Re: Accessing Evidence-based Nursing

["James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>]

> So I was surprised to receive login procedures from EBN Online, and then
> horrified to read them. The login document consists of four screen shots
> with lengthy captions explaining where to click in order to successfully
> navigate through to the actual full text, while avoiding various links to
> payment and password-protected access options. (How even a regular user of
> EBN will make it to full text without a copy of the login procedures is a
> mystery to me.)

I haven't seen this document, so I'm confused about where the complication
is.  It looks to me like most of our sites -- you bring up the homepage,
click on the "current issue" and get the TOC. From there you click on a
full text link or whatever, and you get an article or a login prompt
depending on whether or not you have IP based access.

> EBN Online has unwittingly created a de facto secondary access control
> which not only defeats IP-based access but any access at all. Highwire
> Press is sympathetic but had to refer me back to the publishing society.  
> RCN responded that they need a "few weeks" to consider their login
> procedures. Is anyone else out there dealing with EBN Online? Suggestions?

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