Re: Click through licenses for users

[nbaum@notes.cc.sunysb.edu]

We haven't done this at Stony Brook but it's something I've been thinking
of doing as part of our conversion to a proxy server for user
authentication. I would think it would be possible to put a generic
message at the point at which users are prompted for some kind of
identification before they can proceed to the selected resource.

Nathan Baum, Digital Resources Librarian, Melville Library
SUNY StonyBrook
Stony Brook, New York 11794-3331
Voice: 631.632.9959 Fax: 631.632.7116 E-mail: nathan.baum@sunysb.edu

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Leslie Button <button@library.umass.e  
To:     liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu               
Subject:     Click through licenses for users     

We notify users of use and conditions for various electronic resources in
our bibliographic instruction classes and through other means.  However,
we have been contemplating place a front-end terms of use on our homepage.

It would be an intermediary between the individual selecting the product
they want to access and the product itself.  Are any other libraries doing
this (seems to me I've heard of a few that are)?  Was it reasonably easy
to implement?  How have library users reacted?  If any of you have done
this/know of an institution that has, did you construct a page for each
product or did you use a more generic notification?

Thanks for your advice.

Leslie Button
Head, Acquisitions Department
University of Massachusetts Library
Amherst, MA  01003-9275
button@library.umass.edu