The Libraries offer several different services that require a login. Most of the services use your Rutgers NetID/password but some of them also allow Library Barcode/PIN. Login credentials do not usually carry over from one service to another, so you may find that you have to re-enter your credentials several times.

The services that require login are:

• Remote/"off-campus" access, for licensed resources
• MyAccount, in the Library catalog, for seeing your checked out books, renewing materials, etc.
• E-Zborrow, regional, unmediated interlibrary loan
• ILLIAD, mediated interlibrary loan
• Rutgers Delivery Service, request delivery of book from one library to another
• Electronic reserves, in the Library catalog
• Public PC logins (most on-site computers)
• Refworks, a web-based bibliography and database manager
• RUcore services such as faculty deposits
• RU ETD submissions, for submitting electronic theses and dissertations
• Access RUWireless in library buildings
• Journey to Planet Earth, restricted, licensed videos

Please note that access to the website, the Library catalog, RUcore and many other services do not require any login at all.

Remote Access Login

The Libraries obtain many indexes, databases, electronic journals, electronic reserves, and other full-text resources through commercial licensing agreements that restrict access to current students, faculty, and staff and all onsite users. Onsite users may gain access at one of the Rutgers branch libraries, but only current students, faculty and staff of the university may connect from remote locations.

To access these restricted resources from off campus, you must identify yourself as a Rutgers user clicking on the   LOGIN   link on our website and logging in with your Rutgers NetID/password or Library Barcode/PIN. Once you identify yourself as an authorized Rutgers' user, you will be able to use most of the Libraries' restricted resources from off-campus. To logout, just close your browser.

If you have a Rutgers NetID and do not remember what it is you may look it up using the NetID Query. If you do not yet have a Rutgers NetID you may create an OIT account and NetID.

If you have arrived at this page via a search engine, you may find How do I connect from off-campus to be of more use.

Special Classes of Users

Some classes of users are not eligible for or cannot use a Rutger NetID to gain access to restricted resources and must use a Library Barcode/PIN. The user groups that fit into this category are:

• Faculty Emeriti
  • To receive a Library Barcode/PIN, Faculty Emeriti may register in-person or by filling out a "Registering with the Libraries" online form.

• Visiting Scholars
  • Visiting scholars must register in-person at any Rutgers library and present a valid RUconnection ID card.

• Specific Rutgers/UMDNJ joint degree programs, such as the Rutgers/UMDNJ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) and the School of Public Health (SPH) on the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses
  • Users in a Rutgers/UMDNJ joint degree program must register in-person at either the Alexander Library or the Library of Science and Medicine Circulation Desks.

Frequently Asked Questions

I tried to login with my NetID, but it's just giving me some sort of message about cookies.

You see this message when your browser is set not to accept cookies.

In order for the remote access service server to keep track of users that have already logged in, it will send a cookie to your browser that you will need to accept. This is a session based cookie only and does not in any way store any information about sites you have visited.

If you have disabled cookies on your browser, you will need to change this setting in order to login.
If you are having problems enabling cookies, please submit your question to Ask a Librarian. Be sure to specify your operating system and browser, and the browser version.

I logged in with my NetID, but when I use my bookmark to go to ScienceDirect it won't let me look at any articles.

By using a bookmark that you set up before you started using the NetID login, even though you're still logged in you've become "disassociated" from the proxy server.

By "disassociated" we mean that at some point during yoru browsing session, after properly logging in, your location/URL "lost" the proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu part of the URL. When you login, your (anonymous) requests go through a re-writing proxy server (proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu), that is able to present RU credentials to vendors, so that you, a member of RU, can gain access.

Doing any of the following during a session can cause the proxy server to assume that you're no longer connected:

• Using a bookmark that was set up before you started using the NetID login.
• Using a article link that you emailed to yourself from a campus computer.
• Clicking on home.
• Going directly to http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu as your homepage.
• Typing a url into the location bar that doesn't include the proxy, ie., "proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu".
• Attempting to connect to a restricted resource from a non-RU Libraries page.
  • do a web search and wind up on a non RU Libraries web page that has a link to one of the restricted resouces.
  • go to another University's web site and follow their link to one of the restricted resources (like ScienceDirect)

To reconnect to the proxy server, just go back to a Rutgers Libraries page and click on the yellow   LOGIN   link. This should immediately change to   LOGGED IN  . Then select ScienceDirect (or any other resource that you're trying to access) directly from a Libraries' web page.

Once you've connected from the Libraries' page, you can bookmark the new 'proxied' address.

As long as "proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu" appears before the first single slash in a web address, you are logged in and are being recognized as an authorized Rutgers user.

I have my browser configured to connect with my Library Barcode, but I've forgotten my Password.

Your Password is your library PIN: A four-digit personal identification number issued by the Libraries. If you do not have or have forgotten your PIN, go to, or call, the Circulation Desk of any Rutgers Library, or else fill out Library PIN/Registration form.

I'm trying to login with my Rutgers Libraries Barcode and PIN, but they're not being recognized.

There may be a number of reasons why your Barcode/PIN are not being recognized.

• How recently were you issued your barcode and/or PIN?

• Have you previously gone to "MY ACCOUNT" and changed your PIN to a combination of letters and numbers, or just letters?

I'm trying to use one of your online indexes, and it keeps asking me for a user name and password. Nothing I've tried works; what password am I supposed to be using?

If you are being asked for this information at the point at which you are trying to connect to an index or an electronic journal, you are not logged in to access Rutgers-restricted resources remotely.

I've been using library databases remotely all semester, but tonight when I try to connect to PsycINFO I'm being asked for an ID and Password.

If you are able to access other restricted Rutgers Libraries resources but are being asked to login when you try to connect to a specific database such as PsycINFO or Factiva, most likely you are trying to use that database at a time when the number of simultaneous users that Rutgers has contracted for has already been reached.

In which case all you need to do is to try again a little later.

I live right on campus and my dorm is wired so I can connect to the Rutgers network. But when I tried to use some electronic journals today it wouldn't let me in. What's the problem?

Unfortunately, due to the way the local networks were set up there are sometimes connectivity problems to library resources for students living in the Rutgers apartments.

If you have followed the instructions at the Rutgers Residential Networking site and properly registered your on-campus computer, and find that you are not able to access certain library resources, please write to Ask a Librarian and tell us which specific title you were unable to access and where you were trying to access it from.

Until the problem is resolved, you should still be able to access restricted library resources by logging in with your Rutgers NetID.

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