Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
Kevil, L H. (KevilL@missouri.edu)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:44:52 -0500
Message-Id: <52246021B94FD311B4B900609451548D03256F98@umc-mail02.missouri.edu> From: "Kevil, L H." <KevilL@missouri.edu> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Subject: Re: Access from publisher? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:44:52 -0500
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Anke de Looper <anke.delooper@benjamins.nl> wrote:
>
> 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.
Dear Miss de Looper,
Please allow me to respond to your e-mail message below.
(1a) I do not believe that password-restricted access will in fact
offer greater flexibility than ip access. Flexibility or
user-controlled customization is logically independent of the
means of initating a session over the internet. Forgotten
passwords create enormous problems for publishers as well as
libraries. Remembered passwords - circulated from authorized
users to unauthorized ones - can be problematic for publishers.
Libraries can provide access to remote users by means of ip
authentication. In any event, publishers should prompt for a
back-up password whenever an unauthorized ip address is detected.
(1b) ip authentication need not be problematic. It is used successfully
hundreds of thousands of times each day.
(2) My understanding of copyright is that libraries are not permitted
to create their own archives of issues without specific permission
of the publisher. I also believe that libraries would prefer not
to do this, as it is easier for the publisher to create the means
of distribution than for each subscribing library to create and
maintain its own local version of the publisher's server.
I would like to thank you for having the foresight to request comments
of the library community. Publishers and libraries do much better when
we work together.
L. Hunter Kevil,
Collection Development Librarian,
176 Ellis Library,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
Columbia, MO 65201
Voice: 573-884-8760
Fax: 573-882-6034
E-mail: KevilL@missouri.edu
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