Opera web browser has a free VPN setting.
Download latest version of Opera (if you don't already have it); open the
Menu (very top left of browser); select "settings"; then select "privacy &
security"; then check off VPN. Test by going to a site such as
http://www.whatsmyip.org.
~Scott
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-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information
Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angus
Sinclair
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 11:19 AM
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] Replicating remote access on campus.
Hello list,
Increasingly we need to check access to resources from outside our campus
network to support remote users and I just wondered how other libraries are
doing this?
So far as I'm aware all of our campus computers are on the same IP range
that we give our suppliers so I have on occasion used my mobile to access
resources 'remotely'. This is not ideal for a number of obvious reasons.
I initially spoke to our IT department about getting a Tor browser, but
again, the reasons for not being allowed to are obvious enough. The next
suggestion was a VPN but I was told the service they provide would not be
suitable as it serves to bring external clients on to our internal network.
I just wondered if there was a simple solution I've overlooked?
Thanks,
Angus
Angus Sinclair
e-Resources & Journals Coordinator
Goldsmiths, University of London
London SE14 6NW
0207 717 3343
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