Hello everyone,
Thank you so much for your incredibly helpful responses. It's interesting to see the variety of ways this is being achieved elsewhere.
I'm going to take a further look into VPN plugins and dongles as these seem to be the most straightforward and I'd like all library staff to be able to support remote users.
Thanks again,
A
Angus Sinclair
e-Resources & Journals Coordinator
Goldsmiths, University of London
London SE14 6NW
0207 717 3343
@GoldsmithsLib
libanswers.gold.ac.uk
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We have software to do this checking, but my quick-and-dirty method uses my smartphone (turn off wifi, and use the data plan). If I click on the link within our website and I'm prompted for a username and password, I assume the proxy server is doing its job. I could also use my mobile wifi hub (which runs off my cellphone data plan) and a laptop, as somebody suggested.
Sandy Barstow
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University of Wyoming Libraries
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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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