Remote Access to Library Resources
Remotely Accessing GC Databases, Electronic Books and Journals
CUNY Central (OLS) based Library Resources
Background to Understanding how the Proxy Works/Remotely Accessing Saved Citations
Webex=>let the Library remotely access your desktop
Note: The library proxy which is setup to be seamless and transparent; meaning from off campus the proxy detects that the user is attempting to access a resource remotely at which point the proxy serves up a web-page that requires the user to enter their active GC network username and password.
Remotely Accessing GC Databases, Electronic Books and Journals
Because the proxy service is seamless, if you have an active GC network account you do not have to perform any specific configuration task to remotely access library resources.
Merely:
- Go to the library databases or GC e-Journal Finder page.
-or- - Click on a database name OR e-Journal title.
-or- - Click on a Google Scholar “Fulltext at GC” or “Find It” link.
- Enter GC network username/password as prompted. Click here, to setup your GC Network Account or renew your password.
- Failure? Please continue reading.
CUNY Central (OLS) based Library Resources
- CUNY Office of Library Services offers access to CUNY-wide databases.
- Click on resource name, enter 14-digit CUNY library barcode number without spaces.
- All CUNY-wide and GC only databases are available via the GC library proxy server.
Background to Understanding how the Proxy Works
The proxy login page URL is: https://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu
(useful to know to set preferences in add-ons such as Zotero)
And as our database links suggests, all of our licensed resources have a proxy URL embedded in their URLs.
For example, from our Databases page:
http://library.gc.cuny.edu/#tabs-1-4
Ebsco Academic Search Complete has the URL with the proxy URL embedded int he preface of the Ebsco URL:
http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h
If Saving Permanent Links for Licensed Resources (JSTOR, EBSCO, Wiley, etc.) on Campus:
If saving permanent Links on campus for licensed resources you need to add a proxy prefix to the URL, allowing authentication, to guarantee remote access because if the embedded proxy information is not contained in their saved links you will have problems opening these persistent links off-campus. With the following formula, remote users will be able to access any “saved citations” or “persistent links” :
Saved Citation URL from Ebsco User Permalink functionality):
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=53843757&site=ehost-live
Proxy Service Preface URL:
http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=
When working off-campus the student can access the saved citation content by combining these two URLs into:
http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=53843757&site=ehost-live
More examples:
JSTOR Stable URL (copy Stable URL):
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1316160
becomes:
http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url= http://www.jstor.org/stable/1316160
Wiley Online Library PDF:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8675.2010.00621.x/pdf
becomes:
http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8675.2010.00621.x/pdf
Proquest New York Times Full Text PDF:
http://search.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/121750974/fulltextPDF/13307CBA2CD27277E3E/1?accountid=7287
becomes:
http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/121750974/fulltextPDF/13307CBA2CD27277E3E/1?accountid=7287
Remember to use Proxy Serive:
- Graduate Center computer network account username/password are required.
- Network Accounts are only for Graduate Center students, faculty, staff and recent graduates (1 year) only.
- Your network account is the same login as your Graduate Center email account.
- All network users are required to reset their account password every 180 days.
- To reset your password click here.
For other concerns and questions concerning remote access, see Problems Using the GC Proxy Server, and the IT Support Wiki.
Other Library Resource Problems?
Library application issues may be addressed with the assistance of a librarian through remote desktop control.
