Please note that all Library branches except for the Humanities and Social Sciences Library and the Nahum Gelber Law Library will be closed on Monday, September 6 in observance of Labour Day.
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library (Redpath Library Building entrance) and Nahum Gelber Law Library will be open on September 6 from 10 am to midnight for study only.
No services will be offered.
During the pandemic Library users have benefitted from the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). With the opening of the Library for the fall term on September 1, access to the physical stacks will be reinstated and our agreement with Hathi Trust will come to an end.
Updated September 3, 2021
The Library created a detailed LibGuide that offers a helpful overview of the newly branded Sofia catalogue to the McGill community. It contains many helpful tricks for using the catalogue effectively and is a great, bookmark-worthy resource.
Sofia, McGill’s bilingual catalogue is evolving! As of July 14, you will be able to explore the new interface of Quebec university libraries’ discovery tool. This renewed interface is more user-friendly and offers several improvements:
- Redesigned ergonomics for smoother and more intuitive navigation
- New intelligent request processing feature that displays the document which is the easiest to access
- Search terms underlined in yellow
- Optimization of accessibility for the visually impaired
- New icon for the Chat service
Due to scheduled maintenance, ProQuest Ebook Central will be unavailable on Saturday, June 26, 2021, from 10:00am to 6:00pm EDT.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please note that McGill Study Hubs, Library Pickup Service and Virtual Reference Service will not be available on Thursday, June 24 and Thursday, July 1 in observance of La fête nationale/Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day and Canada Day respectively.
2021 summer service hours available here.
As a part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) negotiation, McGill Library is pleased to announce a new open access discount with Elsevier. McGill corresponding authors publishing in eligible Elsevier journals now have access to a 20% discount on article processing charges (APCs). This is retroactive to articles submitted after January 1, 2021.
View the list of eligible journals (file will download).
The McGill Library has discontinued its institutional subscription to RefWorks, effective September 30, 2021. If you are a current RefWorks user, you will need to migrate your references to another citation manager software by September 2021. It will take about 30 minutes to make the change.
We recommend Zotero for its ease of use and functionality. We will reach out to frequent users with instructions on how to migrate references to Zotero, and you can find more information and the guides here.
Starting Monday, May 31, 2021, McGill’s Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) will be required when users sign in to their Library account. This step mirrors the log-in process required for other campus systems (e.g. email/Microsoft 365, Minerva, My Courses, VPN, etc.).
Please note:
The McGill Library is pleased to welcome Katherine Hanz as the new Associate Dean, User Services, on a four-year term, ending May 2025.
Katherine Hanz has been leading the User Services team on an interim basis since last year. Hanz will continue to provide leadership in numerous areas including circulation, reference, and instructional services in the Library’s physical and virtual spaces. She will also spearhead the development and day-to-day management of services delivered through McGill’s branch library system.
Please note that Study Hubs and the Virtual Reference Service will not be available on Monday, May 24, 2021 in observance of Victoria Day / La Journée nationale des patriotes.
2021 spring/summer service hours available here.
From May 1 to August 31, 2021, the following services will be operating under spring/summer hours:
1. Library Pickup Service available at four locations:
As of January 2021, an unlimited, automatic thirty-day renewal policy will be applied to most items.
Items that do not fall within the automatic renewal policy have been manually renewed to September 30, 2021. Items in question include materials on reserve prior to March 2020 or materials held by patrons whose accounts have expired.
Please note that:
- materials will be renewed automatically as long the account is in good standing
The McGill Library has added another mechanism for campus researchers to deposit to the open access eScholarship digital repository, an online form.
