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Simultaneous User Flavors
Here's a question: How many different flavors or interpretations of Simultaneous User are there? From a meeting a bunch of consortial folks just had with various e-vendors, it seemed to me that at least two flavors were identified: 1. Each Simultaneous User represents a log-in session that is happening. The session lasts as long as the User is logged in without having exited from the system. If the session has no activity for a certain number of minutes, it is set to time out. (One of the vendors called this model "number of ports.") By such a definition, the library would want more simultaneous users than in #2: 2. Each Simultaneous User is recorded for the actual seconds/moments that information is being requested and retrieved. Time spent viewing the material (which in a Web situation is likely to now be on the User's machine) does not count as Simultaneous Use time. Under this definition, one would need far fewer licenses, presumably. Is this an accurate understanding of the possibilities, at least for remote access? Are there other flavors of Simultaneous User? This seems an important understanding to have when negotiating a content license. Ann Okerson Associate University Librarian Yale University ann.okerson@yale.edu
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