Re: Cambridge University Press

[David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>]

The request of the publisher, for ip range, plus individual user names and
passwords, seems to me the opposite of good news. (And they want user
names and password even for their free abstracts and tables of contents!)
One reason for the existence of libraries is so users do not have to deal
directly with publishers for every item they might want to read. I can
understand that publishers may want to know who their readers are, but I
think we should continue to consider it one of our ethical
responsibilities to enable users to access material in a way that
specifically prevents publishers (or anyone) knowing who is accessing
what.

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David Goodman                                                                   
Biology Librarian, Princeton University Library                                 
dgoodman@princeton.edu         http://www.princeton.edu/~biolib/                
phone: 609-258-3235            fax: 609-258-2627                                

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Warren Holder wrote:
> 
> We have been very interested in gaining access to Cambridge University
> Press journals for some time so in a way, this is good news. I will e-mail
> Chris myself but has anyone had success getting them to move away from the
> old username and password entry issue. We have a workaround but we don't
> like it. Cambridge UP titles will mean that we have licences to provide
> access to over 6,000 journals ( some duplicates ) electronically which
> means that a user may be expected to know quite a few usernames/passwords
> or we put the username/password up for the world to see. As I said we have
> a workaround but our users do not like it.
> 
> Please either tell me I am wrong or let Cambridge know your thoughts.
> 
>       Thanks,
> 
>        Warren Holder
> 
> Warren Holder
> Electronic Information Resources Co-ordinator
> University of Toronto Library
> Robarts Library
> 130 St. George Street
> Toronto, Ontario
> CANADA M5S 1A5
> 
> 416-978-2286  Telephone
> 416-978-1668  Fax
> 
> Holder@library.utoronto.ca
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ann Okerson [SMTP:aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 12:23 PM
> > To:   liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> > Subject:
> >
> >
> > Chris Fell of Cambridge University Press writes:
> >
> > To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> > From: Chris Fell <cfell@cup.cam.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: Oxford and Cambridge UP
> > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:21:13 +0100
> >
> > Cambridge Journals Online
> >
> > There are now 57 titles available within the Cambridge Journals Online
> > service. Tables of contents, bibliographic materials and artic abstracts
> > are available free of charge to all internet users. The full text of
> > articles is available online to users at an institution that subscribes
> > to the print version of the journals. We are also testing society
> > member and individual subscriptions on selected titles.
> >
> > To access the full text of articles online, an institution has to
> > activate its subscription. This can be done online at the CJO website
> > and involves associating a registration record against the subscription
> > record already held in the database. When possible, we associate a
> > domain name with our institutional subscription number and allow any
> > user within that domain to access the journals. If a domain name is not
> > available, we associate an IP number range with the subscription record.
> > Currently, we ask that all users register a name and password of their
> > own choosing, whether they are within an active domain or just browsing
> > the free areas of the service.
> >
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