Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
Steve Black (blacks@rosnet.strose.edu)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:53:40 -0400
From: "Steve Black" <blacks@rosnet.strose.edu> To: <arl-ejournal@arl.org> Subject: Re: Access from publisher? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:53:40 -0400 Message-Id: <000201bef2ff$d473e560$2b131bbe@admin-vonbehr>
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Anke de Looper <anke.delooper@benjamins.nl> wrote:
>
> John Benjamins is a small commercial scholarly publisher with an
> extensive list in linguistics and related topics. At this moment
> we publish 27 journals and yearbooks. We intend to make our journals
> available electronically starting in 2000.
>
> We are working on the technical infrastructure at our side, which should
> --ideally-- match the client's side.
>
> I would very much appreciate some feedback on the following (direct
> replies or pointers to relevant literature):
>
> 1) Libraries seem to favor IP-controlled access over passwords. Is that
> so, and why? I thought passwords would allow greater flexibility in
> offering access to patrons even if they are off-site. Also, IP
> authentications is problematic (see ARL-EJOURNAL messages in
> February about JANET cache).
>
> 2) Do libraries (prefer to) download an issue of an electronic journal
> once, to offer access to patrons from a local server, or is the
> issue/document downloaded from the publisher's server by each
> patron in turn? Does this depend on what the publisher allows?
>
> Any comments, suggestions or pointers are appreciated.
Dear Ms. de Looper,
Since our students find journal articles overwhelmingly through
citations in indexes, I would recommend that your company make your
journals accessible through existing online journal aggregators.
If EBSCOhost, Lexis-Nexis, InfoTrac, ProQuest, et. al are willing
to add your content, that would be a *much* easier way for us to
make your products available. The proliferation of access points
is a very real problem for us and our students. Each gateway can
individually be straightforward and simple, but when there are
dozens of them, all different, it's a problem. Besides, if the
vendors are willing to add your content and pay you enough to pay
the bills, your company won't have to worry about database, access,
and archiving issues -- you'll just have the first copy costs.
Steve Black
Reference, Instruction, and Serials Librarian
Neil Hellman Library
The College of Saint Rose
392 Western Ave.
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 458-5494
blacks@rosnet.strose.edu
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