Alternatives for when your institution doesn't provide you an e-mail address I study in an institution that never provided me or any other student with an institution e-mail. I feel that this is highly prejudicial to my academic success because a) it forbids me to access closed content, except if I'm accessing it through an institutional computer; and b) it prevents me from being acknowledged by the scientific community. My profile at Google Scholar isn't showing on searches because I don't have a valid institutional e-mail. I cannot create a Scopus profile for the same reason. I really feel that's holding me back when it comes to fully participating in the academic sphere. I've already filed 2 requests for an e-mail, but they simply answer that they don't hand them to masters' students.

My question is if there are alternatives that are suitable to my case that doesn't envolve arguing with the dean about it, because I'm literally days away from my graduation, and if I'm not mistaken, I believe those expire when you graduate. Am I wrong?
Some scientific organizations like ieee provide an life-long (or membership-long) e-mail adress which can be used in an academic context. The advantage is, that it will stay valid even if your affiliation changes. The downside is, you will collect spam forever ;-). 

In our university, all students are in a dedicated "firstname.lastname@student.our-university.de" scheme, and they are deleted a few months after graduation. This does not help for long-term communication issues, but allows access for restricted content during the time of study.

In general, I believe your institution should provide an e-mail address due to many reasons (e.g. authentification, ease of communication, etc.), honestly it is hard to imagine how we would run our institution without.