Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
Thomas Hapke (hapke@tu-harburg.de)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:56:27 +0000
Message-Id: <199908310834.KAA05517@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de> From: "Thomas Hapke" <hapke@tu-harburg.de> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:56:27 +0000 Subject: Re: Access from publisher? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990830171136.006af1e0@pop3.NL.net>
Hi,
Here are my six-pence-worth-comments to your questions:
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).
If there must be any restriction, we would prefer IP access,
because of the problems of managing passwords, mentioned in other
mails. But from my point of view, perhaps in this times a little
bit unrealistic, free access to the full text would be the best.
I think this would be the right way out of the journal crisis for
the future. One example of this way is the New Journal of Physics,
a peer-reviewed journal, published by the Institute of Physics
Publishing http://www.njp.org/. NJP is funded by article
charges from authors of published papers (Sure, this issue rises
the difficult question of shifting money from the libraries to the
scholars in an university environment!)
> 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?
Preserving the content of journals for the future is one of the main
tasks for libraries, at least in the past, but also in the future.
But not every library will be able to make the efforts to preserve
digital journal collections in the long run. One solution is
perhaps the archiving by publishers. But I am sceptic about this.
Interesting and the the right direction in my opinion is the offer
by OCLC named Electronic Collections Online where publishers can
load their periodicals (after an contract with OCLC). From this
collection libraries can subscribe and get their e-journals through
or via OCLC. After cutting the subscription of an e-journal, the
access to the old volumes will be possible in the long run via OCLC
by paying a small amount of money for every journal to OCLC by the
library, for preserving instead of paying for local shelf space as
in the past. OCLC or any other organisation with a similar offer
will try to do effectively permanently archiving digital journals
for libraries.
Sorry for my German influenced English! 8-)
Kind regards,
T.H.
Thomas Hapke, Subject Librarian for Chemical Engineering
University Library, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
D-21071 Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: hapke@tu-harburg.de, phone: +49 40 42878-3365,
fax: 40 42878-2527
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