Remote Access to Library Resources
Or
"How do I get to this stuff from home?"

The library pays subscription or licensing fees for information that is higher quality, better organized and more complete. These licensed library resources are designed to provide high quality research material. These resources are often restricted to students, staff or faculty of the school. In order to use these resources from home or off campus, you must follow your school's remote access procedure.

Remote access procedures vary from institution to institution. Some institutions use a proxy server to allow access from off campus. Utah students can click your institution's name for specific instructions on how to obtain remote access. Some institutions do not provide remote access and have no link. If you experience problems, or are not a Utah college student, talk to a librarian at your institution.
 
 

Brigham Young University --- Harold B. Lee Library Go to the database you wish to use and click on the Off Campus Access link to get instructions for using the resources from off campus. College of Eastern Utah --- Ask at the Library Dixie College --- Val A. Browning Library --- Ask at the Library Salt Lake Community College --- Markosian Library Snow College --- Lucy A. Phillips Library--- Ask at the Library Southern Utah University --- Gerald R. Sherratt Library University of Utah --- J. Willard Marriott Library & S. J. Quinney Law Library University of Utah --- Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library Utah State University --- Milton R. Merrill Library Utah Valley State College --- Ask at the Library Weber State University --- Stewart Library Westminster College --- Giovale Library --- Ask at the Library

Tip: Pioneer is a collection of licensed resources that is available to all citizens of Utah. Ask the librarian at your local library, your school library, or your academic library for a user name and  password.

Characteristics of licensed library resources:

• Editors establish guidelines and determine the types of materials that are selected to create licensed resources or databases. This provides quality control.
• Licensed databases may include books, book chapters, government documents, magazine or journal articles, newspapers, etc.
• Article databases are sometimes designed with a subject specific focus. For example:
• ERIC references thousands of educational topics from the Educational Resources Information Center.
• PAIS International is a bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
• SocioFile Sociological Abstracts covers sociology and related disciplines
• Database editors use a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus to precisely describe specific subjects.  For example:
• Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors for searching ERIC
• Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for searching PsycINFO
• Licensed databases provide  more specific search results than Internet search engines.
• Licensed databases provide better access to scholarly resources than Internet search engines.

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