Dear colleages,
Many thanks to those of you who replied to my email about EZProxy. As
promised, here's a brief summary of the replies:
1) Does your institution use EZProxy?
13 HEIs from the UK and Ireland responded to say they are using EZProxy,
plus 2 US educational organisations. In addition, one UK HEI replied
that they are using an alternative proxy arrangement, one was using a
VPN, and one has used EZProxy in the past and was no longer using it.
2) Who is responsible for installing and maintaining EZProxy - staff
from the IT or from the library service?
Of the 13 UK respondents using EZProxy:
3 said that the IT department was responsible for all installation and
maintenance
5 said it was all handled by library services staff (one of these was a
converged service anyway)
The remainder described mixed responsibilities, generally with
"technical" issues such software and hardware installation and updates
falling to IT staff, and "service" issues such updates of config files
and testing falling to library staff.
Thanks again for the positive and helpful comments,
Frances
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Subject: EZProxy quick poll
Lis-e-journal colleagues,
We are currently in discussions with our IT Services department about a
possible purchase of EZProxy, to enable access to IP-authenticated
resources off-campus. There's a number of e-resources where our users
are clamouring for off-campus access, such as IEEE Computer Science
Digital Library and ACM Digital Library (which was discussed on the list
in December).
I'd like to conduct a quick straw poll, to help our case: any responses
would be much appreciated
1) Does your institution use EZProxy?
2) Who is responsible for installing and maintaining EZProxy - staff
from the IT or from the library service?
If you could reply to me direct, I'll summarise for the list.
I'd also be very interested to hear from anyone who would be willing to
give us their contact details and talk about their experience of
EZProxy, both from the library and the technical side.
Many thanks,
Frances
Frances Machell MCLIP
Hybrid Collections Co-ordinator
Learning and Information Services
MX Building, City Campus North
University of Wolverhampton
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 01902 321965
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