Access from publisher?

Subject: Access from publisher?
Anke de Looper (Anke.DeLooper@benjamins.nl)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:12:55 +0200

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Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990830171136.006af1e0@pop3.NL.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:12:55 +0200
To: ARL-EJOURNAL@ARL.ORG
From: Anke de Looper <Anke.DeLooper@benjamins.nl>
Subject: Access from publisher?

Dear List Reader,

John Benjamins is a small commercial scholarly publisher with an
extensive list in linguistics and related topics. At this moment
we publish 27 journals and yearbooks. We intend to make our journals
available electronically starting in 2000.

We are working on the technical infrastructure at our side, which should
--ideally-- match the client's side.

I would very much appreciate some feedback on the following (direct
replies or pointers to relevant literature):

1) Libraries seem to favor IP-controlled access over passwords. Is that
   so, and why? I thought passwords would allow greater flexibility in
   offering access to patrons even if they are off-site. Also, IP
   authentications is problematic (see ARL-EJOURNAL messages in
   February about JANET cache).

2) Do libraries (prefer to) download an issue of an electronic journal
   once, to offer access to patrons from a local server, or is the
   issue/document downloaded from the publisher's server by each
   patron in turn? Does this depend on what the publisher allows?

Any comments, suggestions or pointers are appreciated.

Anke de Looper

Ms. Anke de Looper
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
<anke.delooper@benjamins.nl>

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