Congrats to all of our recent University at Buffalo graduates! All alumni are given library borrowing privileges provided they are current members of the UB Alumni Association. Bring your UB Alumni membership ID to any library circulation desk to receive your Courtesy Borrower / Library Research Station Access Card, which will allow you to borrow up to 25 items and provides you with in-library access to article databases and electronic journals. UB Alumni Association members can also access JSTOR, EBSCO Academic Search Alumni Edition and Business Source Alumni Edition databases from off-campus as part of their Members-only Benefits. Members should contact the UB Alumni Association for log-in information.
If you are not currently affiliated with the University at Buffalo, you are unable to access our databases from outside the library. However, if you are a New York State resident, you can access databases freely through the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, the New York State Library’s NOVELNY, and the New York Public Library. For details, check out our Off-campus Access to Databases for NYS Residents page.
With finals quickly approaching, you may be searching for a quiet space to focus on your studies. Or perhaps you are collaborating with a group and need a space where all of you can meet and discuss your project. For an overview of designated group and quiet study spaces as well as locked study carrels in each library, visit the 
As students, you hear a lot about plagiarism. A statement is typically listed on your syllabus telling you not to plagiarize and if you do, what the consequences will be. However, many students are not exactly sure what plagiarism is or how they can avoid it. To learn more about plagiarism, we’ve compiled a number of resources available to you:
Writing a research paper for a course can be a stressful exercise for many. Finding the right resources to use, synthesizing it all in to a coherent structure, and assuring your argument flows and is logical. Added to that is the often confusing convention of citing your sources. Your sources are those books, articles, websites, and data you’ve found that assisted you in stating your case. In college level writing those sources need to be cited correctly or you could unknowingly be committing plagiarism.