You can easily access our electronic resources when you are in the Maison de la Paix (in the Library, the Fab, the cafeteria, or elsewhere). If you are elsewhere, for example at home, you will need to activate the VPN to be identified as a Geneva Graduate Institute user.
Instructions on how to install the VPN can be found on this page (it is a password-protected intranet page). For any questions regarding the installation and use of the VPN, please contact the Service Desk.
If the VPN is not working properly, you can try the following workarounds:
Do not confuse the VPN login (which requires your OneLogin credentials) with the Switch edu-ID used to login to Swisscovery. You should:
If the screen you land on looks like this, you went wrong. The green banner at the top means you have been recognised as a Geneva Graduate Institute user, so you have activated the VPN and it is working fine. However, you should never be asked to login, authenticate or select the Institute from a list of institutions.
In this particular case, we have access to this e-book, but from another provider. The link to this page was found in Google Scholar; however, if Google Scholar can give you the correct link to access a journal article (assuming you are at the Maison de la Paix or have the VPN turned on), it can not do so for e-books.
If you search for this e-book directly on Swisscovery, you will have a direct link to the provider where we bought the book. You can also have a link to Swisscovery directly in Google Scholar by activating the library links.
You can enable links to Swisscovery and our electronic resources in your Google Scholar settings. Click on (top left), select Settings -> Library links, and activate the following links:
Direct links to Swisscovery will appear below the reference (GetIt@IHEID) or on the right (ViewIt@IHEID).