Mieko Yamaguchi wrote about the availability of over
137,000 free scientific articles from the publishers who
work with Stanford's HighWire Press.
The report from Mieko was the following:
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However we have found that intl.plantcell.org directs the user to
www.plantcell.org (US site) instead. Our network expert speculates that
because the Janet caches are in the ja.net domain rather than ac.uk, their
(i.e. Digital Island's) software cannot tell where the request is coming
from and so directs it to the US site.
I then saw the following notice:
http://intl.highwire.org/help/slow.dtl
If you go to http://intl.highwire.org
and notice that it changes to
http://highwire.stanford.edu/ that means our
system has automatically detected that you
are using a very-high-speed
research-network connection between
Stanford University (where the HighWire
Press server is located) and your
organization. This network is called
"Internet2" (or "Abilene"). Our server
automatically uses that very-high-speed path
instead of Digital Island.
In fact http://intl.highwire.org directs me to http://www.highwire.org.
What should we do? Does this mean access via this method is subject to
transatlantic charges? Should we add all the sites (they are usually
in the format: intl-xxxx.yyyy.org) to our cache bypass list?
Any suggestions on this will be welcome.
Mieko
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HighWire is using Internet2 routes from Stanford University
to reach scientists in many countries in Europe who are now
and increasingly connected via their countries'
very-high-speed research networks connected to Internet2.
(We're rather happy that Mieko found our explanation for
what was happening.)
In the massive configuration we did recently, some UK
networks got included in the routing via Internet2 and
we've now taken them out so that UK users who use our
"intl." site URLs should have them remain "intl.". Mieko,
let me know at [log in to unmask] to confirm if the change
is effective for you. If patrons at those UK universities
wish to take advantage of fast routing via Internet2, they
will need to use the "www." URL instead of the "intl."
URL and of course verify with their network administrators
that they are connected to Internet2 (as Mieko's university
apparently is).
Thanks for your interest in the journals we support.
John
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John Sack, Associate Publisher and Director,
HighWire Press, Stanford University
Phone: 650-723-0192; fax: 650-723-9325
http://highwire.stanford.edu/~sack/
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