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Re: Passwords for Remote Access
Last week, when Janice M. Jaguszewski, Collections Coordinator of the Science & Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota posted her detailed message about passwords for databases accessed remotely, she expressed a strong preference that the producer validate by IP rather than issuing a password to her institutional library -- whihc means, practicall speaking, having a librarian hand out the PW to each interested user. She commented (and we have found this to be the case as well) that it is simply unwielding for our librarians to be distributors of the password. Janice also asked if it is permissible to somehow publish or include the password for her user community, for example, during the logon to the resource. While we've heard some useful and important things about validation modes in general (a good topic: keep messages about it coming) we haven't heard any thoughts about the answer to her specific question. What do you all (publishers, librarians, lawyers) think that a library can do to avoid having to hand out the password; is publication to a specific user community acceptable? Appropriate? Thanks for your thoughts, The Moderators
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