All visitors to the museum can access the Ingalls Library’s entire collection of electronic resources when using one of the stationary computers in the library or when connecting to the museum’s wifi network on a personal device. For patrons working away from the museum, however, some of our electronic resources can only be accessed with special permissions. We’ve added icons next to these resources to indicate which level of permission is required.
Many of the resources on the electronic resources list are considered open access and can therefore still be accessed by anyone with an internet connection working offsite. These resources will have a globe icon next to them.
When you see an icon next to a resource, here’s what it means:
Patrons accessing these resources offsite are prompted to login through a system called EZproxy.
Only CMA staff along with faculty and graduate students associated with Case Western Reserve University’s Joint Program in Art History and Museum Studies may access resources with this icon when working offsite.
Some resources will also display this additional VPN icon.
These resources may only be accessed offsite by CMA staff using a museum-issued device configured to connect to the museum’s network via our VPN client.
The lock icon represents password protected resources. This type of resource may be accessed onsite-only using one of the stationary computers in the library via login credentials that may be obtained from library staff at the reference desk. NOTE: some password protected resources are available to CMA research staff only.
The globe icon represents open access resources that are freely available to anyone at any location.
For students and faculty of the joint program in Art History and Museum Studies at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), we provide a direct link to the Kelvin Smith Library's database page in the second tab of this guide.
