Virginia Community College
System
Electronic Library Services
Convert Persistent URLS to Ezproxy URLS

All of the licensed databases (VIVA
or VCCS databases) available to our users require that we control
access and restrict it to persons affliated with the VCCS. We
accomplish this by using a proxy server for all off-campus access to
these databases. To engage the proxy server, the URL that
connects the user to the vendor's database must be modified to
include the proxy server information. When you save (bookmark)
a URL for use in a reading list or class assignment, that URL must
also be modified if students are to use those links from
off-campus. This page was designed to help with that
modification. (The
actual change that must be made is explained more fully at the
bottom of this page.)
To engage the off-campus proxy environment, a URL must have a
prefix added that will cause the proxy server to determine if the
user must be authenticated or not. This prefix consists of the
following text:
http://ezproxy.vccs.edu:2048/login?url=
The saved (bookmarked) url is then added after the
"=" For example a link to the Gale "OneFile"
would look like this.
http://ezproxy.vccs.edu:2048/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/viva2_vccs?db=ITOF
