Hello,
I would be interested in the portal information.  We have a pretty low tech solution for titles requiring username and password.  We wanted some way to allow access 24/7 so we created a page on our campus website that must be logged into...the url begins https rather than http.  The 856 in the marc record provides 2 links...one to the secure username/password page then a link to the web site to login.  Here is a sample record:
http://libcat.uafortsmith.edu/search/j?SEARCH=science+teacher
Martha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricker, Jan"
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008 1:09 pm
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] managing online access to periodicals subscribed to in print (Kaolin Fire)
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU

> Could you tell us more about having our own portal to the
> journals? How
> to set it up, etc.
>
> This is a very hot topic right now for me as I have no tech expertise,
> yet am expected to make sure all our journals which have online access
> are available for our patrons.
> THANKS
> Jan
>
> ********************************************************
> Jan Ricker
> ILL/Periodicals/Office Mgr.
> PO Box 600 200 Blowers Blvd.
> Milligan College, TN 37682-0600
> phone: 423-461-8703
> fax: 423-461-8984
> jricker@milligan.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Persing
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:06 AM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] managing online access to periodicals
> subscribedto in print (Kaolin Fire)
>
> Subject: [SERIALST] managing online access to periodicals
> subscribed to
> in print
> From: Kaolin Fire
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:29:58 -0700
>
> > We are wondering if there is a simple or streamlined way to
> offer our
> > users access to the online versions of periodicals we
> subscribe to in
> > print. These would be periodicals not included in any of our
> > full-text databases, but to which our print subscription
> comes with
> > electronic access. Is there any way around creating a
> separate login
> > for each journal? What is the simplest way to offer access to our
> users?
>
> Depending on tech expertise on-staff, it's plausible to have
> your own
> portal to the journals (wrapping your own logins so the end-user
> doesn't
> see them, if that's the issue).
>
> But I tend to come at things with a "you could write a program
> to..."
> hammer, as that's my background--and that might be more effort
> than
> creating separate logins to each journal.
>
> --
> -kaolin imago fire
> -Founding Editor, GUD Magazine; Chief Instigator, Issue 0
>

Martha Coleman
Reference/Serials Librarian
University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
Boreham Library
5210 Grand Avenue
Fort Smith,  AR  72904
479-788-7208   voice     479-788-7209   fax
mcoleman@uafortsmith.edu