Monday 5 August 2013

For UWO employees... accessing journal or book subscriptions from outside the office

If you've gone through pubmed or Scholar and arrived at a paper you'd like to obtain, but you've been rejected because the site doesn't recognize your subscription, then just put "proxy2.lib.uwo.ca" onto the end of the site name, between the URL and its parameters. For example...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811910010062
becomes...
http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy2.lib.uwo.ca/science/article/pii/S1053811910010062

You'll then need your Western ID and password, of course.

Magic, huh?
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  1. RhodriCusack18 February 2014 at 13:18

    They changed the proxy server - you'll now need to add
    .proxy1.lib.uwo.ca

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