Connect from Off Campus (VPN)

If you are ON the UC Irvine 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 UC Irvine 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 UC Irvine campus, then you need to use the VPN.  

These systems are completely separate from UC Irvine's VPN, so they cannot grant remote access to all of UC Irvine's licensed content. You must use the VPN for remote access to the UC Irvine 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 UC Irvine credentials or you share content licensed by the UC Irvine 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 UC Irvine 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 UC Irvine Libraries' licensed online resources.

Only UC Irvine faculty, or management-level staff members, or their designees may sponsor someone. The UC Irvine 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 these two headers: 

• Former Employees/Students/Retirees 
• 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 its own VPN troubleshooting FAQs.