Using the Library from Home

You can access a large number of electronic resources off campus if you are affiliated to the TU Dortmund and hold an Uni Account. For this authentication you need a VPN client or you use the institutional login (Shibboleth), which we can now offer for most publishers. Without being affiliated to the TU Dortmund, you have no access off campus.

Access to Ebooks, Electronic Journals, Databases

TU Dortmund Members
- Employees of the TU Dortmund:
  - Access via VPN (Pulse Secure): Download and Manual
- Students and employees of the TU Dortmund:
  - VPN for students (Forcepoint - Download and Manual)
  - Alternative for VPN: Access via Shibboleth for the following publishers (Manual):
    ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
    
    ACS (American Chemical Society)
    
    AIP (American Institute of Physics)
    
    Alexander Street Press (Database: 'Fashion online')
    
    Annual Reviews
    
    ASM (American Society for Microbiology)
    
    Bloomsbury (E-Books)
    
    Brill
    
    Cambridge University Press
    
    Content Select (Beltz Juventa, transcript, Waxmann ... )
    
    de Gruyter
    
    Duncker & Humblot (eJournals)
    
    EBSCOhost (Databases and E-Books)
    
    Elsevier
    
    Emerald
    
    FAZ
    
    Hanser
    
    Hogrefe
    
    IEEE Xplore
    
    IOP (Institute of Physics)
    
    John Benjamins
    
    JSTOR
    
    Karger
    
    Linkedin (Videotutorials)
    
    MGG online
    Mohr Siebeck
    
    Narr
    
    Nature
    
    Nomos Verlag
    
    OECD-ebooks/journals
    
    Proquest (Databases: Harpers Bazaar Archive, Italian Vogue Archive, Women's Wear Daily Archive, US Vogue Archive)
    
    Royal Society of Chemistry
    
    Sage (eJournals)
    
    Sage (E-Books)
    
    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
    
    Springer
    
    Statista
    
    Steiner Verlag
    
    Taylor & Francis (E-Books)
    
    Taylor & Francis (eJournals)
    
    Thieme
    
    University of Chicago Press
    
    UTB Studi-e-books
    
    Vahlen
    
    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
    
    Web of Science
    
    Wiley
    
    Wiso
    
    World Scientific
    
    WTI (Databases 'Tecfinder': Tema, RSWB Plus, ...)
    Registration (for example 'Springer'):
    
    » 'Log in'
    
    » 'log in via Shibboleth or Athens'
    
    » 'find your institution (via Shibboleth)'
    
    » 'Technische Universität Dortmund'
    
    » log in with your TU-Account
    
    ... deGruyter (for example 'Tanzimprovisation : Geschichte - Theorie - Verfahren - Vermittlung'):
    
    » https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/514074
    
    » login in (top right)
    
    » select 'Einloggen' and 'Anmelden über Ihre Institution'
    
    » select 'Technische Universität Dortmund' (quickest: search for 'dortmund')
    
    » login with your TU-Account
    
    » call the title again: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/514074
    
    » via 'Inhalt' you get to the single chapters / via 'pdf' to the whole e-book (Note: the whole e-book is not offered for all titles)
    
    Descriptions may vary: the link to login is sometimes called 'institutional login' or 'login via your institution'. Sometimes TU Dortmund is listed as 'Universität Dortmund', 'Technische Universität Dortmund' or 'Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund'.
- FAQ: No access to full text despite active VPN - possible reasons:
  - Simply a problem of sequence?
    You need to connect to your VPN client first and then access the full text.
    
    If you ever failed to follow this order, you would have to
    
    restart your browser (alternative: you can also delete the cookies set by the publisher)
    
    connect to the VPN client
    
    and then call up the full text.
    
    Background: when accessing the full text, most publishers set cookies to record access permissions. Shutting down the browser deletes them and then creates them again, this time taking the VPN connection into view.
  - Do you use the default configuration of the VPN client Pulse Secure or do you use an internal VPN client of your faculty?
    
    How do I recognize an internal VPN client?
    You can find out by right-clicking on the Pulse Secure icon in the SysTray (lower edge of the screen) and selecting "Open Pulse Secure". The "Server URL" should then be "vpn.tu-dortmund.de", without any other additions.
    
    Background: with an internal VPN client you can only access resources on servers of the TU Dortmund - but our e-books are usually located on the servers of the publishers or at other providers. (List: 'Internal profiles' of the faculties at the TU Dortmund)
  - Are you using a browser plugin that could potentially interfere with the VPN client?
    
    Please try the call with another browser or e.g. with the private mode of Firefox. Or temporarily disable your browser plug-ins.
    For the 'Ad Guardian Plus' you can also deactivate the HTTPS traffic (s. Manual).
  - You can't call a specific ebook?
    
    Also possible: the ebook has accidentally not been unlocked for use or the ebook you are looking for has mistakenly been added to the list of licensed titles - please send us an email and tell us the title you are looking for. We will contact the publisher.
  - Alternatives to Pulse Secure VPN Client
    
    The VPN client Pulse Secure is currently somewhat overloaded and outages may occur. Employees of TU Dortmund University can also use the VPN for students (Forcepoint) or try to authenticate yourself via Shibboleth ('Institutional Login') to authenticate for use.
  - Since Feb 16, 2021 there is a new version of the VPN client Pulse Secure (version 9.1.11) - download.
    
    Note: you can determine the version of your VPN client by opening the Pulse Secure window via the corresponding icon at the bottom of the screen. Via "Open Pulse Secure" you can find the version number of your VPN client under 'Help' and 'About'.
  - Is this a journal of the publisher 'Elsevier' (platform: ScienceDirect)?
    
    Please note our blog post Elsevier-Zeitschriften ab 1.1.2017.
  - Do you still use a 2nd VPN client or comparable like Wireguard?
    
    You would have to switch off the other VPN client while using Pulse Secure or Forcepoint - this can also cause interference.
  - Which IP address are you using?
    
    Please connect via Pulse Secure or Forcepoint and then go to https://ct.de/ip in your browser. The page will show you the IP address you are currently using - the address should start with 129.217.
  - Was your login to the VPN client successful?
    
    The Pulse Secure icon in the SysTray (bottom of the screen) should have a green arrow when the connection is active - the Forcepoint icon should have a green background.
  - other possible causes:
    [VPN - Mac OS] Despite being connected, I cannot access content from some publishers (IPv6) .
    
    [VPN - Forcepoint] Despite Windows client, the VPN for students access does not work.
    
    Please also note the other entries in the FAQ "Access to the network" of the ITMC.
- Access conditions of individual journals
  The journals
  - Bauen im Bestand : B + B
  - Bauen mit Holz
  - Baugewerbe
  - Textiles : the quarterly magazine of the Textile Institute
  - Wettbewerbe aktuell
  - Wissenschaftsmanagement
  are password protected. To find out about login data and access requirements, click on the Username und Passwort file.
Non-members of TU Dortmund University (External users)
- Everyone not affiliated to the TU Dortmund has access to our licenced electronic resources within the library at our computer workstations or via ethernet with his or her own notebook - no access off campus.

Questions?

general: Reference Department
electronic resources in your particular field of study: Subject Librarians

01.03.21