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In reply to Judy Thomas' message: The NESLI Managing Agent does appreciate the problems of trying to get off-campus access via Athens authentication to NESLI electronic journals on or via SwetsnetNavigator, and is working to diminish the problems as much as possible. As Judy has stated, there are two distinct problems: The first is that not all publishers are willing to accept the SwetsNetNavigator (SnN) proxy, and therefore they insist on enforcing IP-address (or their own username/password) validation when the user follows the link from SnN to the full-text on the publisher's server. However several publishers do accept the SnN proxy, and will allow a user who has logged into SnN via Athens to access full-text from their servers without a further authentication challenge. We will continue to try to persuade more publishers to accept the SnN proxy. The second is that a NESLI/SnN URL for a specific journal title currently requires IP-address authentication. If an off-campus user clicks on such a URL, they will get a rejection message and an NESLI/Athens login box, so they can then login to SnN and browse for the required title. We are currently working on an enhancement to this so that the after logging in the user will automatically be positioned in SnN at the specific journal title requested, instead of at the list of journal titles. Once this has been done there will no longer be the need to maintain two URLS (the specific one for on-campus users, and the NESLI login page for off-campus users) for titles in SwetsnetNavigator. --------------------------------- Sean Dunne for the NESLI Managing Agent c/o MIMAS, Manchester Computing, The University of Manchester. tel: 0161 275 6065 fax: 0161 275 6071 [log in to unmask] http://www.nesli.ac.uk/ ---------------------------------