On July 1st, 2024, a new interface will be used for EBSCO databases. This new UI will provide many new and exciting features!
If you would like to place a WorldShare request, please find the link under Access options:
Current TIU users including faculty, students, and staff can access most e-resources both on and off campus.
Open Athens Login is used via MicroSoft sign-in page. When accessing through the library catalog, you will be asked to choose the login type first. Upon choosing TIU Users, you will be prompted to enter your TIU login credentials. Please remember to enter the entire TIU email address, including "@tiu.edu".
EZProxy login is used for some Library e-resources, which is more for off-campus access. From May 2024, you will not be asked to sign in again, if you are already signed in for other resources at the time of access. If not, you will be asked to sign in through the same MicroSoft page as above.
IP authenticated access is used when you are accessing the resource while you are on campus. This type of access often allows users go directly to a supplier's website, bypassing the University Login process. If you are off campus, it is recommended to follow the linking path correctly and also authenticate through either Open Athens or EZProxy method, as shown in the above. For login help, please see here.
It is always best to access e-resources through TIU library catalog or our AZ lists, as this will ensure that the resource provider knows that you are from Trinity International University. If a resource has specific login instructions this will also be displayed. Your TIU email address is required for access to e-resources.
If Rolfing Library does not subscribe to the e-journal, database, e-book or streaming video, then you will not be able to get access to this resource. Most e-resources that you will have access to through the TIU library website have been purchased by the university.
There are a lot of electronic resources available through Rolfing Library. Each subscription to each e-journal title is different and the same years will not be available for every title. You will only have access to full-text articles from within the subscription time period. If the article you are looking for falls outside of this period then free access to full-text material will not be available.
E-resources can be available for subscription through several different service providers or publisher sites. Access will only be available to you through the service provider(s) with whom the Library has a subscription. Service providers like ProQuest, Wiley Online Library, EBSCO, etc., provide access to thousands of e-journals but the Library does not subscribe to every title. Just because you may find an e-journal you wish to look at on one of these sites does not mean you will get access through that site.
Some resources may require you to register with them before you can get access. Others may require you to follow a set path once into the resource to get logged in. And there are a small number of resources that may also require a separate username and password (example: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae).
Access to e-resources is provided by Rolfing Library via license agreements with publishers, and the materials provided by publishers are subject to copyright law.
E-resources provided by Rolfing Library are copyright material, subject to copyright law. This means that there are clearly defined limits to the amount of material which can be downloaded or printed from any e-journal or e-book which we license from a publisher.
| e-journals |
You may print or download up to one article from an individual issue of a journal for private study and non-commercial research. Printing or downloading more than this, without the permission of the copyright owner, is an infringement of copyright law. |
| e-books |
You may print or download up to one chapter or 10%, whichever is the greater, for private study and non-commercial research. Printing or downloading more than this, without the permission of the copyright owner, is an infringement of copyright law. |
There may also be additional restrictions to the level of downloading from e-books, depending on limits set by individual publishers and third party suppliers. Where this is the case there will usually be alerts on the publisher or supplier website to indicate how much you can print or download from the e-book.
Systematic downloading of material is generally prohibited by our license agreements with publishers, although this does vary from license to license.
Prohibited activity may include use of robots, spiders, crawlers or other automated downloading programs, or any manual process to systematically search, scrape, extract, deep link or index any of the copyright material.
Publishers carefully monitor use of the material provided via their web sites or platforms, and they will notify us of any mass-downloading activity which their systems detect. When this arises the publisher may block access from specific Trinity International University IP addresses, or they may suspend access to the whole service for all staff and students, until the problem has been resolved.
Most e-journal web sites include a link to the publisher's terms and conditions where consent to copy 'fairly' from an electronic journal may be given by the publisher's license.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you are acting within both the copyright law and the publisher's license terms. Please contact the E-Resources Librarian (e-resources@tiu.edu) if you have any queries about specific e-resources.
