Why aren all taxpayers or U of MN alumni who support the University of Minnesota given the same access to library resources, computers, and the Internet?
University of Minnesota staff and students receive a User Id and password and open access to the Internet as part of the benefits received for paying tuition or working at the University. All users have access to the collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries through LUMINA. They also have access to our licensed databases when they are in the libraries. This includes access to over six million volumes in the University of Minnesota Libraries and more than 200 research databases containing thousands of articles. Additionally, all users have access to federal and state government websites. This access is the same whether the user is on an open access computer or an authenticated computer.
