RE: Nature Site Licenses - a temporary way around the embargo?

["Tobia, Rajia" <tobia@uthscsa.edu>]

We have an institutional site license for Nature Online and I am not aware
of any such username/password access to embargoed articles.  When you try
to access an embargoed article, a screen appears that allows you to enter
a personal username and password but my understanding is that you must
have a personal subscription, not an institutional subscription, in order
to use the username/password feature.

Rajia Tobia
Associate Library Director for Collection Development
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Briscoe Library MSC 7940
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900
Phone:  210/567-2400
Fax:  210/567-2490
mailto:tobia@uthscsa.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: kaemper@ub.uni-stuttgart.de [mailto:kaemper@ub.uni-stuttgart.de]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:21 PM
To: slapam-l@lists.yale.edu; liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Nature Site Licenses - a temporary way around the embargo?

[Followup-Postings are probably more appropriate to liblicense-l]

I have vague hints that libraries that took out a site license, actually
may already provide a mediated access to the content embargoed for
ip-based access under the present official license conditions, in form of
a username/password restricted account that is issued to the library, and
that may be presumably accessed only by library clerks or only at a
dedicated workstation in the library. Can anyone confirm if this is true?

If this is too delicate a matter, please feel free to write me directly
off list. I will summarize answers for the list.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library, Germany

Check my list "Nature - what other libraries say", 
http://www.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/ejournals/Nature_andere_Univ.html