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My favourite is still the London Review of Books, whose terms and
conditions (http://www.lrb.co.uk/terms.php) state:
5. Each subscription to the LRB entitles the subscriber - be they an
individual or an institution - the registration of one person to use the
'subscriber only' content on the web site. This person is the 'registered
subscriber'.
6. Use of the 'subscriber only' content on the Website is strictly for the
personal use of the registered subscriber and is not to be used for any
purpose by any other person.
So the only person who can use LRB online is the librarian who sets up the
online access!
In your case, I think Whurr have found the functionality in Acrobat that
allows you to password-protect a PDF file and have decided that this is a
quick and easy authentication method for *them*, but maybe they should
think more about their *subscribers*...
Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Harold Cohen Library
University of Liverpool
PO Box 123 Liverpool L69 3DA
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 5408 Fax: +44 (0)151 794 5417
Email: [log in to unmask]
--On 19 October 2004 15:38 +0100 Lesley Crawshaw <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are very keen at my institution to gain electronic access to any of our
> subscriptions that are available electronically either as online only or
> as print with free online etc.. This is not an easy task, when the
> information on some publishers web sites is either way out of date or
> doesn't contain the information we need in order to gain access to the
> e-version of a particular journal or in some cases even to know whether
> our current subscriptions gives us the rights to access the e-version. I
> am still waiting on a reply from SLACK Incorporated sent at the end of
> September as to whether we can gain access to the e-versions of some of
> their journals to which we have a current subscription and to enquire
> about their subscription options for 2005. In this case the publisher is
> living up to its name!
>
> We are very unhappy when the only access we have to the electronic version
> is through a username and password. Now one username and password per
> journal is just about tolerable. However, I've just uncovered a journal we
> subscribe to, Physiotherapy Research International, which requires a
> different password for each volume! In order to find the password you have
> to go to the relevant print issue and look on the the bottom of the first
> page. Does this publisher expect our users to take the complete set of the
> printed journal to their desktop when trying to access these titles? This
> does seem to defeat the object of having an electronic version of the
> journal at all! We normally handle usernames and passwords by putting them
> on a secure page where only our users are able to access them - how are we
> expected to handle a username and password for each volume on our system.
> If such obstacles are going to be put in the way of our users and
> ourselves then the electronic versions of such journals just won't be
> used.
>
> I've tried to speak to the publisher, Whurr Publishers Ltd, in order to
> ask why such a requirement exists in the first place. Unfortunately the
> person I needed to speak to wasn't available, so I await their call.
> Surely one can have a single password to access the whole journal online?
> Of course, access via IP would be much better.
>
> Do any other members of this list have any similar cases where the
> electronic version of a journal has been made almost inaccessible to its
> users?
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
>
>
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