Access on site
The on-line documentary resources (journal, eBooks, data banks), for which the Library has a subscription and the resources acquired within the framework of a national license are accessible on the observatory site from the reading rooms of the Library, and from computers connected to the Observatory network.
Access is governed by the IP address: from any workstation with an IP address of the Observatoire de Paris (excluding Wi-Fi connections), no authentification is required.
Remote access using EZproxy
One can consult the documentary resources on-line by remote access from outside of the Observatoire:
– The Bibliothèque has installed the reverse proxy EZProxy: to access the data banks, journals or electronic books for which the Bibliothèque has a subscription from a workstation outside of the Observatory, you should find the resource required by interrogating the ad hoc page of the Bibliothèque, and then open a session using the LDAP login of the Observatory:
– The configuration of the EZProxy server of the Bibliothèque is defined as a function of the resources offered. No special action need be taken to obtain access, and the navigator need not be changed in any way.
– EZProxy uses cookies during your session, which avoids having to open a new session each time you try a access a different resource. Note that the access to the resources via the EZProxy server will not work if your navigator does not accept cookies. The cookies contain only your session key, and are disactivated as soon as you shut down your navigator. The EZProxy server does keep in memory any personal data, and its operation conforms to the recommendations of the CNIL.
– When you open a session with your LDAP login, you can access all the resources that the library has acquired or for which it has subscriptions, without having to login again. However, your session will terminate automatically after two hours of inactivity or when you shut down your navigator.
– When you access a resource requiring the entry of a user name via EZProxy, the URL shown in the address bar of your navigator.
For example, the url address of the journal Astrophysical Journal is: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X
if one accesses it via EZProxy, the address ishttp://ezproxy.obspm.fr/login?url=http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X
after authentification it becomes http://iopscience.iop.org.ezproxy.obspm.fr/0004-637X
Remote access via the web proxy of the Observatoire
One can still connect to the web proxy of the Observatoire via an SSH tunnel: consult the DIO documentation..
If you have any difficulties in implementing this procedure, contact: admin.sio at obspm.fr