Access to Licensed Library Electronic Resources
In February, UK Libraries announced on UK News that Ezproxy service would be required for both on-campus and off-campus access to most UK Libraries licensed resources. Current UK faculty, students, and staff access to a licensed resource will need to be made initially through a UK Libraries service: 1) the UK Libraries web site libraries.uky.edu, 2) InfoKat Discovery infokat.uky.edu, 3) Research Guides libguides.uky.edu , or 4) a “View Now @ UK” button. This action ensures continued access to a broad selection of academic and scholarly electronic resources. This change became necessary due to increased attempts to harvest information in breach of electronic resource licenses and because of UK’s expanding information technology environment.
Access to electronic resources is provided through the following UK LIbraries resources:
Libraries web site: libraries.uky.edu
InfoKat Discovery: infokat.uky.edu
Research Guides: libguides.uky.edu
If presented with the “View Now @ UK” button you may click that resource to gain access to a particular article, ejournal or ebook title in a variety of ways through InfoKat Discovery – most notably when the title is not available from the original publisher, but is available via an alternative purchased collection. You may see the “View Now @ UK” link or button on many of UK Libraries databases when starting from one of the above resources.
PubMed, for example, may be found on the Libraries.uky.edu site by clicking the “DATABASES” tab, searching for PubMed, and then clicking the “PUBMED (UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY)” option. This allows searching PubMed with the setup configured specifically for UK content. It will display the “View Now @ UK” link which provides access specific to UK while at the same time permitting the direct PubMed publisher link to function through Ezproxy.
If the PubMed publisher link is not present or does not function, click on the “View Now @ UK” link. The “View Now @ UK” link will direct you to InfoKat Discovery. InfoKat Discovery may provide additional access options for full text. If multiple access links are presented, be sure to first select a publisher statement whose dates of coverage include the date of your citation.
Click here for more information on using UK PubMed.
Other databases – like Google Scholar (UK), EBSCOhost, OvidSP, JSTOR, etc. may also be accessed here and configured to use the “View Now @ UK” button.
After accessing a frequently-used database or journal as described above, one may save it to favorites or bookmarks for quick access in the future without going through the Libraries sites.
For more information see our announcement, the Ezproxy FAQ, the policy, and of course feel free to contact the Library with any questions at Ask Us. We are here to help.