Connect from Off Campus (VPN)

If you are ON the UCI Campus, you can access our licensed resources for your personal, educational, non-commercial purposes. 

• I'm using my personal device (e.g., my laptop).
  Connect to the UCInet Mobile Access network.  Don't use the UCI Guest Wi-Fi network.
   
• I'm not using my personal device.  
  Visit the Study Space Locator to find public computer terminals, or visit Equipment Lending to borrow a device.  

If you are OFF the UCI campus, then you need to use the VPN.  

These systems are completely separate from UCI's VPN, so they cannot grant remote access to all of UCI's licensed content. You must use the VPN for remote access to the UCI Libraries' resources.

It’s possible that we don’t license (i.e., subscribe to) it.  We’d love to subscribe to every information resource, but that’s not possible.  You see what we license through these library webpages:

• Databases A-Z
• Research Guides
• UC Library Search

More questions?  That’s OK!  You can Ask a Librarian.   

Make sure you’re connected to the VPN. Some eBook publishers have a login screen. If you see one, use your UCInetID and password. Do not use the guest login. 

If you share your UCI credentials or you share content licensed by the UCI Libraries, that is a violation of our Usage Policy, based on the license agreements that we have with our vendors.  

Under special circumstances, people who are not UCI Authorized Affiliates can be granted a Sponsored UCInetID.  Please visit OIT's Sponsored UCInetID page for a list of circumstances under which Sponsored UCInetIDs are granted. An active UCInetID and password is required to remotely access the UCI Libraries' licensed online resources.

Only UCI faculty, or management-level staff members, or their designees may sponsor someone. The UCI Libraries cannot give out sponsored UCInetIDs because that is outside of our jurisdiction. Please contact your school/departmental IT office and OIT.

Please visit OIT's UCInetID: Support page for current relevant policies. Scroll down and look under the headers Former Employees/Students/Retirees and UCInetID Deletion and Retention Policies.

Please contact the computing help desk for your department, or contact the Office of Information Technology (OIT). OIT also offers it's own VPN troubleshooting FAQs.