The University of Sussex Library is dedicated to delivering high-quality, innovative information services, that contribute to the successful learning, teaching and research of the University and the community.
The Library is an essential resource for study and research, containing 18,000 online and print journals, academic databases for research and teaching, and over 800,000 volumes. As well as this extensive range, the Library houses over 60 outstanding manuscript and archival collections, mainly in the field of 20th-and 21st-century literary, political and social history, and the history of science. Notable among these are the papers of Rudyard Kipling, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and the archive of the New Statesman, as well as the world-famous Mass Observation Archive.
Much of the information is available online with the electronic library providing an increasingly wide range of resources accessible to University staff and students. Access to many of these online resources is also available to external members of the Library. We welcome visitors and offer a range of external membership options.