Computer Info: UCSD Proxy Information

May 21, 2006

Using Library Resources from Off-Campus:

Many of the library's Web resources are restricted to allow remote use by UCSD faculty, staff, and students. There is an easy way for you to use UCSD resources from home. The solution is a proxy server, managed by Academic Computing Services (ACS). By changing one of the settings in your Web browser, your connection to our resources such as online journals and databases will go through this proxy server, which will "authenticate" you with the providers of these resources on the Web. ACS maintains a very helpful Web page with detailed information on how to set up your Web browser to use the proxy. There are instructions for various Microsoft Internet Explorer and several other browsers. It will take you about 2 minutes to set up the proxy.

http://www-no.ucsd.edu/documentation/squid/

If you are a techno-geek and familiar with proxy servers and do not want to read the instructions, all you need to know is that the proxy address is:

http://webproxy.ucsd.edu/proxy.pl

You need to have a UCSD username and password in order to use the proxy server. Everyone at UCSD is assigned one, but you probably do not know what it is. If you do not know what your UCSD username and password are, or need other proxy-related assistance, contact ACS' Network Operations unit:

http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/

Phone: 534-4060 (10 am – 3 pm)

Walk-in Support Hours: 10am - 3:30pm, Monday thru Friday

Applied Physics & Mathematics Building, room 2113

Advantages of proxy

Caches (stores a local copy of) frequently accessed Web sites. This makes it much faster for you to load Web pages that another UCSD user (including you) has looked at recently.

Permits UCSD customers to access Internet services that are restricted to the UCSD community from nonUCSD Internet service providers (such as RoadRunner, AOL, Cox AtHome, etc.). Web resources that become available include:

Library Databases (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/databases.html)

Electronic Journals (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/ejournals.html)

Reference Sources (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/refshelf.html)

WebBT 2000 UCSD Webbased Training System (http://wwwcbt.ucsd.edu)

Among the many restricted resources that become accessible are all MELVYL system/CDL article databases (such as MEDLINE, INSPEC, MLA), hundreds of electronic journals from leading scholarly publishers, Academic Universe, JSTOR, and Web of Science.