Introduction

The goal of the eSmith Portal is to provide an attractive, easy to use gateway to navigate through the network of both public and private information, services and business functions of the school and the University. It provides a secure infrastructure to present Web-based applications and information to the Smith community. The portal is focused on tools for collaboration, research, and personal productivity.  Learn more about eSmith

Login

To access the eSmith Portal, you must log in using your Directory ID and Password.

The Portal is ONLY available to University faculty and staff, and those students who have BMGT as their primary major.  If you believe that you should have access but do not, please contact portalhelp@rhsmith.umd.edu

Training

Smith IT has created a Portal training movie.   You can also visit the Smith IT Training site for more information on eSmith training.

Printing

While printing directly to a remote user's printer is technically possible using the Windows Applications section of the portal, in practice it doesn't work very well.  Hopefully, as the technology evolves, printing to local printers will become more practical, but in the meantime a workaround is to print to Adobe Acrobat PDF files and download the resulting documents to be printed locally. PDF documents retain all of the formatting from the source application but can be easily printed anywhere using the free Acrobat Reader Software.

Click here for more on Printing

Applications Available on eSmith

In order to access applications through eSmith, you must first install the Citrix client. Learn more about Citrix.

Finance folder:
• CRSP_TS_Print
• Excel with Research Insight add-in
• IBIS world - Internet Explorer
• Passwords for VenureXpert and SDC Platinum
• Research Insight
• Reuters 3000 Xtra - Desktop Edition
• S&P market insight
• SDC Platinum
• Webstract
• VentureXpert

Marketing folder:
• Answer Tree
• Markstrat Online

Productivity folder:
• Access 2003
• Dreamwaver
• Excel 2003
• Front Page 2003
• Power Point 2003
• Project 2003
• Turning Point
• Visio 2003
• Word 2003 with PDF Creator

Research folder:
• Ad$pender
• Google Scholar
• UMD General Library
• UMD Research Port - mainly academic journals
• VBIC - Virtual Business Information Center

Stat & Analysis folder:
• ACL8-Desktop
• Crystal Ball

• Lotus Notes Client icon
• VBIC icon - Virtual Business Information Center
• Windows Explorer icon – to access your Smith network drive space

NOTE:  Some applications require your Novell login information to be entered by first clicking the "Edit" button in the top right corner of the "Windows Applications" frame.  eSmith will save your entry.