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CSU Faculty, Staff and Students

Use your CSU ID number and library PIN to log in and take advantage of personalization options. Once logged in, users can create and search personalized sets of databases and other resources, save searches, save citations to relevant articles, and more.

Off-Campus Users (CSU Faculty, Staff, and Students)

Log in using your CSU ID number and library PIN for full access to resources. Find Articles includes many resources, the use of which is restricted by license agreements.

Guest Users

Users who are not CSU faculty, staff, or students have limited access to Find Articles.

  • From a computer in the CSU Libraries

Guest users may search for resources but do not have login privileges that are required for complete functionality.
  • Off-campus

Off-campus guest users may search free, publicly available resources. Such resources include the CSU Libraries Catalog, PubMed, etc.