I have to say that following all the problems the community has had with
this collection of journals, I welcome MIT taking this step to safeguard
access through Ingenta.  I trust that the publisher is also looking into
the problems we and other institutions have faced in trying to access
and activate content through the new platform.

And thanks Rebecca for giving clear instructions on what to do in the
event of difficulty.  We will be following this up at Leeds, where we
are currently trying to set up the nine outstanding titles and remove an
account which is not ours, and hopefully others will find the
information useful.

Louise

Louise Cole
Electronic Resources Team Leader
Health Sciences Library
Level 7 Worsley Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT

tel: 0113 34 35502
fax: 0113 34 34381

email: [log in to unmask] 

Co-owner: lis-e-journals

-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rebecca McLeod
Sent: 26 April 2006 22:06
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Announcement from The MIT Press


The MIT Press and our technology partner Atypon are concerned that 
librarians are experiencing difficulties in activating their online 
subscriptions on our new site. Detailed below are the steps needed to 
activate online access. To allow librarians time to activate their 
online access, Ingenta has agreed to extend access to old content 
until June 1, 2006.

We will also be contacting customers directly with this activation 
information.

5 Steps to Activate MIT Press Journals on Atypon:

1. Visit
<http://www.mitpressjournals.org>http://www.mitpressjournals.org

2. Click on the orange button labeled "Activate your Online Access"

3. Select "Individual" or "Institution"

4. You will be asked to register, or log in if you have registered on 
this site before

5. Follow the instructions that appear onscreen.  Your MIT Customer 
number is your "Access Token" (for individuals) or your Activation 
Code (institutions).  Institution Administrators, you will be asked 
to enter your IP(s) during the activation process.

If your institution has multiple accounts, an email notification has 
been sent for each account, requiring you to activate each time. We 
apologize for this inconvenience. We ask librarians who experience 
this problem to contact MIT Press at 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] so that we 
can merge the duplicate accounts.

If librarians experience any access problems, they should contact MIT 
Press at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] and 
provide as much detail as possible so that we can help.


Sincerely,

Rebecca McLeod
Journals Manager
The MIT Press