I agree and normally would push back against these as well as the ones that require username/password instead of IP authentication. But in our case, we have a policy obligation to collect pretty much everything that is published locally for our PEI special collection regardless of likely use, so we have to deal with poor-practice publishers. And I'll bet you all have experience with local small publishers being the worst when it comes to any clue about industry standards.

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi@upei.ca 902-566-0581



On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Leslie Burke <Leslie.Burke@kzoo.edu> wrote:

Call me cranky, but I tend to think that these types of subscriptions would have to be REALLY important to the discipline for me to bother with a really poor publishing & access model. I try not to reward publishers with these unmanageable models. Perhaps their market is really the individual user and that’s why they’ve decided to do things that way. I also have found that those resources get less use and don’t justify their expense – in most cases.

 

Mini rant over,

Leslie

 

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From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum <SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG> On Behalf Of Mark Winek
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 7:36 PM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Providing access to email-only digital subscriptions

 

Hi Caitlin,

 

We've had a similar issue at Georgetown with a serial from Yemen that has started publishing a PDF since the war started. Since they don't have a website, they forward the PDF through our agent.

 

I don't have a setup like Nancy describes (yet). I store them in Box and put the folder URL in the bib record. The link restricts access to anyone with university single sign-on access.

 

Best,

Mark Winek


Georgetown University

 

 

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 5:09 PM Caitlin Harrington (chrrngt4) <chrrngt4@memphis.edu> wrote:

Greetings,

 

University of Memphis Libraries subscribes to Campus Law Enforcement Journal, which emails issues number 1-3 as a PDF and prints only issue number 4. We’re currently struggling to provide institutional access to the digital issues for our users. The publisher advises that we print the digital issues ourselves, or store them “in a database of some sort.” I’m wondering if anyone has similar subscriptions, where digital issues are not hosted online and accessed via IP authentication or username and password? If so, how did you provide access for users?

 

Thanks!

Caitlin

 

 

 

 

Caitlin Harrington | she/her/hers

Electronic Resources Librarian

Assistant Professor | University Libraries

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The University of Memphis 
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