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 ====== Journal access for UofT users ======
-(A) For academic journals and books, your UofT "T-Card" serves as your library card. We have a good Engineering Science library on the 2nd floor of Sandford Fleming Building, and your T-Card is valid for borrowing at all UofT libraries - notably Gerstein Science Library on the east side of King's College Circle and Robarts Library at Wellesley and St. George; unfortunately the libraries are currently (Fall 2020) closed due to COVID, and EngSci library has major renovations under way during this closing.
+For academic journals and books, your UofT "T-Card" serves as your library card. We have a good Engineering Science library on the 2nd floor of Sandford Fleming Building, and your T-Card is valid for borrowing at all UofT libraries - notably Gerstein Science Library on the east side of King's College Circle and Robarts Library at Wellesley and St. George; unfortunately the libraries are currently (Fall 2020) closed due to COVID, and EngSci library has major renovations under way during this closing.
 https://engineering.library.utoronto.ca/
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 https://search.library.utoronto.ca/index?SearchFilter=206416
-You can access journals and e-books online by verifying your connection to UofT. If working on campus, any UofT internet connection can simply visit the journal website and will automatically be recognized as a subscriber to any electronic journal UofT gets. The IEEE Xplore site offers this subscriber recognition for UofT.
+You can access journals and e-books online by verifying your affiliation with UofT. If working on campus, any UofT internet connection including UofT wifi can simply visit the journal website and will automatically be recognized as a subscriber to any electronic journal UofT gets. The [[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp|IEEE Xplore]] site offers this subscriber recognition for UofT.
 Since most of us are working remotely most or all of the time, you'll need to get familiar with ways to access these 'subscriber only' resources from off campus. There are several options for this - use whichever you find most convenient:
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 ===== Remote session to on-campus PC =====
-If there is a computer on campus assigned for your use, you can connect to it remotely, and use the browser on the on-campus computer to visit journal websites as a subscriber. For an on-campus Windows PC, simply make sure that "Allow Remote Desktop" is enabled, then use Remote Desktop Connection on your off-campus computer to connect to the on-campus computer. PCs on ECE's network are protected by ECE's departmental firewall, so for this type of connection you'll need to use the ECE VPN any time you want to use Windows RDP to reach a PC inside of ECE.
+If there is a computer on campus assigned for your use, you can connect to it remotely, and use the browser on the on-campus computer to visit journal websites as a subscriber. For an on-campus Windows PC, simply make sure that "Allow Remote Desktop" is enabled, then use Remote Desktop Connection on your off-campus computer to connect to the on-campus computer. For Mac OS or Linux PCs on campus, you can configure other remote access software specific to that PC's O/S, such as Apple Remote Desktop or VNC, or connect over SSH. PCs on ECE's network are protected by ECE's departmental firewall, so for any of these types of connection you'll need to use the ECE VPN any time you want to use Windows RDP to reach a PC inside of ECE.
 You can also run software such as MATLAB on the on-campus computer, leave it running, and it will continue even if you disconnect from an RDP connection to it. When you reconnect the running programs and open documents will still be open.
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 ===== UTORvpn internet gateway to journal sites =====
-(B) On your own device - PC, Mac, or tablet - you can connect to the University's central VPN called UTORvpn (this is a different service than ECE VPN). The UofT VPN serves as an internet gateway, so with UTORvpn connected, visiting journal websites gets you subscriber access just as for an on-campus connection.  The UTORvpn uses the single-sign-on system of UTORid and password. This site has links with details on how to configure UTORvpn on each of the different operating systems it supports:
+On your own device - PC, Mac, or tablet - you can connect to the University's central VPN called UTORvpn (this is a different service than ECE VPN). The UofT VPN serves as an internet gateway, so with UTORvpn connected from off campus, visiting journal websites gets you subscriber access just as for an on-campus connection.  The UTORvpn uses the single-sign-on system of UTORid and password. This site has links with details on how to configure UTORvpn on each of the different operating systems it supports:
-https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/ic-faq-categories/utorvpn
+https://isea.utoronto.ca/services/vpn/utorvpn/users/
 ===== UT Library my.access proxy service =====
-(C) In a browser on your own computer connected off campus, you can also use the library's web proxy service without connecting to UTORvpn (e.g. if you are a guest on the computer, and can't install the Cisco AnyConnect VPN software). This page shows how to use the library proxy service for individual journal web pages:
+In a browser on your own computer connected off campus, you can also use the library's web proxy service without connecting to UTORvpn (e.g. if you are a guest on the computer and can't install the Cisco AnyConnect VPN software). This page shows how to use the library proxy service for individual journal web pages:
 https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/node/21729
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 ===== Browzine library browsing app =====
-(D)There is a user-friendly app for accessing journals through university library rights called "Browzine." available at https://browzine.com/ You can access it in any browser on a desktop or laptop; or, on a tablet, in either Android or iOS, you can install the Browzine app.
+There is a user-friendly app for accessing journals through university library rights called "Browzine." available at https://browzine.com/ You can access it in any browser on a desktop or laptop; or, on a tablet, in either Android or iOS, you can install the Browzine app.
 You configure Browzine to know that your university library is University of Toronto. It will send you to the single-sign-on to verify your UTORid and password (it can save this so you don't need to keep entering the password each time.) Once logged in, you can search for journals by title, then add favorite journals to your "shelf." You can then open the journal to see a list of issues, open an issue to see the TOC, and browse and read articles from there.
 ===== Google Scholar setting 'Library Links' =====
-(E) In any browser, you can configure the https://scholar.google.com Google Scholar page to know what library you are linked to. On the Google Scholar home page, in the menu (striped icon) choose "Settings" In the Settings screen, click "Library Links" in the left side list. Then under "Show library access links for," type "University of Toronto" and check both the UT Library links that appear:
+In any browser, you can configure the https://scholar.google.com Google Scholar page to know what library you are linked to. On the Google Scholar home page, in the menu (striped icon at the top left) choose "Settings." In the Settings screen, in the left side list, click "Library Links." Then under "Show library access links for," type "University of Toronto" and check both the UT Library links that appear:
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+With Google Scholar set up with UofT Libraries linked, any search result that has an electronic version available through our library subscriptions should display a new link to the right of the result, saying "Get it! (UTL)"
+Once you complete the UTORid single-sign-on one time, these links will then open the linked result directly without prompting again. The Library Link setting is PC-specific and per-browser (you'd need to set it up once in each browser on each computer you use.) The single-sign-on access may only persist for that browser session -- either rebooting or quitting the browser and restarting it may require you to do single-sign-on once for the first "Get it!" link you follow in the new browser session.
-With Google Scholar set with UofT Libraries linked, any search result that has an electronic version available through our library subscriptions should display a new link to the right of the result, saying "Get it! (UTL)"
+====== Try several! ======
-Once you complete the UTORid single-sign-on one time, these links will then open the linked result directly without prompting again. The Library Link setting is PC-specific and per-browser (you'd need to set it up once in each browser on each computer you use.) The single-sign-on access may only persist for that browser session -- either rebooting or quitting the browser and restarting it may require you to do single-sign-on once for the new browser session.
 As you can see there are plenty of alternatives for taking advantage of UofT's extensive collections and journal subscriptions. I suggest you go through setting up at least two or three of these that interest you, and see which route is the most comfortable for your work flow. You may find two or more of these prove helpful in different stages of your work.
-- Jim