Off-campus Online Access

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Licensed Resources

The UW Madison Libraries website is openly accessible and presents a wide range of electronic resources. Many of these are purchased. Purchased resources…

  • Require licenses
  • Have copyright restrictions
  • Are restricted to specific users, usually UW Madison students, faculty and staff

Electronic resources fall into various access categories. These are distinguished by the icons below:

Sign-in required to search resources Sign-in required to search resources (for off campus users)
Campus libraries or for UW Madison students, faculty, or staff w/ installed client - see Help file Only available on campus library workstations. UW Madison students, faculty, or staff should launch the installed client.
Only available in campus libraries Only available in campus libraries
Vendor license does not allow off-campus access Vendor license does not allow off-campus access

You are a validated UW Madison Libraries patron if you are in a campus library, using a computer on campus via a campus LAN (Local Area Network), or using UW Madison WiscWorld dial-up.

If you are currently affiliated with UW Madison but using a different ISP (Internet Service Provider), or using DoIT's WiscVPN, or accessing our resources from another university, you need to login via the remote proxy service.

Note: Most resources are available for off-campus access through the Libraries remote access service. However, some resources are unavailable off-campus due to technical or licensing issues.

Resources Unavailable Off-campus

The following resources are not currently proxied:

  • Ancestry Library Edition is not licensed for off-campus use.
  • Chem Sources - Online is licensed only for on-campus use.
  • Standard and Poor's Net Advantage is licensed only for on-campus use.

The following Highwire Press journals are not currently proxied (Note that the majority of Highwire Press journals are proxied for remote access. Highwire Press requires permission from each journal's publisher for remote access. We are looking into obtaining this permission.):

  • INFORMS PubsOnline (Interfaces, Management Science, Marketing Science, Mathematics of Operation Research, Operations Research, Organization Science, Transportation Science) at pubsonline.informs.org as of February 2003

There are thousands of electronic journals available to this campus and the list grows daily. If you have a specific licensed, Web-based journal or other resource you need to use from off-campus, please contact the Library Technology Group Help Desk and tell us the name and, if possible, the URL of the resource.

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