Chemistry (New York, Shanghai): Off-Campus Access

Many online journals and databases require subscriptions (which NYU Libraries pays 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 NYU 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, so that you can be authenticated after providing your NYU NetID and password. This page describes the three main ways to do this.

Note: The proxy prefix and bookmarklet will only allow access to fulltext if NYU Libraries has a subscription to the resource. To see what online resources NYU Libraries has access to, consult our "Journals" search page. 

Getting to a journal or article through the "Journals" page will always route you through our proxy server. This search works best when you enter either a journal title (only), or a specific digital object identifier (DOI), or PubMed identifier (PMID). 

Another way to get your browser to route you through the library proxy server (while off-campus) is to add this "proxy prefix" in front of the URL: http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=

For example, if the URL of an article is:
   http://www.jstor.org/stable/3056806

Then you can edit the URL to look like this:
   http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3056806

This new URL will prompt off-campus users to login with their NYU NetID and password, and then give them the same access as they would have on campus.

Another way to get your browser to route you through the library proxy server (while off-campus) is by adding a "proxy bookmarklet" to your browser. Then, whenever you reach a publisher's page for an article while off-campus, you can click on this bookmarklet, and login with your NYU NetID and password for the same access you would have on campus. 

To add the proxy bookmarklet:

• Drag this link: NYULib Proxy to the browser's toolbar, or
• Right-click on this link: NYULib Proxy and choose "Bookmark this Link" (Firefox) or "Add to Favorites" (Internet Explorer). If the links or favorites toolbar is not visible in your browser, you can try to enable it under Options > Bookmarks Toolbar (Firefox) or View > Toolbars (Internet Explorer).
• If you are on a touch device, or unable to click or drag links, you can create a bookmark, and edit the bookmark's URL to contain the following line of code instead of a web address:

          javascript:void(location='http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url='+location)

Notes:

• You might see a security alert that the "favorite may not be safe", although it is. Click "yes" to continue.
• The bookmarklet is compatible with most web browsers and platforms, as long as your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript.
• You can also save the bookmarklet in your bookmarks folder instead of in the toolbar.