Hi
Users have problems with the login procedure for many various reasons which are mainly caused by the variety of designs of publishers' and service providers' websites.
One particular problem is when they have been IP-authenticated and hence given seamless access to all the journals that we subscribe to for the years that we are entitled to access, BUT they try to access a journal or year of a journal that we are not entitled to access (or that we are entitled to access but is not available to us in error) and up comes a page telling them (if they're lucky) that this is only available to (various wordings...) people who sign in and ......you get my drift.
As an aside, we don't use Athens any longer, but use Shibboleth which has various names on different sites. The worst is Wiley which is not shibbolised but has an 'Institutional login' which is a term used often for shibboleth but in this case is a Wiley-specific login.......
Thanks
Sandra
Sandra Morris
Electronic Information Development Officer
Subject Support & E-Library Team,
Information Services,
Hugh Owen Library,
Aberystwyth University,
Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, SY23 3DZ
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From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alex Birchall
Sent: 16 February 2010 19:45
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Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Sign in via Athens Username/Password appears on journal home pages even though IP-authenticated
Hi,
Is anyone else out there irritated by the misleading "Sign in via Athens
Username/Password", or similar, link that appears on the home pages of
IP-authenticated resources, when further authentication is not required?
If so, has anyone been able to get the link removed by the vendor?
Thank you.
Alexander J Birchall
Library Systems Manager
Middlesex University
The Sheppard Library
The Burroughs
London NW4 4BT
Tel 0208 411 5235
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