Re: Platform for individual electronic journals (besides EJS?) Lawless, Jane 31 Jul 2009 19:37 UTC
Barbara -- I think you can resolve this without too much difficulty, but others on this list may be able to give you more details. You want to ask EJS to provide you with a file of their titles which can be added to your EZProxy server. If you talk to someone in EJS support, they should be familiar with this file, and able to send it to you. The your EZProxy administrator will need to add that file to the server, plus additional text to the config file. More info on this at http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/ezproxy/cfg/includefile/ . We used to have exactly the same problem you describe but this took care of it. Hope this helps, Jane Jane Lawless Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian Levin Memorial Library Curry College 1071 Blue Hill Avenue Milton MA 02186 (617) 333-2245 (617) 333-2164 (fax) jlawless@curry.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Pope Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:14 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Platform for individual electronic journals (besides EJS?) Hello, Jane. I would like to know this also. Just recently, we started having a problem with newly added titles that support ip authentication. We do not do any titles that require the user name and password. It's just too much to keep track of and eventually the passwords may leak out to parties who should not have them. Recently, I added two new titles to EJS. The access all works fine on campus. When I try to test it at home for verification, I can get through the proxy just fine. It's when I try to access an article that I get stumped with input user name and password box. I called Tech Support at Ebsco the other day and they blamed it on our proxy server. Our systems staff questions why we even use EJS if it is hosted at the publisher website anyway. I agree, but it means the systems staff would have to account for every single publisher we have online access for. I think it would be a lot of work, but I think I could go into Serials Solutions and get the title direct from the publisher. I am not even sure if I could count how many titles that would be, though. We are going more and more online, so we have to get a handle on this issue. Has anyone else gone direct to the publisher website for access rather than EJS? If so, does it work well for you, or at least better? Thank you. Sincerely, Barbara M. Pope, MALS Periodicals/Reference Librarian Axe Library Pittsburg State University 1701 S. Broadway Pittsburg KS 66762 620-235-4884 bpope@pittstate.edu Lawless, Jane wrote: > We most often use EBSCO's EJS as an administrative platform for our > individually- subscribed electronic journals. This is valuable > especially when publishers don't support IP authentication; we can set > up a pop-up with login info for our users. > > A number of e-journals we wish to subscribe to individually are not > available through EJS. This is especially true for titles that are aimed > at elementary educators (Everyday TLC, Enchanted Learning are two > examples). These titles don't support IP recognition and don't go > through EJS, so we are trying to work out alternatives. Without an admin > platform that allows us to communicate login info to our users, I am > stumped. > > > If anyone knows something that would help me with this question I'd be > very grateful! > > Thanks, > > Jane > > > Jane Lawless > Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian > Levin Memorial Library > Curry College > 1071 Blue Hill Avenue > Milton MA 02186 > (617) 333-2245 > (617) 333-2164 (fax) > jlawless@curry.edu > > >