programmes, as well as retaining access to a number of facilities on campus for a discounted rate.

Want to expand your skills and enhance your career through postgraduate study at Lancaster? We offer an Alumni Loyalty Scholarship, a reduction in tuition fees to all taught Master's programmes for eligible applicants. 

Alumni can also receive a discount on your Lancaster University Sports Centre membership.

Book to stay in one of Lancaster's top hotels, Lancaster House Hotel, and enjoy a reduced alumni rate.

Enjoy your special day or host an event with Lancaster Conferences, and receive some fantastic benefits:

• Book your wedding now to receive a free drink for each guest on arrival
• Or why not try Forrest Hills for your business? Just a few minutes’ drive away from Lancaster University, our award-winning venue offers you an idyllic, peaceful setting to escape the office for away days, team building activities and workshops. Day delegate rate from £29pp. Further details 

To check availability and book your event please contact the Lancaster Conferences team on 01524 592444 or email lancasterconferences@lancaster.ac.uk and simply mention the 'Alumni Offer' when making your booking.

We welcome our alumni to come back and visit our campus. Whether you're here for an event, to use the sports facilities or to attend an award-winning performance, Lancaster University campus is open to you. 

You can also stay at our guest rooms on campus.

If you hold a Lancaster University awarded qualification from one of our partner, or previous partnered, institutions, you are eligible to join the Lancaster University Alumni Community.  Please email alumni@lancaster.ac.uk to make your request and we’ll sign you up! View the full list of institutions.

Not all publishers allow you to access their resources from your location but you are also entitled to use the library's Walk-in access facilities to access electronic resources in the library building. 

Borrowing Materials

The Library is open to the public for reference use, but as a Lancaster Graduate you can join as an Alumni Library member for a discounted annual fee of £30. This entitles you to borrow up to ten items from the Library. Please see the terms and conditions.  Please also see the information for visitors for more details.

Please come to the information point (opening hours) and bring your fee (cash or cheque made out to Lancaster University) and proof of address. We will confirm on the central student database that you are a Lancaster Graduate.  If your name has changed since you graduated, please bring evidence. Your card will be prepared while you wait.

The University Library is pleased to announce that it has embarked on an exciting trial project to digitise 250 doctoral level theses from its print collection as a first step to investigating the feasibility of making the University's collection of PhDs available online.

For full details visit this link

If you have any queries about this project, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions page or email library@lancaster.ac.uk