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Dear Colleagues,

Recently, My university, National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU)  in Taiwan,
creates an authentication-enabled proxy for off-campus accessing
electronic resources. We use Squid as the proxy server software and links
Squid's user authentication module to the authentication function of
NCTU's library automation system. Whenever a user wants to access any
electronic resources via this proxy, he has to key in his patron ID and
password, and Squid will connect to the authentication function of NCTU's
library automation system to verify if he is a valid NCTU patron.

I want to open this proxy to NCTU patrons so that they can access NCTU
subscribed electronic resources when they are off-campus. I tell this
authentication mechanism to a few publishers or vendors, and all of them
agree. Furthermore, as far as I know, several libraries or consortia
exploit similar mechanism to provide off-campus access to electronic
resoueces.

My question is... Do any of colleagues' library use similar mechanism or
have better mechanisms for off-campus access? And if we adopt this
mechanism, do we have to inform all the related publishers and vendors of
this and ask for their permissions?

Sincerely,
Hao-Ren

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