We have some journals like the Astrophysical journal, American Institute of
Physics journals and the number is increasing...all titles that we get
through vendors but have been set up online directly with no problems....If
a subscriber number is required, the vendor provides it accordingly.  In
any case, a lot of dialogue needs to go on before the online access is
established.  I am not aware of any specific titles that we as an
institution, are denied online access.

Kamala S Narayanan                 Phone: (613) 545-6000  ext 4540
Serials Librarian,                 Fax:   (613) 545-6819
Central Library Technical Services,
Queens University,
B100b MacIntosh Corry Hall,        E-mail: narayana@stauffer.queensu.ca
Kingston, Ontario K7L 5C4.
Canada.

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At 18:35 17/08/97 -0700, Mitch Turitz <turitz@sfsu.edu> wrote:
>  I am forwarding the attached message to get input from others suffering
>from the same problem we are.  In a nutshell: journal publishers who are
>offering online access to their publications for people who subscribe are
>NOT allowing access to institutions (such as us) who subscribe through a
>vendor.
>  How are others dealing with this as your patrons demand online access?
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 17:16:44 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "C. Stuart Hall" <cshall@sfsu.edu>
>Subject: Internet journal access
>
>Finally the explanation for our bafflement has emerged.  I don't like it
>much and I expect you won't either, but what I've learned is that the
>journal publishers who are offering free electronic access to their
>journals for anyone who subscribes are making the offer for *individual*
>subscribers.  Some of them want a single IP address--which we can't offer,
>since our IP addresses are too diverse, and if we truncate sufficiently to
>include them all, we're also including non-campus people.  Some of them
>want a subscriber number.  But the piece I just learned is that they won't
>accept a vendor's subscriber number.  Since almost all our subscriptions
>are ordered through a vendor, we don't have the number they require for
>access.  We can't switch those subscriptions from vendor to
>publisher-direct without (a) increasing workload and (b) reducing discounts.
>
>If I hear of or figure out any way of getting access to these sources,
>you'll certainly hear from me.  Meanwhile, the library's full-text access
>is growing a bit (through AP Ideal, EbscoHost, and Project Muse), and the
>CARL SUMO project allows ordering full-text for next-day delivery--not
>like online access, but at least better than anything we had a couple of
>years ago.
>
>                                        --Stuart
>
>        C. Stuart Hall
>        San Francisco State University
>        (415)338-6394
>        cshall@sfsu.edu