Subject: Re: Access from publisher?
Fytton Rowland (J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:36:10 +0100
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990901103610.0075b410@staff-mailin.lboro.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:36:10 +0100 To: arl-ejournal@arl.org From: Fytton Rowland <J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Access from publisher? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990830171136.006af1e0@pop3.NL.net>
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).
Returning to my desk after a UK holiday weekend, I have read this
interesting thread and have one comment to add. All the responses
have concerned the issues for librarians. Passwords are also a bad
idea for the end-user. User studies on electronic journals show
that users often do not know which publisher publishes any given
journal, and users certainly do not want to remember lots of different
passwords for different publishers. The best solution, from the user's
point of view, is to provide access to all the e-journals to which the
library subscribes through a single common interface, which the
library's users can become familiar with. This interface might well
be that of an aggregator -- another reason why it is very desirable
that all publishers need to be willing to sell through all of the
aggregators. After all, in the print era, you didn't mind selling
through any subscription agent, did you?
Yours, Fytton Rowland.
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Fytton Rowland, M.A., F.I.Inf.Sc., Lecturer,
Deputy Director of Undergraduate Programmes and
Programme Tutor for Publishing with English,
Department of Information Science,
Loughborough University,
Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK.
Phone +44 (0) 1509 223039 Fax +44 (0) 1509 223053
E-mail: J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk
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