Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
Thomas Dowling (tdowling@ohiolink.edu)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:42:13 -0400
Message-Id: <005501bef306$cd7f06c0$711e99c0@ohiolink.edu> From: "Thomas Dowling" <tdowling@ohiolink.edu> To: <arl-ejournal@arl.org> References: <3.0.32.19990830171136.006af1e0@pop3.NL.net> Subject: Re: Access from publisher? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:42:13 -0400
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Anke de Looper <anke.delooper@benjamins.nl> wrote:
>
> 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.
When you have to distribute passwords to a large enough community,
password security is no security at all. There is no secure way to
share a password with a community of several thousand users, and no
way to prevent such a community from from distributing the password
to people beyond the community of valid users.
> 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?
Libraries prefer to deal with publishers who are flexible enough to
support any of these models, or others not listed here. Many
libraries currently prefer to access articles on demand across the
net. My organization, on the other hand, requires local loading
options.
Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling@ohiolink.edu
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