The Biomed librarian at my library just forwarded this to me from MEDLIB-L
>From: "Kleinmuntz, Dalia" <DKleinmuntz@ENH.ORG>
>Reply-To: "Kleinmuntz, Dalia" <DKleinmuntz@ENH.ORG>
>To: MEDLIB-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
>Subject: Re: Institutional Access to Lancet Online
>Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:18:31 -0600
>
>Lancet apparently didn't "give up" on last year's attempt and is trying a
>new gimmick, that will give them a mailing list of users, statistics to
>prove how much money they are loosing, and how much libraries owe them.
>Marketing wonders never cease -
>
>Dalia at Evanston
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Margo Coletti
>[mailto:mcoletti@CAREGROUP.HARVARD.EDU]
>Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:59 AM
>To: MEDLIB-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
>Subject: Institutional Access to Lancet Online
>
> Here's a new and bizarre twist that our serials librarian
>has come across (her report follows). This sounds like what Wiley was
>doing a couple of years ago (requiring endusers to register with the
>website even though the institution had a subscription). But it's
>even more intrusive: Lancet is demanding name, mail address and email
>address. Then the enduser must assign himself a username and password.
>
> A large number of complaints to Wiley put an end to the practice of
>requiring enduser registration. I'm suggesting strongly that this
>practice, if we are indeed understanding it correctly, be protested
>loudly and directly to Lancet. One question before I call London:
>Has anyone else received the same information as we have?
>
> Margo Coletti
> Medical Library Services Director
> Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
> 330 Brookline Avenue
> Boston MA 02215
>
> phone (617) 667-4225 fax (617) 667-7197
> email: mcoletti@caregroup.harvard.edu
>
> ****************************************
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Silver,April D. (Clin Info, PaperChase, Z Clin Inf)
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:44 AM
>
> Our 2002 subscription for Lancet is for print with online
>access for multiple users. I called customer service in NY
>(1-800-462-6198) for help activating our multiple user access.
>Reading from instructions from the London Office, Bernice In
>Customer Service told me that institutions cannot post generic
>usernames and passwords on their web sites even with multiple
>use subscriptions. Each user must register, "claim access,." and
>create a different username and password. To register, each user
>must register with the subscription number and authentication code
>(registrants are instructed to ask their librarians for the numbers
> -- librarians get the numbers from Lancet by letter or telephone
>call), provide name, address, email address, position and medical
>specialty, and then create his or her own username and password.
>To avoid the step of having each patron supply the subscription
>number and authentication code, institutions can register IP
>address by emailing them to uslancetcs@elsevier.com. But even with
>IP registration each user must still register and create his or her
>own username and password.
>
> Bernice suggested that the library could register 4 or 5 times and
>create 4 or 5 usernames and passwords that could be posted on its
>website for patrons to use. But if patrons happened to try to use the
>same username and password at the same time they would get a message that
>the username and password were in use and not be able to log in. The
>person who devised this scenario is Katy Budgen in London. Her telephone
>number is 011442076114100. Bernice could not find an email address
for Katy.
>
>**********************************************
>(One more question: Does anyone have an email address for
>"Katy"? mhc)
Martin W. Helgesen shhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Cohen Library Voice: 212 650-5871 FAX: 212 650-7604
City College of New York, Convent Avenue and 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
"It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up
believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it."
R.A.K.
Help outlaw spam. For further information see http://www.cauce.org/
