Papers for Mac: How to Get Off-Campus Access

Papers is a software program that allows you to search for, automatically retrieve, organize, annotate, and read PDFs on your computer. PDFs already saved on your computer may be imported into Papers. Conduct searches of PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and other databases directly through the program and Papers will find and download the full-text when available. Papers uses Spotlight for full-text searching.

A desktop license is $42, but Papers offers a discount for students.

How to configure Papers to use the EZ Proxy for off-campus access

Under the Papers top level menu, choose Preferences

Under the Preferences menu, click on Sources and enter the following:

• Authentication URL: https://weblogin.washington.edu/
• Check the "Go to this page when Papers is started" box
• Library Proxy: http://offcampus.lib.washington.edu/login?url=%@

Where can I get more help?

• Fill out the Questions and Comments form under the Ask Us! button on HealthLinks.
• You can also make an appointment with your library liaison for more assistance.