Access from Home
The digital services of the University Library are available to all registered users within the Ruhr-Universität campus network. You need a LoginID to access the electronic resources.
RUB students and employees can also use the electronic resources licensed by the University Library (e-books, e-journals, databases) from their home Internet connection using their LoginID and password. This is possible via a VPN connection (VPN = Virtual Private Network) or via Shibboleth.
Access via VPN
To access the University Library's electronic media from outside the campus network, you must connect to the campus network via VPN using your computer, notebook or smartphone.
What is VPN?
The abbreviation VPN stands for "Virtual Private Network" and describes encrypted remote access to campus applications and shared resources without the persons accessing them having to be on the RUB campus. Put simply, a VPN makes the network believe that your computer is located on campus.
After configuring and starting the client, you will be asked for your LoginID and password. Once you have entered these, the VPN connection is established. As the number of simultaneous VPN connections is limited, it is important to terminate the VPN connection immediately when it is no longer required.
What do you need?
- the OpenVPN software an the RUBvpn configuration suitable for your device
Please note: After configuring and starting the VPN client, you will be asked for your LoginID and the corresponding password. Please use your LoginID with the extension ".bib" for the connection (example: obermxsp.bib). As the number of simultaneous VPN connections is limited, it is important to terminate the VPN connection immediately when it is no longer required
Do you need help with the installation?
- On the RUB IT.SERVICES website you will find step-by-step instructions for each system.
- For legal reasons, external access to licensed services of the University Library is blocked for emeriti and alumni, although exceptions can be made for emeriti in justified cases. Please contact IT.SERVICES if you wish to continue using the VPN tunnel..
- Please note: Apple's Safari browser often prevents the license from being validated even if the connection is correct. We advise against using this browser.
Access via Shibboleth
Some of the electronic resources licensed by the University Library can be used by RUB members from home not only via the VPN tunnel. Alternatively, you can authenticate yourself using Shibboleth and the LoginID.
If you click on one of the links, you will - depending on the provider - either be directed to the login screen of our Shibboleth server, or you must first select "German Higher Education and Research" and then "Ruhr-Universität Bochum" from a pull-down menu and then log in.
So far, Shibboleth access has been set up for the electronic services listed below:
- ACM Digital Library
- Alexander Street
- American Chemical Society
- American College of Physicians
- American Institute of Physics
- American Medical Association
- American Physical Society (APS)
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Annual Reviews
- Beck eLibrary
- Beltz s. Content-Select
- BioOne
- Bloomsbury
- BMJ Zeitschriften
- Brill Zeitschriften und E-Books
- Cambridge Zeitschriften und E-Books
- Campus s. Content-Select
- ClinicalKey Student
- Company of Biologists
- Content-Select
- DeGruyter
- Duncker & Humblot
- EBSCO-Datenbanken
- Elsevier Ebooks zur Medizin (Einmalige Registrierung erforderlich)
- Elsevier Zeitschriften
- Emerald Zeitschriften
- Erich Schmidt Verlag
- F.A.Z.-Bibliotheksportal
- Hanser eLibrary
- Herder s. Content-Select
- Hogrefe e-Books
- Hogrefe e-Zeitschriften
- IBISWorld
- Ingenta
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IOP Science Journals
- ISI Web of Knowledge
- JoVe
- JSTOR
- Karger Zeitschriften und E-Books
- Kluwer Law Online
- Kohlhammer s. Content-Select
- Kortext
- Meiner
- MGG online
- Mohr Siebeck
- Narr elibrary
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Nomos
- OECD
- Optical Society of America
- OVID Datenbanken
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford University Press
- Project MUSE
- Rockefeller University Press
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Sage Zeitschriften
- Scholars elibrary s. Content-Select
- Science
- SIAM
- Springer Link
- Statista
- Steiner Verlag
- Taylor & Francis E-Books
- Taylor & Francis Zeitschriften
- Tectum eLibrary
- Thieme Zeitschriften und E-Books
- University of Chicago Press
- University of Toronto Press
- utb studi E-Books
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- Verlag Österreich
- Waxmann s. Content-Select
- Wiley Zeitschriften und E-Books
- wiso
- World Scientific Publishing
Privacy Notice:
Online resources licensed by the University Library of Ruhr University Bochum are subject to data processing and data protection policies set out by the respective providers of said resources. The University Library neither has any influence over said providers’ processing of Personal Identifiable Information, nor over the contents and/or availability of online resources or external websites. Further information can be found in the privacy policy of the University Library.