 Hello all. In this video, you will be introduced to CMU libraries to remote access options that ensure your ability to access all of the library's electronic resources while you're off campus. This includes journal articles, ebooks, databases, tools, and more. Before we get started, it is best practice to always access the library's electronic resources using the library's website, especially when working remotely. The main reason for this is that many of these resources require subscriptions and the library's website acts like a portal to all subscription-based content. Okay, let's get started. First, go to the library's website, which is library.cmu.edu. From here, there are several ways to access electronic content. You could search the library's catalog using several of the links below in this section of the page, where you could scroll a bit further to the Quick Links section and access specific databases, e-resources, or tools, journals, and newspapers, or other links that we have set up in this section. Let's take a look at the Connecting from Off Campus Quick Link and click on that. This will take us to a page that explains our two remote access mechanisms, Easy Proxy and the Virtual Private Network, also called the VPN. Now, most electronic resources use Easy Proxy authentication. It's as simple as finding your resource of interest and entering your Android ID and CMU password when prompted with the CMU login page. Let's take a look at a quick example. Here is a listing for the Business Source Premier database that we got to from the databases, e-resources, and tools Quick Link that we saw earlier. When I click on that link, I am immediately prompted with the CMU login page. I simply enter my Android ID and password, and I am immediately taken into this resource. So once I enter my information, I should be taken to the database landing page, which looks like this, and I have successfully entered. Okay, let's return to the off campus page on the library's website and talk about the VPN for a little bit. There are a handful of resources that only work with the VPN. The VPN can also be used if you are experiencing any access issues with resources that aren't working properly with the Easy Proxy. Unfortunately, this can happen. So you can think of the VPN as a backup remote access mechanism. The VPN requires downloading the Cisco Any Connect application software and directions for those are listed here. Once the application is downloaded and set up on your computer, make sure to connect using the full VPN option, which acts as the library's specific VPN. Our resources will not work when using the general or campus VPN, so it's important to remember this step. Okay, let's demo connecting to the full VPN now. To download the VPN software, Cisco Any Connect software, you should get some sort of desktop icon that looks like this. If we hover over that we can see there's the option to connect. When we select connect will be taken to the VPN window. It defaults to the full to the campus VPN, usually, and that's the one that we do not want to connect to. Rather we want to switch this to the full VPN. So enter our password again. And after we enter that information, we should get some sort of notification that we've actually connected to the VPN. Now we can proceed with access and resources. So I did a quick search here for a particular article on consumer product behavior and I want to access this particular article here, consumer risk reduction behavior and new product purchases. Now that I'm connected to the VPN, I can access this article pretty quickly. I could either use the download PDF option or the available online option to access the article. If I click on download PDF, it should take me to the actual PDF of the article. It could take a few seconds, but here we see I've been connected to the article of interest. I hope that this video is helpful. If you have any questions, please contact us by using the various options on the ask us section of the library's website. And here's the URL for the ask us section. Thank you and have a great day.