Connect to UW-restricted Resources from Off-Campus

Most of the databases, electronic journals and e-books available through the Libraries are restricted to UW faculty, students and staff. If you connect to the Internet via an Internet Service Provider (such as Earthlink or Comcast), you will need to use the UW Libraries Proxy server.

To start a session with the new proxy, click on the "off-campus access (log in)" button in the upper right corner of most pages on the website (both UW Libraries and Health Sciences/Healthlinks) or visit http://offcampus.lib.washington.edu/. This proxy requires that you always start a session to gain access to restricted resources. You must login to the proxy server with your UW NetID (Cascadia Community College users go here) and your browser should have cookies enabled.

Note that the "Off-Campus Access" button now says "off-campus access (logged in)" and the address shown in your browser address bar includes "offcampus.lib"

Hints for using the proxy:

• Use the forward and back buttons on your browser to move around
• Do not use the home button, your favorites or bookmarks
• If you fall out of the offcampus proxy space, and no longer see the special url or the "Off-Campus Access Granted" message, then click on the "Off-Campus Access" link again or the proxy bookmarklet to re-enter

Proxy Bookmarklet

Another solution, which is more flexible, is to use our proxy bookmarklet. Once the bookmarklet is installed, you do your research and at some point will arrive (unauthenticated) at the content provider's site. Then hit the bookmarklet and it takes you back to that same page, but through the proxy server. More information on our bookmarklet is available at http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/proxyTools.html

Creating proxied links for Reserves and Syllabi

To create a URL that will automatically require the user to log in to the proxy server, prepend http://offcampus.lib.washington.edu/login?url= to the actual URL. For example, if I want to make the link for ProQuest Databases (http://www.umi.com/pqdauto) available from off-campus, the URL will look like this: http://offcampus.lib.washington.edu/login?url=http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

More information about this proxy, including help, can be found at http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/ezhelp.html.

If you have a URL and want to proxy it, enter the URL below:

To "un-proxy" a URL so you can cite it in a bibliography or access it from on campus, enter the proxied URL here: