Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
Alison Hunter (Alison.Hunter@usq.edu.au)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:14:42 +1000
Message-Id: <036F9C2F8EE5D21192980000F81A33C613D8CE@KARPO.usq.edu.au> From: Alison Hunter <Alison.Hunter@usq.edu.au> To: "'arl-ejournal@arl.org'" <arl-ejournal@arl.org> Subject: Re: Access from publisher? Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:14:42 +1000
My university has 75% of its students studying offcampus in Australia
and 55 other countries, mostly accessing our web site and databases
through an ISP, and coming into them through a campus intranet/extranet
service called USQconnect. We like to have BOTH IP (for students and
staff in the library and elsewhere on the campus) AND passwords (for
off-campus students) The passwords are on secured pages on our website
which require students to have pre-authenticated themselves through
the intranet.
It's not perfect but we have not had major problems. While I agree
with someone's comment that each step of the location will 'lose'
users, the steps in the process are a whole lot less and faster for
our off-campus students than they have ever been. So -- please give
us the option of using both methods!
Best wishes
Alison Hunter
Associate Librarian, Information Services
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, QLD, 4350 AUSTRALIA
Phone: (07) 4631 1524
Email: huntera@usq.edu.au
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