Eligibility

If you are either of the following categories from the institutions listed below, you are eligible to join the M25 Consortium Access and Borrowing Scheme.

a member of staff on an open or fixed term contract who has current institutional ID
a postgraduate research student registered for a PhD, MPhil or similar qualification awarded purely by research who has current institutional ID

Institution List

British Library
British Museum
Imperial War Museum
Natural History Museum
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Society of Chemistry
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History
Wellcome Library

General Scheme Details

The scheme provides eligible members with the widest access to higher education libraries in and around the London area. Once registered, you can benefit from the resources of participating Consortium member libraries, including borrowing at most of them.

The List of M25 Scheme Participating Libraries is available to read or download in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

How to Join

Users wishing to join the scheme will need to complete the application form to receive an M25 Access and Borrowing Scheme card. The application form is only available from your home library.

Further details about the scheme are available in a short M25 Scheme User Guide which is also available from your home library.

For full details of member libraries and their location, facilities, opening hours, conditions of use and any additional ID requirements, use our "Find a library" or "Visit a library" services. To carry out a search across M25 member library catalogues for item information, use the "Search catalogues" service.

Further information for M25 librarians is also available.