As you may already know, the ability to remotely access library resources is determined by your status. You must be a currently-registered student, faculty or staff to do so. Often times, a graduate student will not be enrolled in a credit-bearing class, but will be actively working towards completing a project/thesis/dissertation. They'll try to get to something online and find out that their access is denied because they're not enrolled in class.
Luckily, there is a work-around for this. For students who are not enrolled through the Graduate School (this includes Med School, School of Dentistry, School of Public Health, College of Pharmacy, College of Veterinary Medicine) they can complete this form. The form needs to approved by their faculty advisor and returned to the Borrowing Privileges & Fines office at Wilson Library for processing.
Students registered through the graduate school (School of Nursing) may obtain borrowing privileges by registering for the zero-credit, zero-fee, non-graded registration option, GRAD 999, offered through the Graduate School. Once registered, a graduate student’s University accounts will be reactivated.
Undergraduate students who are not currently registered, but are completing research/honors projects may obtain borrowing privileges by completing an “Unregistered Undergraduates� application. The application can be downloaded online.
This information is available on the Libraries' website at http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/boptions.phtml#unregrad.