This is a brief note and I will elaborate on this later.

At the moment, a student on campus will be faced with a Webgate prompt when they go to a libguides page. This is because Libguides is an external web site. If you are asked, recommend that the student login to Webgate. They will not be charged for Internet Traffic to Libguides, which is charged to the Library.

We hope to get rid of the Webgate prompt (and indeed did last week) but it means finding every possible combination of Libguide links and noting them in Ezproxy. The site does go through Ezproxy (which is why the Library is charged) but this is a misuse of Ezproxy which is actually designed to enable off-campus access to resources – not a problem with Libguides which is freely accessible off-campus.

Because of this, even if we can get rid of the prompt, it is likely to be a recurring problem but this is something I’ll tell you more about when we have done additonal testing.

Thanks, Peter