> Please accept our apologies for replying to the whole list, but we feel it
> is worth clarifying this matter.
>
> As a subscription agent providing a gateway service to electronic
> journals, Swets Blackwell does not own any full text content, and nor does
> it license such content from publishers for hosting on its own servers.
>
> Publishers retain final control over authentication and access to their
> content, and Swets Blackwell cannot and will not open-up access to content
> where doing so would be in breach of publishers' license conditions.
>
> In this particular case, the publisher's Basic Access License limits
> access to a single site (see
> http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/2002_access.html ).
>
> Although Swets Blackwell continues to encourage publishers to accept the
> Swets Blackwell proxy IP address to enable faster and more seamless set up
> of access through SwetsWise, it will not open-up access where doing so
> would contravene publishers' licenses.
>
> We do however encourage publishers to take account of growing distance
> learning requirements when drafting their license policies and therefore
> to open up access either by accepting Athens authentication or proxy
> authentication.
>
> We hope this clarifies matters.
>
Robert Bley
Robert Bley, MCLIP
Sales Manager - Electronic Access Solutions
Swets Blackwell
Swan House
Wyndyke Furlong
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Galloway [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 18 March 2003 13:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: SwetsWise/Wiley off-campus authentication
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I wonder if anyone else has com across a problem with
> off-campus access to
> titles via SwetsWise using ATHENS authentication?
>
> I recently received a query from one of our distance
> learners who was unable
> to access Strategic management journal (Wiley) using her
> Athens log-in. I
> forwarded this query to the Swets helpdesk and have just
> been advised that
> Wily, as a "gateway" publisher, perform a secondary IP
> check. If the
> publisher is Athens-enabled, and their service is available
> to your
> institution as an Athens resource, access should still be
> granted for your
> off-campus Athens users (without a further User ID &
> Password prompt). Where
> the gateway publisher does not accept Athens, off-campus
> access will always
> be denied.
>
> Our problem is that our Wiley subs are not through the
> bundle deal, but
> rather individual subs paying extra to get e-access on top
> (an option which
> does not include ATHENS access as such). We are not
> therefore able to get
> off-campus access.
>
> Swets advise that their Publisher Relations departments are
> working with
> publishers to encourage them to accept the SwetsWise proxy
> instead of
> carrying out additional IP checks on end-users. We have
> asked them for the
> latest news on their progress with Wiley and have also
> requested a list of
> gateway publishers, to allow us to make this information
> available to our
> users.
>
> Perhaps others are already aware of this problem but I
> thought it might be
> of interest to those who hadn't yet come across it. I'll be
> sure to post a
> list of the other "gateway" publishers when I receive it
> from Swets.
>
>
> ===========================================
> Laura Galloway
> Serials/Document Delivery
> Glasgow University Library, Hillhead Street
> Glasgow G12 8QE, Scotland, UK
>
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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