Good work, you’re online and up late looking for peer-reviewed, authoritative information.

And then you encounter a pop up window asking you to log in for access. Maybe looks something like this:

UofB login via Shibboleth screenshot of pop up asking you to log in

It might also say “UK Access Management Federation” or “UK Higher Education log in”.

Following the links from one of those will prompt you to choose ‘University of Brighton’ from a drop down menu, and then request your University of Brighton Username and password.  If we subscribe to the resources, you should be given access. Sometimes you *have to* enter the database by going through our online library. and enter the article title, or the name of the journal/magazine etc in the search box.

Lots, but not all, of our subscribed-to content can be found through the OneSearch interface of the online library (which looks like this)

On that same page, have a shufti around our Resources A-Z section, which lists resources and databases by name so you can browse each one. You also go directly into BOB if you want radio programmes (in several languages even!), films, and television.

Top tip though, is if you have found a citation of a chapter, a journal article, or a newspaper article and you want to see if you can access the full text – simply head over to our Library Catalogue webpages and enter the name of the book, or name of the journal/newspaper and hit Search.  If the University subscribes to it then you can follow the links to the content and you’ll be prompted to log in.  This is the most direct way to get to the full text off-campus, instead of searching Google for the article (although you might find it that way too).

Please remember to ask the staff at St Peters House Library if you get stuck trying to access online information when off-campus, as we can advise by email, or on the phone so please get in touch as it’s what we’re here for.

AskSPH@Brighton.ac.uk or call us on 01273 643220