Tufts Libraries OpenAthens Support Guide

Change your EZproxy Links to OpenAthens-compatible Links

EZproxy Link Transformer

Use our automated tool that helps you transform your EZproxy links to OpenAthens-compatible links.

Manually change your EZproxy links

If you wish to change your links manually, follow the instructions below.

Resources that use one of the standard proxy prefixes

If your link starts with one of these standard ezproxy prefixes (either http or https):

  • https://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?Location=
  • http://ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/login?url=
  • https://login.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/login?url=
  • http://ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/login?auth=tufts&login=
  • https://login.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/login?auth=tufts&login=

Replace them with the resources prefix

https://resources.libraries.tufts.edu/?Location=

Examples:

Old URL

  1. https://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?Location=jstor
  2. https://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com
  3. http://ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/login?auth=tufts&url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/title/galeacih?institutionId=991&tab=contents

New URL

  1. https://resources.libraries.tufts.edu/?Location=jstor
  2. https://resources.libraries.tufts.edu/?Location=http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com
  3. https://resources.libraries.tufts.edu/?Location=https://search.credoreference.com/content/title/galeacih?institutionId=991&tab=contents

URLs that are already proxied

URLs that are already proxied contain our ezproxy domain in the first part of the URL. Examples of these include:

  1. https://ebooks-spiedigitallibrary-org.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/books.aspx
  2. https://www-clinicalkey-com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/#!/browse/book/3-s2.0-C20150062840
  3. https://tll-degruyter-com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/

To change these URLs, do the following:

  1. Find the section of the URL before .ezproxy.library.tufts.edu and change any dashes to dots. If there are no dashes, keep as is.
    1. https://ebooks-spiedigitallibrary-org.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/books.aspx > https://ebooks.spiedigitallibrary.org.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/books.aspx
    2. https://tll-degruyter-com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/ > https://tll.degruyter.com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/
  2. Remove .ezproxy.library.tufts.edu from the URL (don't forget the dot at the beginning).
    1. https://ebooks.spiedigitallibrary.org.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/books.aspx > https://ebooks.spiedigitallibrary.org/books.aspx
    2. https://tll.degruyter.com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/ > https://tll.degruyter.com/
  3. Finally, add the resources prefix: https://resources.libraries.tufts.edu/?Location=
    1. https://resources.libraries.tufts.edu/?Location=https://ebooks.spiedigitallibrary.org/books.aspx
    2. https://resources.libraries.tufts.edu/?Location=https://tll.degruyter.com/