Don't forget to check mailing labels.  They often have the numbers that are
needed by the publisher. Sometimes that's quicker than going through a
vendor, but the vendor should have the number.

We do have some titles, though, that we can access from only one machine,
usually a PC at the Reference Desk.  This is a compromise with some
publishers who do not want to allow us to place their titles out for wider
distribution on campus.  We evaluate these just like we'd evaluate a
stand-alone CD:  is it worth the extra work to maintain?

I've never had a publisher refuse to offer us at least the one dedicated
access point when I've called or e-mailed to them.  In many cases I have
been able to negotiate a much broader access simply by asking.

Good luck.

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JoAnne Deeken
Head, Acquisitions Unit
Clemson University
R.M. Cooper Library
Box 343001
Clemson, SC 29634-3001

V-(864)656-1114
F-(864)656-7156

djoanne@clemson.edu
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At 02:00 PM 8/18/97 -0400, Kamala S Narayanan wrote:
>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