The best way to access licensed electronic resources is through the links to resources on the library website and in the catalog. If you want to use your own bookmarked URLs, this bookmarklet will proxy licensed resources for you.
You may have found a database link from a search engine such as Google or received an email from your favorite database provider in your mailbox. If the url does not contain proxy.mul.missouri.edu it will probably not work for you.
The bookmarklet solves this problem by allowing you to sign in and prove that you are a valid University of Missouri user.
Instructions on installing the bookmarklet in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, & IE can be found here.
Using the Bookmarklet
If you have a database URL in your browser that doesn’t contain proxy.mul.missouri.edu, you can identify yourself as a valid University of Missouri user by clicking on the remote access bookmarklet in your list of bookmarks. This will redirect you to a page where you can login with your username and gain access to licensed content.
Best Practices
The bookmarklet will attempt to proxy any website, whether we license that content or not. If you receive a “Remote Access Error” when you use the bookmarklet on a URL, the most common reasons are: