Accessing Library Resources Off-Campus at The University of Alabama
Channel: University of Alabama Libraries
Date: 2018-09-25

The University of Alabama Libraries provides on- or off-campus access to our electronic subscriptions and collections to students, faculty, and other members of the University community. This quick video covers how and where to log in for access to the search tools and databases available through the Libraries website, libraries.ua.edu. 

University of Alabama Libraries: libraries.ua.edu

More Resources and Services for Distance Students: https://www.lib.ua.edu/using-the-library/distance-education/

How to Set Up A VPN at UA: https://oit.ua.edu/service/vpn/

Transcript: 

Hi, my name is Jon, I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama. 

If you're off-campus and want to access full-text articles, e-books, and databases at The University of Alabama libraries, you'll need to log in with your mybama username and password. This quick video demonstrates how to do this when using our main finding tool, SCOUT, our electronic journals and our individual databases. Start by going to libraries.ua.edu

When you enter Scout from the quick menu, a bar at the top of the page will prompt you to log in for full access. This will direct you to a sign in page. Use your mybama username and password. You should be redirected to your search and have full-text access to the resources. 

If you're looking for specific electronic journals and books from the E-Journals page, the login process looks and works the same way as SCOUT. 

You'll need your mybama credentials to access most of our individual databases as well, but the sign-on may look a little bit different. The Databases link on the home page opens the A-Z databases list. Launching a database will direct you to a mybama login page. After that, you should be good to go. 

As a sidenote, even when you're logged in to use SCOUT or many of our databases, you'll still see a "Log In" prompt at the top of the screen. This usually refers to accounts you can create within the database if you'd like to use certain advanced features or save certain preferences; these optional services are separate from your myBama account. 

If you have problems logging in or accessing resources, go to the Library Help tab on the front page and select Report a Login Problem; we'll try to resolve the issue ASAP. For a handful of our databases, you may need to connect through Bama's Virtual Private Network, or VPN. If you need to do this, see the link in this video's description for how to set this up. 

That's all for now, if you have any questions you can call us, text us, or visit ask.lib.ua.edu to ask-a-librarian.