Re: Wall Street Journal online Ian Woodward 17 Nov 2006 13:54 UTC
>>However, at least one of our faculty members wasn't satisfied with this, so we also have a subscription to WSJ Interactive on the web.<< One faculty member? Just out of curiosity, why did you not tell him 'no'? IW I. Woodward Serials Office Colgate University Libraries 201L McGregory Hall 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, N.Y. 13346 Ph.: 315-228-7306 Fax: 315-228-7029 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Patricia Thompson Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:44 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Wall Street Journal online At 10:00 PM 11/15/2006, Dana Belcher wrote: >WSJ does not grant institutional online subscriptions. It took me 3 >months of phone calls, emails, and very poor customer service to find >this out. I am probably committing "library e-resource heresy" by sharing this information, but here goes. We have access to WSJ through both Proquest National Newspapers (current) and Proquest Historical Newspapers (past). However, at least one of our faculty members wasn't satisfied with this, so we also have a subscription to WSJ Interactive on the web. No, this is not an institutional subscription. It has an individual username and password. But when I asked the rep about this she told me this was the only kind of subscription they had. In reading the user agreement, it does not specifically say that you can't let someone else use your login info. It only says that "Only one individual may access a Service at the same time using the same user name or password, unless we agree otherwise." The only other caveat is "If you provide someone else with access to your password to a Service, they will have the ability to view information about your account and make changes through the website for the Service." We do have a number of resources that do not use IP recognition, and our usernames and passwords for these are listed on a web page that is not accessible off-campus. We have a note in our catalog records and in the journal portal indicating that the username and password are required, and a link to the password page. It's probably not as "secure" as it could be, but we are a small institution, and we have not had any problems. Well, for a while we used to have people change the password, and so when the next person tried to get in it didn't work. So when they reported it, we would call WSJ and reset the password. (We do not share the answer to the security question.) But that hasn't happened in over a year. Pat Thompson Patricia Thompson Assistant University Librarian for Resource Management Services Jessie Ball duPont Library The University of the South 735 University Ave. Sewanee, TN 37383 931-598-1657 pthompso@sewanee.edu http://library.sewanee.edu/