Re: Ingentaconnect problems? Toni Fortini 23 Apr 2008 18:50 UTC

Again, I've had the opposite experience: I've asked EBSCO for assistance
with Ingenta registrations (when I started working here in 2006), and it
ended up being a lot easier, simpler, and faster to use Ingenta's site
myself.

I was told that EBSCO would specifically assist with Ingenta
registrations (as it says on the support.ebsco.com site), but it turned
out to be a lot more trouble and a delayed process: they told me the
title was registered when it wasn't, and since 2006 I've done them myself.

-Toni

Toni Fortini
Online Access Assistance Coordinator
Bailey/Howe Library
The University of Vermont
toni.fortini@uvm.edu

Liping Song wrote:
> I've learned to always ask my EBSCO person to help when it comes to
> activating subscriptions at Ingenta. It works faster and that's what
> they're paid to do, as my EBSCO person always tells me. When I
> activate on my own (following their instructions), it never seems to
> work, which leads me to wonder whether my customer code is wrong, but
> this is not the case. Activating new subscriptions used to work a lot
> better in my experience.
>
> Liping
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Liping Song, MA, MTS, MLIS
> Electronic Resources Cataloging and Access Librarian
> Health Sciences Library System
> University of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, PA 15261
> 412-648-3401
> lsong@pitt.edu
>
>
>
>
> Toni Fortini wrote:
>> Andree Rathemacher wrote:
>>> My problem with Ingenta is that each year, for each title (or many,
>>> you're never sure which ones) you have to go back and re-register
>>> your subscription.
>> That's strange, I've never had to do that. Our library has access to
>> about 400 titles through Ingenta, and I've never needed (or been
>> told) to register titles annually.
>>
>> -Toni
>>
>> Toni Fortini
>> Online Access Assistance Coordinator
>> Bailey/Howe Library
>> The University of Vermont
>> toni.fortini@uvm.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> Andree Rathemacher wrote:
>>> If I may add my two cents:
>>>
>>> My problem with Ingenta is that each year, for each title (or many,
>>> you're
>>> never sure which ones) you have to go back and re-register your
>>> subscription. Somehow they don't have good communication with the
>>> publishers
>>> and vendors. After I set up an online journal the first time, I
>>> don't want
>>> to have to do it again every year. In some cases we've been without
>>> access
>>> (that was paid for) for a VERY long time and only heroic efforts by
>>> EBSCO
>>> got the access turned on. I don't entirely avoid Ingenta (though I
>>> may start
>>> to), but I groan when they are the only way to get online content!
>>> It makes
>>> me feel like calling the journal publisher and asking if they've
>>> heard of
>>> HighWire.
>>>
>>> andree
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Barbara Pope <bpope@pittstate.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> No, in my case, Ingenta actually said some of our ip addresses
>>>> belong to a
>>>> different college farther west in Kansas.  I had our systems admin
>>>> check
>>>> this out and verified that they are not.  Despite this, we cannot
>>>> set up an
>>>> account.  I kept getting the same woman by email that kept
>>>> insisting we were
>>>> incorrect.  It is a small number of titles anyway, and I don't see
>>>> much
>>>> point in having that kind of headache.
>>>>
>>>> Barbara Pope
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah D. Tusa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if it has more to do with the "Class" of IP address that
>>>>> they
>>>>> accept.  I'm no 'techie,' but I have run into situations where the IP
>>>>> class is somewhat restrictive, or sometimes there is a specific
>>>>> syntax
>>>>> for entering the IP address(es).
>>>>> Sarah Tusa, Associate Professor
>>>>> Coordinator of Collection Development & Acquisitions
>>>>> Mary & John Gray Library, Lamar University
>>>>> PO Box 10021
>>>>> Beaumont, TX  77710-0021
>>>>>  Ph:   409/880-8125
>>>>> Fax: 409/880-8225
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
>>>>> [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Pope
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:58 AM
>>>>> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>>>>> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Ingentaconnect problems?
>>>>>
>>>>> My problem with Ingenta is not anything to do with connection, but
>>>>> they
>>>>> do not have very good customer service or technical support.  If I
>>>>> try to
>>>>> set up an account with them and enter my ip addresses (which I got
>>>>> from our
>>>>> systems department), they tell me my ip addresses are incorrect
>>>>>
>>>>> and that I have to put in different ones.  It's not as if I typed
>>>>> them
>>>>> in incorrectly.  I copy and paste them from somewhere else.  They
>>>>> are the
>>>>> same ips we use for all of our products, but ingenta says they are
>>>>> wrong.  I
>>>>> eventually gave up and won't even set up online access if it is
>>>>> coming from
>>>>> ingenta.
>>>>>
>>>>> Barbara Pope, MALS
>>>>> Periodicals/Reference Librarian
>>>>> Axe Library
>>>>> Pittsburg State University
>>>>> Pittsburg KS  66762
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>