Just for info

Edited for length. Will forward their reply once received (they'll only have
been at work for a couple of hours so far since all these sent; from past
experience replies vary from a couple of hours to several days....).

Fiona

-----Original Message-----
From: McLean, Fiona
Sent: 14 December 2001 13:36
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Pubmed access; *more* more info!
Importance: High


Things are progressing rapidly over here....

John Doyle from the NHSnet team at the NHS Information Authority is onto
this. Apparently, there was a very similar incident about a year ago,
involving Highwire Press, which was
quickly resolved.

Whatever the specific situation here, I was very concerned to hear that
access to PubMed has been blocked, rather than to PubMed Central. You have a
specific PMC url so surely can block just that? Also, I hope that next time
you have such concerns you do a bit more checking out before blocking.

But I await your response with interest.

Fiona

-----Original Message-----
From: McLean, Fiona
Sent: 14 December 2001 10:32
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Pubmed access; more info


I have just received the following message which may be important too.

Fiona

'195.99.125.204   is one of the NHS firewall addresses.  It is not
surprising therefore that a lot of people are registered as using
Pubmed through this IP address.

By blocking this IP address pubmed are denying access to a large
proportion of the NHS.


Sarah


Mrs S Massey
Librarian
Illingworth Library
Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Trust
Floor F Stephenson Wing
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TH'

-----Original Message-----
From: McLean, Fiona
Sent: 13 December 2001 22:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: FW: Pubmed access
Importance: High



This is causing lots of concern and debate among UK health librarians (see
messages below- in the UK 'Trusts' are groupings of hospital or community
health services).

I can see that there would be a problem if someone is downloading too much
from PubMed Central.

It would help a lot if you could clarify:
1) what is too much use? It could mean all the content of 5 issues of a
journal, or 100 articles from different journals.. Please let us know.
2) I think some people are confusing PubMed and PubMed Central. Are you
blocking access to PubMed to overusers of PubMed Central? This would cause
huge problems for large groups of UK health professionals in such trusts.

I will forward your clarification to the list.

Thanks!

Fiona McLean
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Mortimer
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 12/13/01 4:44 PM
Subject: Pubmed access

RE: Lack of pubmed access through NHSNet

This is the reply I received from the NLM, regarding Pubmed access (or
lack of it), do we know who is 195.99.125.204??? Incidently Milton
Keynes hospital is affected as well


(full text included to NLM)



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