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# About institutional memberships

Verify your institutional memberships in CONNECT and enjoy content access on all publishing websites that you have joined.

CONNECT offers the following ways to associate institutions with your account:

* By verifying your institutional email address. Institutional email addresses are considered those with a domain name that belongs to an institution.
| Click [here](/en/article/add-an-institutional-membership-by-logging-in-to-the-institution-15ld1l7/) to learn how.
* By logging in to your institution's website or identity provider.
| Click [here](/en/article/add-an-institutional-membership-by-logging-in-to-the-institution-15ld1l7/) to learn how.
* Through your IP address, by logging in to any website that supports CONNECT, while on campus. 
| To associate your institution using your IP address, you need to be connected to the internet through the network of the institution and have the "Automatic creation and renewal of institutional memberships" option enabled here.

Institutional membership affiliations require that you renew them frequently. Click [here](/en/article/renew-an-institutional-membership-1njgy9r/) to learn how.

💬 **${color}[#48bee7](Note:)** You can associate __up to 10 institutions__ with your CONNECT account.