Hello, Evalyn.  We are in the same fix with some of our online
journals.  Most of our online databases, journals, and e-books work very
well with ez proxy and do not need the publisher-specific user id and
password.  The ones for which ez proxy works well allows the patrons to
go directly into the content with a problem, but a few still ask for a
separate user id and password.  We have also resorted to having an
envelope at the reference desk with user ids and passwords for those
products.  I don't like this because it does make the product less
convenient and harder to use and it puts the reference librarian in the
position of having to figure out who it is okay to give it to.

I would welcome any suggestions on how to better deal with this.

Barbara Pope, MALS
Reference/Periodicals Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS  66762
bpope@pittstate.edu

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.
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> Does anyone have a better suggestion?
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> Thanks.
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> Evalyn Stone
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