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> Providing access to remote users is a priority for the OU Library. We made a
> decision early last year to aggregate as many of our journals as possible on
> Swetsnet Navigator hoping that all the journals that were hosted there would
> be available off campus to our students with Athens authentication but this
> has not been the case. We understand that this is not Swetsnet's fault but
> that publishers are unwilling to allow off-campus via this route. This can
> be very confusing for our students as full text content is marked as being
> available but when they click to get the full text of the article which is
> hosted on the publisher's server, access is denied. The inability to link
> directly to a title for our remote users is also a major problem although I
> know Swetsnet are working on this. We are currently having to maintain 2
> links for all titles hosted on SwetsNet.
>
> We are now moving down the proxy route. Providing off campus access to the
> majority of our "core" journals i.e. those that come free with print, is a
> priority. We have been contacting publishers to get their agreement to the
> system we are developing. Most of the publishers we have contacted have been
> very supportive of this move but justifiably require proof that the system
> we are developing is secure. A very small minority of publishers have
> required us to take out a multi-site license to cover remote access and this
> requires an additional payment.
>
> As Lauren states many US universities use this route. I suppose universities
> in the UK have been hoping that Athens would provide the "solution" but this
> appears not to be the case.
>
> Judy Thomas
>
> Subject Information Specialist for Science
> Open University Library
Donald Orrock
Medical Librarian
Ninewells Hosp. & Medical School
University of Dundee
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