We use EZProxy to handle all of our security access for online
resources.  The software has to be purchased but once in place, it's
wonderful.  Our IT guys simply add the URLS you provide for the
databases into the EZProxy index and it then automatically opens a login
window anytime someone clicks on a link.  The user
(faculty/staff/student) logs in with their university login (or other if
you prefer) and you don't have to worry about keeping up with passwords
anymore.

Dena Luce, M.L.S.
Extended Services Librarian
Faulkner University
5345 Atlanta Hwy.
Montgomery, AL 36109
(334) 386-7482 ph.
(334) 386-7481 fax
dluce@faulkner.edu

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-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Kellett Gue
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:37 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] how do you provide access to online resources
requiring password?

Our IT guys have a way to script in a password that the user can't see,
but I have no earthly idea how they do it.  Maybe you can chat with your

IT folks and see if they could do something like that?

skg

Susan Kellett Gue
Sr. Library Specialist
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
404-727-2588
404-727-0408 (Fax)

Stone, Evalyn wrote:

>I need your collective wisdom.  We have some online journals (TLS, Art
>newspaper) that provide access to their online archives only by
>password.  We don't have a way (or don't know of a way) to put the
>passwords into our catalog, so we've resorted to having the password at

>the reference desk.  This process  forces patrons to ask for the
>password, making the resource harder to use.
>
>Does anyone have a better suggestion?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Evalyn Stone
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>Evalyn Stone
>Serials Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library
>The Metropolitan Museum of Art
>1000 Fifth Avenue
>New York, NY 10028-0198
>tel: 212/ 650-2446      fax: 212/ 570-3847
>e-mail: evalyn.stone@metmuseum.org
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