Access My Library®

Imagine a library open anywhere, anytime, to research an assignment, get vital information, or just settle a bet.

Access My Library® is for you

The virtual doors are open! In this easy-to-use free app you can find directions to every participating library – public, school, university, and more – in your community, and access outstanding resources online.

Instant unlimited access

Access My Library provides you with Gale reference resources. Depending on the specific library’s holdings, you may enjoy instant unlimited access to databases and eBooks covering:
• Academics and homework
• Health and wellness
• Biographies and reviews
• Directories and encyclopedias
• Car repair
• Career and business
• Hobbies and entertainment
• And much more!


New features, new benefits

We’ve upgraded Access My Library to make it even faster and easier:
• An attractive new interface
• “Library Search”: quickly access your library from anywhere
• “My Libraries”: store all of your libraries in one app
• “Mobile Interface”: applicable resources are optimally displayed for your mobile device

Who we are

We're Gale, part of Cengage Learning – a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. We're best known for providing accurate and authoritative reference content. We set the industry standard for intelligently organizing full-text articles from magazine and newspaper articles — as recent as yesterday and as far back as the 1980s. We create and maintain more than 600 reference sources that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform, and we update most online resources four times a day.