About

Concept

Licensed resources are available to on-campus users. Consequently, to get access to full content, users need to connect to the Max Planck Institute campus. Various options may be supported by your institute, such as proxy, ssh tunnel, or VPN.

MPDL Travel Magic is a proxy-based service concept that addresses the remote access issue. Your IT department may be running an instance of the service. Services available…

Content

Available content covers resources licensed MPG-wide. Resources licensed by the Max Planck Institute are likely to be accessible, too.

Appearance

Once set up, this is what it looks like – view screenshots.

Advantages

MPDL Travel Magic is a lightweight, standalone solution that does its best not to interfere with local infrastructure.

Advantages are:

  • No special end user settings.
  • No special ports (Proxy by Hostname).
  • Browser-based access.
  • Support of mobile devices.
  • Authentication via Max Planck Institute.
  • Selected resources proxied (filtered traffic).

Details

The service is based on OCLC’s EZproxy.

View service description (in German).

For IT staff: How to set up an instance.