Re: Seeking suggestions : Accessing online journals (Fatme Charafeddine) Birdie MacLennan MacLennan 21 Jun 2002 16:46 UTC
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:50:39 -0700 From: "Fatme Charafeddine" <fc01@aub.edu.lb> Subject: Re: Seeking suggestions : Accessing online journals (Doreen Kopycinski) We are struggling through this as well. We already use a proxy server. Because of the big change in price between a site wide and Class C IP access, we did not subscribe for the e-access. We are looking for a way to pay by limiting the number of users rather than IP addresses. As you suggested to the publisher this could be through limiting the User name/password or sim users or any other way that would limit the access to a specific number of users. In our case we wouldn't need more that 50, why pay the campus wide fee with a the whole university FTE. Maybe we should contact the publisher as a group of institutions and ask for a review od their policy. Fatme Fatme Charafeddine Serials Librarian/Jafet Library American University of Beirut http://www.aub.edu.lb/ PO Box 11-0236 Beirut Lebanon Fax 961 1 744 703 Tel. 961 1 350 000 (2608) ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:15:58 -0400 > From: "Kopycinski, Doreen" <dkopycinski@ursinus.edu> > Subject: Seeking suggestions : Accessing online journals > > Greetings, > > We have subscriptions to several specialized (chemistry) online journals. > The publisher offers pricing options so that you can pay per IP class C > subnet. We only have one IP registered which 1.) saves us money, but 2.) > limits our access (we can only have 256 concurrent users, which is fine > since we have less than 70 chemistry majors (even though we have other > science majors who could potentially use the resource, our school is > small enough such that it'd be a safe bet that we would never have 256 > people concurrently using any of these journals). > > However, since our IPs are dynamic, a person who wishes to access the > resource has to be lucky enough to have been assigned the correct IP when > booting up their computer. > > We were hoping to use proxy software to solve this problem but the > publisher would charge us for campus-wide access (the difference in cost > between having one IP registered and having campus-wide access gets into > the thousands) if we direct access to these journals through a proxy. > > We asked the publisher if we could utilize username/password access but > were told no. > > SO-the question is whether or not others might have experienced a similar > problem and what possible solutions there are as remedy. > > Your words of wisdom are greatly appreciated, > > Doreen Kopycinski > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ > > Doreen Kopycinski > Technical Services Librarian > Myrin Library > Ursinus College > 601 East Main Street > Collegeville PA 19426 > 610.409.3000 x2460 > dkopycinski@ursinus.edu