At 01:19 PM 8/20/97 -0400, Carol Jones of Yale wrote:
>In our experience, The Chronicle has made it very clear that each
>individual who accesses the online version must have his/her own individual
>subscription in order to get a password and ID.  When I called their
>office, I was told explicitly that they do not make passwords and ID's
>available for institutional use and that a password/ID issued to a
>librarian is not to be posted or otherwise shared for multiple-user access.

The "individual subscriber only" password for the Chronicle was also my
understanding, and when I called them yesterday and explained that
professors want to use this with their classes this year, the person there
advised me to apply for a password, and just hold it behind the Reference
Desk. This makes me nervous, since the initial password (which you can bet
I'll reset) uses parts of my name, and the guidelines they sent with the
password specifically say that it is for my individual use. I find it ironic
that a publication of this type has not yet made provisions for full access
by their main constituants. Ethically I feel I'm in murky waters, and would
like to hear from others who share "their" password, and whether this has
worked for them. Am I "covered" legally because I have told the publisher of
my intent to share? And what can we do to get this publisher to change this
policy?

Jean Lenville, Serials Librarian
Univ. of Richmond, VA
jlenvill@richmond.edu