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Proxy Server for E-Resources

About the Proxy Server

Most of the Library's e-resource database vendors allow access to their products only from computers with an Internet (IP) address that is recognized as belonging to the UIUC campus. The proxy server allows authorized members of the UIUC community to access these restricted databases from off-campus.
   
Your web browser communicates with the proxy server in the library, which communicates with the e-resource web site for you, and makes it appear that you are on campus.

 

How to Use the Proxy Server

As a patron, you don't have to do anything special to make this work. When you click a link from on a Library web page, the Library  web server decides whether you need the proxy server. If you are off campus, you are prompted for your University Net ID and password. Once that's verified, you'll get a link to begin using the e-resource through the proxy server. Your connection will stay authorized until either you close your web browser, or don't communicate with the proxy server for two hours.

 

Need to Verify Your Net ID?

Visit CITES Account Services for assistance.

 

If Your Network Has Its Own HTTP Proxy Server

It should work in conjunction with the Library proxy server. Unlike a standard HTTP proxy server, the Library proxy presents web pages that appear to come from a normal web server. It does this by searching the content of the pages it retrieves on your behalf, and rewriting the URLs so they refer back to itself instead of the remote servers it proxies. Therefore, you should not change your web browser's proxy settings to use our service.

 

Proxy Server Login Required With The Campus VPN

The license terms for most of the Library's subscription databases restrict access to current University employees, students, and retired faculty. CITES VPN allows a broader set of affiliated users, therefore even VPN connections must be authenticated to determine eligibility.