Papers Support Forum

mek · 2007-05-15 23:12:59

Your librarian or system administrator should be able to give you that. There usually is a script that determines whether a URL should be forwarded using the ezproxy or not, it is the url to this script you are looking for. There is a small trick to find this url: type in your browser the url http://mekentosj.com.ezp1.harvard.edu where you replace the italic part by what you normally see when you go to fulltext websites. No when you load the page you will very briefly see the address change of the script before changing to the final address http://mekentosj.com. Some examples of urls for other instutes are:

Harvard University: http://ezp1.harvard.edu/login?url=%@
MIT: https://libproxy.mit.edu/cgi-bin/ezpauth?url=%@
Washington University: https://portforward.lib.washington.edu/ … in1?url=%@
University of Queensland: http://ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/login?url=%@

harry491 · 2007-05-20 19:15:45

You may not need to ask a system administrator. If you search for the name of your school and "ezproxy," it may come up.

mek · 2007-06-07 09:12:50

Great tip, don't forget to add the %@ part to the url you get/find. It should we placed where normally the papers would fill in the url. Check out the post above for some examples.

mek · 2007-06-24 06:31:18

Jhb just reported the ezproxy for columbia university:

http://arugula.cc.columbia.edu:2048/login?url=%@

toddknutson · 2007-07-04 08:29:51

Hey gang,

My Institute's librarians are resistant to giving me the ezproxy server address but I have a potential workaround/ workflow for those of us without that proxy server address.

I just do all my article searching and browsing from Safari. This way I can access my library's full-content (by entering my University's username and password). When I reach an article's full text webpage, I use the "Papers" bookmarklet (install by choosing Help Center from the Help menu, then choose Topic from the menu bar, and then click on install bookmarklet) to open that webpage in Papers. Then I click "download pdf" from that journal's site and the PDF goes directly into Papers. Then you will still have to "match" the PDF with the correct PubMed metadata manually.

Good luck.

mek · 2007-07-04 09:48:33

Hi todd,

Great tip, however if you're certain that your institute does use ezproxy it would be a shame not to use it. Perhaps you can post a request here and name your institution so others can help you.

toddknutson · 2007-07-04 13:09:26

Sure, I'm at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) USA. If I hear back from my library tech support, I'll be sure to post my EZproxy address.

Thanks!

mek · 2007-07-04 13:20:42

Hi Todd,

Did you try the following url in the proxy field of the preferences?
https://ezproxy.mnsu.edu/login?url=%@

Edit: Ah, I see this one is from minnesota state university, so probably not the one you are looking for.

mek · 2007-07-04 13:35:12

Todd, did you try the trick in the first post of this topic. Search an article in nature on pubmed and follow the link to the fulltext article, you should now see the ezproxy url come by for a split second...

toddknutson · 2007-07-05 11:37:54

Hey Mek,

I tried that, but it goes pretty fast. I'm in the process of usiing a screen capture video to see if I can slow it down and see the address. So far, everything I've seen in the addresses do not contain "ezproxy" anywhere. I wonder if there are some proxy servers that dont actually have that in their address?

To be honest, I do most of my research at school and I get all the free articles (through Papers) by being on their network. Also, if I am at home, I can access the school's network through a VPN, which should make everything work (like I'm at school). (but I haven't tried that yet)

Thanks for all the feedback.

Todd

schnuder · 2007-07-22 18:03:04

Proxy for Mt Sinai School of Medicine (NYU)
http://eresources.library.mssm.edu:2048/login?url=%@

jdsimonotto · 2007-08-01 04:35:31

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone happens to know the ezproxy for Cambridge University. One phone call to the library, resulted in 7 phone transfers and no answers. Has anyone had better luck in finding this out?

Regards,
Jennifer

yellowcat · 2007-09-03 04:18:10

EzProxy for Maastricht University (UM):
http://ezproxy.ub.unimaas.nl/login?url=%@

greatsmile · 2007-10-03 16:44:06

Any help on the URL for UPenn?

bv · 2007-11-08 02:35:41

greatsmile wrote:
Any help on the URL for UPenn?

https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?url=%@

hamish · 2007-11-13 16:32:07

University of Melbourne?

I've tried http://ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/login?url=%@

but doesnt seem to be working....

sportsmedjosh · 2007-11-14 21:29:17

If anyone can help me find the proxy and get my papers set up to work the way it should with authentication and library proxy, I would gladly Paypal some funds to who can help me. I could use either of the following Brown university (www.brown.edu) or University of Rhode Island (www.uri.edu). If you get it working please post here and if it works I will paypal you.

tkn1972 · 2007-11-15 10:13:35

Proxy for Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA

http://ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/login?url=%@

sportsmedjosh · 2007-11-16 17:26:00

Brown University
https://revproxy.brown.edu/login?url=%@

sanandak · 2007-11-22 18:19:21

The ezproxy server for Penn State University is

ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu - I think.

In a browser window (within Papers or in Firefox) I can browse to, e.g.,
http://ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/login … wledge.com
and I am redirected to an authentication page and then to the Web Of Science...

However, putting that into the Sources tab of preferences (with url=%@ in place of isi...), doesn't let me use the Web Of Science "Repositories" search page within Papers. When I do a search I get "Access Denied Your system failed to Authenticate with Web of Science"

Any help appreciated.
Sridhar.

cpearce · 2007-11-29 14:15:31

that proxy seems to work for me on pubmed, but not web of science - keep getting the "canot parse the XML data". is anyone getting web of science to work?

hamish wrote:
University of Melbourne?

I've tried http://ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/login?url=%@

but doesnt seem to be working....

zedboy · 2007-12-01 11:41:44

sanandak wrote:
The ezproxy server for Penn State University is

ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu - I think.

Any help appreciated.
Sridhar.

You are correct on the URL, however, the WOS plugin does not seem to support EzProxy authentication at this time. You'll only be able to do it from on campus (though I haven't tried yet, it should work).

Unfortunately, IST doesn't seem to provide a Full Tunnel option for connecting to the VPN, which would also work around the problem. But it's possible your department does, if they run their own server.

I really hope they add the support in the plug-in soon.

zedboy · 2007-12-01 11:59:35

sanandak wrote:
The ezproxy server for Penn State University is

ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu - I think.

[...]
Any help appreciated.
Sridhar.

I've found a work around for getting it to work from home.

First, you need to connect to the University wide VPN, then you need to configure the system to use a proxy. You can access that under the Network panel in Systems Preferences. Add an http proxy that points to proxy.aset.psu.edu on port 8080.

I would not advise leaving it connected this way all the time – since *all* your web traffic will be routed through campus, and probably logged. But if you configure it as a "Network Location" then you can switch back and forth relatively painlessly when you need to use Papers.

Hope this helps!

bderenzi · 2007-12-02 15:29:11

In the original thread, the third one is actually the University of Washington (not Washington University in St. Louis). The link is also incorrect (I imagine it's old). Here is the correct one for the University of Washington (Seattle):

http://offcampus.lib.washington.edu/login?url=%@

It will redirect you to login with your UWNetID.

Brian

imnotjesus · 2007-12-04 18:50:23

can someone help me set up the proxy for Rutgers?

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