Hello,
I am new on this list but I agree completely with you about Swets
notifications which can sometimes drive me crazy. The instructions are
difficult to understand and worse than that is I get notifications almost
every week but the access is sometimes not open until a few weeks/months
later. That means I have to keep an eye on the notifications every week and
check if the access is set up or not. This is all very time consuming. The
good thing is that I have a personal contact at Swets here in Sweden but it
is still a very complicated flow. I would also be grateful to hear how
others managed to solve these problems with Swets (or other agents).
Regards,
Katarina Standar
E-journals coordinator for Social Sciences and Law
Dag Hammarskjold Library / Uppsala University Library
Uppsala, Sweden
ph: +46 18 4713351
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Amne: Activating e-journals - Single user access
Hello there,
I'm sure this query / concern has been raised on the list before but I
thought I would check to see if anyone else has found a resolution to
this problem!
We regularly get access notifications from our subscription agent -
Swets - with the details required to activate / register new e-journal
subscriptions. However, when we go through the (often detailed and
complex) instructions, we discover the access is only available for a
single user at either one IP address or with a single user username and
password. We waste quite a bit of time discovering this and it is very
frustrating. Swets do not often supply advice on whether it is a single
user access or not. I suspect that they don't get this information from
publishers / access providers although I am currently waiting for more
information on the process. Clearly the access is often completely
useless to academic institutions if it is.
Has anyone found a way around this? We can find out whether e-access is
free with a print subscription but this is often offered as campus wide
access anyway. We could also stop processing access notifications which
are password authenticated rather than Athens or IP authenticated but
then also providers do make passwords available for campus wide use.
I would be interested to hear if anyone has found a solution to this
problem or if it is something that staff activating e-journal access,
accept.
Many thanks in advance.
Sarah
Sarah Pearson
E-Resources & Serials Coordinator
Information Services
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT
W. Midlands
tel: 0121 414 5825
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