We have a similar issue with a local publication that sends us PDFs. We use our e-reserves system, which puts everything behind our proxy server anyway, and add the PDFs there, and link to that from our holdings system. Our ILS doesn't have any mechanism for storing PDFs directly with or without proxying so that's really the only place we can put them short of setting up a separate server. But it seems to work fine.

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi@upei.ca 902-566-0581



On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Mark Winek <mdw65@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Hi Caitlin,

We've had a similar issue at Georgetown with a serial from Yemen that has started publishing a PDF since the war started. Since they don't have a website, they forward the PDF through our agent.

I don't have a setup like Nancy describes (yet). I store them in Box and put the folder URL in the bib record. The link restricts access to anyone with university single sign-on access.

Best,
Mark Winek

Georgetown University


On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 5:09 PM Caitlin Harrington (chrrngt4) <chrrngt4@memphis.edu> wrote:

Greetings,

 

University of Memphis Libraries subscribes to Campus Law Enforcement Journal, which emails issues number 1-3 as a PDF and prints only issue number 4. We’re currently struggling to provide institutional access to the digital issues for our users. The publisher advises that we print the digital issues ourselves, or store them “in a database of some sort.” I’m wondering if anyone has similar subscriptions, where digital issues are not hosted online and accessed via IP authentication or username and password? If so, how did you provide access for users?

 

Thanks!

Caitlin

 

 

 

 

Caitlin Harrington | she/her/hers

Electronic Resources Librarian

Assistant Professor | University Libraries

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901.678.8226 | chrrngt4@memphis.edu

 

 



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