I'm here: Home Use and Services Access to Online Resources Technical Requirements

Technical Requirements

Students and Employees of HU

If you are working on-site at a computer of Humboldt-Universität log in with your HU account.
From home, dial-in via VPN (in German only): Please establish the VPN connection first and then open the browser.
You can check whether you are successfully connected via VPN via the website https://meineip.hu-berlin.de.
If you are working on-site with your own mobile device, dial-in to the HU-WLAN with your HU account.

External access to online-resources (homeoffice)

Access via VPN (Virtual Private Network): See our step-by-step instruction (pdf, in German only) and learn how to access electronic resources via VPN.
Access via direct login with HU account without VPN (Shibboleth). Please check the list of publishers and database providers that currently allow Shibboleth access.

Non HU-Members

The use of licensed online resources is only possible via the public computer workstations on-site ("Internet mit Anmeldung").
Prerequisite for using the public computer workstations: one-time change of password (see instructions for internet use (pdf)).
WLAN access with Eduroam account only allows access to the online resources of your home institution.

Current information on the use of online resources at the computer workstations

Your login in the HU network - not your login in the Primus library account - is critical for accessing the online resources. Non-HU members (user number beginning with HUUB...) must change their password once before using the internet for the first time in order to activate internet access. You can change your password in your Primus user account.

Please use Internet mit Anmeldung at the computer workstations to access online resources.

The use of HU-Desktop is currently only possible with a limited range of functions and services (no internet access).

How to Access Online Resources in Primus

Click on "Online access" or "Check online access". Documents with "Online access" lead directly to the selected online resource in an extra window of the browser. With "Check online access" you choose from a list of possible collections and then get to the full text.
If you are in the HU network, you will usually be taken to the respective publisher's page where you can directly access the desired resource.
In the case of journals, it may still be necessary to select the corresponding volume, the issue and then the article.
The access conditions may vary depending on the provider and the underlying licenses.