Any problems ask Dept. Ask at CL Help Desk etc. Some passworded e-jnls are IP address independent and can be accessed remotely, but others are not and can only be accessed at IC sites. Users may have to experiment. Its key features are a 'single sign-on' to multiple resources, together with a distributed management of user accounts.
Every computer has a unique number or IP address.
If database access is IP dependent it means that it can only be accessed on computers whose IP addresses have been registered with the database provider. Some e-journals are IP address independent but require a special username and password.