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Access to Electronic Resources:
Manually Inserting the Proxy String
Many online journals require subscriptions (which the MIT Libraries pay
for) to get access.
If you are on campus, access can be relatively seamless since authentication
is usually established by IP address (e.g. if you have an MIT IP address,
the publisher recognizes it and lets you in).
If you are off campus, then you need to be routed through the Libraries'
proxy server, which will bring you to MIT's Touchstone, where you can either invoke your MIT web certificates or use your Kerberos login to get access.
Going to a journal through Vera will
always route you through our proxy server.
However, many people like to just search for a journal using Google and
go directly there. To get your browser to route you through the library proxy
server, you can simply insert the following proxy string into the URL of the journal
or even the article you are trying to access:
Proxy string: libproxy.mit.edu
Example:
URL of article/story:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7073/full/nature04177.html
Edit the URL to look like this:
http://www.nature.com.libproxy.mit.edu/nature/journal/v439/n7073/full/nature04177.html
This will only work if the MIT Libraries have a subscription to
the resource. To see what online resources the MIT Libraries have
access to, consult Vera, the
interface to our electronic resources.
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