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A service dedicated to students of the University of London's Distance learning community. We provide online resources, professional support and guidance to all our students whenever, and from wherever they have chosen to study.

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Summon down for maintenance on 18th June

17 Jun 2022

The Online Library’s search engine Summon will be down for maintenance for 24 hours, between 2:00 AM on Saturday 18th June and 2:00 AM on Sunday 19th June (British Summer Time). During this time, you can still search Summon, but clicking on a result will not take you to the text.

Live Chat unavailable on 17th June 2022

13 Jun 2022

Owing to staff training, the Live Chat service will be unavailable on Friday 17th June.

Summon error

20 Aug 2021

There is a technical problem with some of our links to EBSCO databases in the Summon search results.

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