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Hello Satu, This is something that cropped up with us very recently actually and with a few different sites. The "feedback" from the suppliers was that they don't generally cater for institutional subscribers and generally sell to individuals or small businesses. They therefore didn't feel it necessary to consider the type of implications you've mentioned in your email. I too feel very uneasy about effectively dishing out the administrator passwords. I've been logging the details of people who have requested password access although this doesn't provide an effective way of preventing anybody from changing the passwords. Or, worse, transferring the subscription to themselves and asking for a refund! I suppose it could have its advantages. One supplier (remaining nameless) gave us carte-blanche to do with the subscription as we pleased: >>>Once you have access the document and download it, we leave it up to you to >>>use it as you wish e.g. email the file to others or give others the login >>>address and password to use. So, at least they've not got as far as charging astronomical amounts for specific institutional subscriptions yet. I would be interested, along with Satu, to hear other people's opinions and/or suggestions about this. Cheers Jo -----Original Message----- From: S Nieminen [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 13 July 2005 15:10 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: online journals with username and password Hello Listers, I am sure our site is not alone in this: we have just managed to register for one of the many online journals we get "free" with our print subscription. Our e-journals administrative assistant has registered our site and put in her details (name, contact address, number etc.) And, hey presto, her personal details are plastered all over the journal's page for all our users to see. However, we are an institution and not an individual subscriber. We thought we were being clever by altering the registration details by putting in our Library name and university name in the First Name and Last Name boxes. This does fix the problem of an individual's details being displayed. But, the online journal site offers "Edit your details" to all our users. This means any user will be able to alter the username and password for our site. The publisher clearly has not even considered the possibility of an institution wanting to register for free-with-print access. Our example today is "Solicitors Journal". If you have managed to circumvent this problem or, even better, managed to get the publisher alter the way they offer access, could you share the information? This journal is just one of many titles we have this problem with. Thanks Satu Ms Satu Nieminen Electronic Resources Librarian University of Bradford JB Priestley Library Richmond Road Bradford BD7 1DP Tel 01274 233400 Fax 01274 233398 Email [log in to unmask]