Dear All

Like many other universities we are struggling with licensing issues for collaborative partners. 

After much investigation, we feel we can only safely allow access to our e-resources if the students are not only registered with us on our database, but are included in the HESES numbers return, which seems to be the full definition of an enrolled student of that university.

The other users, which may or may not be registered on the database, come under the category of affiliated users, and a small number of Additional authorised access can be arranged for some JISC Collections, but the rest will have to be individually negotiated. We have conducted a sample survey of direct requests to publishers/suppliers and the variation in response is wide. Some publishers will agree with no fee as they consider the numbers relatively small. Some will to this for a fee, and a fair number will not even consider, as they are worried about security issues. In other words a time-consuming minefield!

So to date we are not allowing access, but hope to be involved in wider investigations that may solve the problem more efficiently!


Regards
 
Frances
 
Frances Teasdale - BSc (Hons), DipInfSc, MCLIP
LLS Central Services Manager and Head of Collections
 
University for the Creative Arts
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Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] FW: Access to online resources for staff and students at partnering insitutions

Dear Erica,

The JISC Additional authorised user licensing initiative deals with this for JISC collections - where the suppliers agree, institutions can "pay for an upgrade to the Model Licence to cover defined user groups, studying and teaching in Partner Organisations within the UK and overseas".

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Guide-for-Publishers/Additional-authorised-users

Look under 'Pricing and Subscription information' for any JISC resource, eg. for Web of Science it says "Additional Authorised User licences will be supported on a case-by-case basis and Thomson Scientific welcome requests from institutions regarding this provision".

Lindsay Battle


On 23 Jun 2010, at 16:08, Nicole HARRIS wrote:

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> Subject: [lis-e-resources] FW: Access to online resources for staff 
> and students at partnering insitutions
> 
> Hello all
> I've been informed that our institution will increasingly be entering into collaborative arrangements with other institutions both in the UK and overseas.  The students will be registered with Aston University and will receive a username and password from us, but they will be studying on these collaborative courses from within their own institutions (i.e. we're not talking about a separate Aston campus overseas).
> I wondered if anyone else has already been through a similar thing and could give me some advice on how you went about setting up access to online resources for the staff and students at partnering institutions: i.e. did you contact each of your online resource providers to ask them where you stood with regard to licensing? did you manage to set something up for the partner institutions using different permissions within Shibboleth?
> Any information would be gratefully received!
> Many thanks,
> Erica
> 
> 
> Erica Lee
> Information Resources Specialist
> Aston University
> Library and Information Services.
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> 0121 204 4501.
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