Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
Tom Sanders (sandetr@groupwise1.duc.auburn.edu)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:06:55 -0500
Message-Id: <s7ca73fc.029@groupwise1.duc.auburn.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:06:55 -0500 From: "Tom Sanders" <sandetr@groupwise1.duc.auburn.edu> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
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).
We have about 22,000 students plus faculty plus staff. Trying to
manage password controlled access under such conditions is very
difficult. Trying to prevent "sharing" of passwords with
non-affiliated users is impossible. In some cases we have set up
phantom users so that our patrons just click. This still requires
them to be coming from a "correct" IP address. While IP address
control is not perfect, it works and it requires less management
on our part. This allows us to concentrate on library issues.
(Our patrons can dial into their on-campus accounts from off-campus
and access library resources from those accounts.) We are obviously
interested in security as well as ease of access and we are open to
new or improved techniques to control access, but we do not have
unlimited resources to devote to this question.
> 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?
For most of our journals, we do not archive locally. We prefer for
the publisher to maintain the database and for each user to access
directly. This allows us to direct our resources (human and machine)
where we feel they are most needed.
Tom Sanders
<sandetr@groupwise1.duc.auburn.edu>
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