Off-site access to electronic resources with OpenAthens
You can access most of the e-resources you find on Scout whilst off campus by using the OpenAthens institutional login available on most major journal publisher sites.
Your OpenAthens credentials are the same ID and password you use to sign into RVC online resources like webmail and Learn.
On the OpenAthens site, click the log-in button top right, then the top link to Login to MyAthens, Choose your Institution (Royal Veterinary College), you should then be prompted to sign into your RVC Outlook/Office account with your RVC email address and password; you may also be asked to approve your log in via multi factor authentication (MFA):
Even if you have logged in using this method, you will likely need to 'authenticate' again when trying to via an article on a journal page. Below are some screenshots of some of the major journal publishers, showing where and how to do so:
BMJ
BMJ’s login menu has a direct link for OpenAthens. Just click it and find the Royal Vet College on the following page to login via your institution:
Cambridge
For Cambridge University Press journals, click the login link and then the bottom link for Log in with Shibboleth or Athens:
On the proceeding screen, click the link for the OpenAthens login page:
Elsevier/ScienceDirect
To view the full text of a Science Direct article in the library’s collection (in other words, an article you can find on Scout), click the Sign in link in the top right corner of the page, followed by the Open Athens sign in link on the subsequent page.
Oxford University Press
Sage
Taylor & Francis
Web of Science
Web of Science (previously ‘Web of Knowledge’) Sign in instructions
If you are logging onto the Web of Science website for the first time, off-campus, please follow these instructions:
1. Log onto RVC Learn (https://learn.rvc.ac.uk/), and on the Homepage along the top, click on ‘Online Services’, and select SCOUT from the dropdown.
2. From the SCOUT Homepage in the top right hand corner, click on the link to ‘Databases’:
3. You may be asked to fill in the following Authentication. Use your RVC Learn Username and Password:
4. Scroll down the page of Databases, and click on ‘Web of Science off-campus access’:
5. You may be asked to sign into OpenAthens. Go to ‘Find your organisation’ and start to type in Royal Veterinary College which will then appear at the bottom. Select this.
6. Sign into RVC systems using your RVC Learn Username and Password
7. This will take you to the Web of Science home page where you will find the ‘Journal Citation Reports’ tab at the top of the page. Click on to this. (Be patient, as this may take a minute or two!)
8. You should see the following Sign in page. Select UK Federation from the dropdown under ‘Institutional (Shibboleth) Sign In’.
9. You should see the page below. Sign in by typing in ‘Royal Veterinary College’:
10. You should now arrive at this page below:
(Again, be patient, as this may take a few minutes to load!)
Wiley
Wiley is more straight-forward: on the article page, click the Login link > Institutional Login:
