Connect from Off Campus

One of the questions I am asked most often is, "How can I access this material from my office/home/laptop?" At UCI, we allow you access through something called a VPN. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, and the Wikipedia entry can describe what that is better than I can! But it allows you to access almost all of our online resources from off campus.

There are several ways to use a VPN, but what seems to be the most stable is using the Software VPN. This requires a little extra effort on the front end, but then affords you stability, so it is worth the effort. To download this, follow these instructions (this is for Windows) :

1. Make sure you're not blocking pop-ups
   
2. Go to the UCI Libraries' "Connect from Off-Campus" link
3. Scroll to "Software VPN" (or click the link in this post!)
4. Log in with your UCInetID username and password (If you haven't activated this or have forgotten your password, click here and activate it)
5. Once you've logged in, scroll to the line that says, "UCI only information: There is additional information available only to authenticated UCI users. Please login..." and click "Please login..."
6. Select your Operating System from the list and click "Download My Choice"
7. A) An icon will appear on your computer, open it and follow the installation instructions. The installation instructions can also be found here.
   B) Once the software is installed, you'll have to choose a "tunnel" to use. ALWAYS use the "UCI FULL" tunnel.
8. You'll be prompted for your UCInetID/Password
9. Click "Continue" in the next pop-up, and you're ready to go!
   

Once you've installed the software, just remember to connect to the VPN whenever you want to connect to UCI Libraries' resources from off campus! Also, below are installation guides from NACS:

Here is an installation guide for Windows
Here is an installation guide for Mac OS X
Here is an installation guide for Linux

I hope this helps with connecting from off campus!