Off-Campus Access

Mobile Apps

Working Off-Campus

If you want to access materials off campus, you will need to install the Virtual Private Network (VPN), a free program on your laptop or desktop computer that connects to the Yale network. This way, you will still have access to databases and journals Yale is subscribed to. To download VPN, visit this website.

1.     Download and install the VPN client software, called AnyConnect.
2.     Each time you want to use Yale resources, e.g.  library e-journals or databases, start the AnyConnect program.
3.     Login using your NetID and password in the AnyConnect window and click "connect."

Full instructions here, visit this website.

If you have any questions, contact the Help Desk at 203-432-9000 or email helpdesk@yale.edu or contact your local support person.

Yale University Library – Mobile Apps For Research on the Go!

Most of these will require the VPN app to gain access to the databases. Download the VPN below and see your personal librarian for help with authentication keys for apps like EBSCOhost and Gale/Access My Library!

VPN (To Access Content Yale Is Subscribed To) 

Click the buttons below to download the mobile applications or view the mobile sites.

VPN (Cisco AnyConnect)

Arts and Humanities

ARTstor
NAXOS Music Library

General Category (useful for everyone)

Annual Reviews Mobile (Science and Social Science)
BluePrint – release jobs from IOS device (must be connected to YaleSecure wireless network)
Cambridge Journals
Ebrary on Bluefire Reader
EBSCO Host
Encyclopedia Britannica
EndNote Mobile
Gale
Hathi Trust Digital Library Mobile Site
JSTOR Mobile site
LexisNexis Academic
Lynda
MIT Press Journals
PressReader (app for news subscriptions)
RefScan
Refworks Mobile
WorldCat

Social Science

HEIN
Library of Congress – Congressional Record
Psychiatry Online
Social Science Research Network
The Chronicle of Higher Education (iPad only)

Science and Medicine

American Chemical Society (peer-reviewed journals, etc.)
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association, Psychotherapy Journal
Arxiv Mobile (Open-access pre-prints in physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology)
BioOne
IEEE Xplore
GeoScienceWorld Mobile
iResearch American Institute of Physics
Medline University
Mendeley
Nature Mobile
Proquest
PubMed Mobile Android App (biomedical articles and life science journals)
Royal Society of Chemistry
Safari Books Online (Java/Web Development, Game Programming, etc.)
Science360 for iPad (National Science Foundation)
SciFinder (Part of the American Chemical Society)
SpringerLink (Scientific database for EBooks and journals)