As Sandhya was describing, we use EJS to display usernames and passwords
to authenticated users.  We place them in the "End User Access Note"
through the Registration Tracker.  We include the persistent link to the
Journal Home page, which displays the username and password, in the
catalog and on our A-to-Z list.  But for the journals which are not
available on EJS, we are still facing the problem Sylvia described.

Katie Fearer
Librarian, Periodicals
Alaska State Library
907-465-2988
kathleen.fearer@alaska.gov

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[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Sandhya Srivastava
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:41 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] electronic access question

Hi Sylvia

I believe there is a way to put your username and password access on the
ejs
platform so users who authenticate will have the information.  They can
then
jump to the journal and access on their own with the username and
password.
Speak to your customer service rep at Ebsco and ask where the
information
can be placed.  I haven't done this in a while because all our titles
are IP
access but I know other libraries have done this.  I believe it is a
journal
note.

Sandhya

Sandhya (Sandy) D. Srivastava
Electronic Resources Librarian
New York Institute of Technology
Wisser Library
Northern Boulevard
Old Westbury, New York 11568-8000
Telephone: (516) 686 - 3790
Fax: (516) 686 - 1152
Email: ssrivast@nyit.edu

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[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Koontz, Sylvia
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:02 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] electronic access question

Good morning Collective Serials Wisdom,

I'm curious as to what other libraries are doing about access to
electronic
serials that will not authenticate except through their own
username/password screens even if they are part of a larger database
such as
EJS or NCLive (October and Film score monthly are two examples). We'd
rather
not hand out usernames and passwords, nor does our Ref. librarian want
to
have to type them in herself each time someone wants to search these
titles
(as the publishers seem to think should happen).

Please copy any replies to me, as I'm on digest. Thank you in advance
for
your insight!

Sylvia Koontz
Cataloguer
Semans Library
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
koontzs@uncsa.edu

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