Services and databases to which the Library offers free access by subscription or license can be used from computers connected to the university network (devices in the Main Library and branch libraries, in the faculties of TUL, in dormitories, etc.) and from reader’s devices which are connected to EDUROAM wireless network. Remote access is also possible via a VPN.
VPN
VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a type of secure tunnel on the Internet. The purpose of this type of connection is to provide users of a given corporate network with secure (encrypted) access to the resources of the corporate network from any geographic locations outside the corporation and forced to transmit data through untrusted networks of third-party operators. An encrypted tunnel is set up from the user's workstation to the VPN hub which is located inside the corporate network. In our case, the corporation is the university.
Once the tunnel is set up, the user is given the university's IP address and continues to have the impression of being inside the university network. In this way, being outside the university, he/she/they get(s) access to all internal resources that are not normally visible from outside the university network.
The Computer Centre provides 2 types of software for secure access to the University's internal resources: Pulse Secure and OpenVPN.
Source: Uczelniane Centrum Informatyczne, VPN, online https://uci.p.lodz.pl/openvpn (access: 06.07.2023).
Alternative sources of access to selected services and databases
Access to selected databases and services (including AccessEngineering, EBSCO, ProQuest) is available from outside Lodz University of Technology network also through individual accounts.
Information on access to Elsevier (ScienceDirect), Reaxys, Scopus, SciFinder, Springer, Web of Science, Wiley is available on the Virtual Library of Science website.
License conditions
The use of electronic sources – both within the university network and remotely – involves compliance with license and copyright terms.
Users are allowed to:
- search and browse databases and services;
- print and copy the retrieved records, articles or text fragments only for personal, scientific and teaching purposes.
However, users are forbidden to:
- download texts automatically as well as inexplicably large number of abstracts or articles and complete issues of a given journal title;
- use of copied data for any secondary distribution.
Databases, journals and electronic books (their contents, including abstracts) are protected by copyright. Violation of the above licensing arrangements may result in blocking of access both for users violating these arrangements and for the whole university.