I agree with Leslie; the labor involved in providing for password-only access subscriptions isn’t worth the effort for us. Our ever-dwindling print subscriptions that don’t offer site-wide online access are usually affordable popular titles that an individual could subscribe to.

Best,

Jennifer

Jennifer L. van Sickle M.L.S.

Science Librarian and E-Resources Coordinator

Trinity College Library

300 Summit St.

Hartford, CT USA 06106

860-297-2250

Jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum <SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG> On Behalf Of Leslie Burke
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 8:58 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Providing access to email-only digital subscriptions

Call me cranky, but I tend to think that these types of subscriptions would have to be REALLY important to the discipline for me to bother with a really poor publishing & access model. I try not to reward publishers with these unmanageable models. Perhaps their market is really the individual user and that’s why they’ve decided to do things that way. I also have found that those resources get less use and don’t justify their expense – in most cases.

Mini rant over,

Leslie

Leslie D. Burke

Collection Services Librarian, Library

Kalamazoo College

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From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum <SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG> On Behalf Of Mark Winek
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 7:36 PM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Providing access to email-only digital subscriptions

Hi Caitlin,

We've had a similar issue at Georgetown with a serial from Yemen that has started publishing a PDF since the war started. Since they don't have a website, they forward the PDF through our agent.

I don't have a setup like Nancy describes (yet). I store them in Box and put the folder URL in the bib record. The link restricts access to anyone with university single sign-on access.

Best,

Mark Winek

Georgetown University

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 5:09 PM Caitlin Harrington (chrrngt4) <chrrngt4@memphis.edu> wrote:

Greetings,

University of Memphis Libraries subscribes to Campus Law Enforcement Journal, which emails issues number 1-3 as a PDF and prints only issue number 4. We’re currently struggling to provide institutional access to the digital issues for our users. The publisher advises that we print the digital issues ourselves, or store them “in a database of some sort.” I’m wondering if anyone has similar subscriptions, where digital issues are not hosted online and accessed via IP authentication or username and password? If so, how did you provide access for users?

Thanks!

Caitlin

Caitlin Harrington | she/her/hers

Electronic Resources Librarian

Assistant Professor | University Libraries

The University of Memphis
126 Ned R. McWherter Library, 303A
Memphis, TN 38152
901.678.8226 | chrrngt4@memphis.edu

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