Many thanks to everyone who responded to my query about access tokens. Enough people wanted to know more about them that I will summarize: How access tokens work is that you would purchase a bundle of a set number of tokens (usually 100 or more) to allow article downloads, instead of purchasing an entire subscription. Wiley has a program like this: http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-406741.html

We have made our content available for rent at a small fee ($3.99 per article) through DeepDyve. This would give you 24-hour on-screen access to an article (http://www.deepdyve.com/browse/publishers/mit-press). We thought this might be an enticing option for those without institutional access. But we're still definitely exploring the access token option as well.

If anyone else has comments about access tokens, please feel free to contact me!

Thank you very much.

Best,

Karie Kirkpatrick
MIT Press Journals
Simmons GSLIS '09

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Hello all,

The MIT Press Journals Division is looking into offering tokens for libraries to obtain access to unsubscribed journal articles and would like to gauge the interest of the serials librarian community. Has anyone utilized this type of service from other publishers? Is this something that might interest serials librarians? Any input you might have would be most welcome. We're always looking for diverse ways to provide our content to libraries.

Thank you very much for your time.

Best regards,

Karie Kirkpatrick
Simmons GSLIS '09

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